19 Dec
2008
19 Dec
'08
2:29 a.m.
At 06:19 PM 12/18/2008, Al Kossow wrote:
Draco was in Milwaukee? Interesting!
It's probably in United States Patent 4122395.
http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/4277785.html
Patent says Grafton (northern suburb). PDF manual, including block diagram:
http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/Sherwood.pdf
- John
The earliest
I have seen so far is a
Sherwood FM tuner ca. 1977 that uses an RCA 1802 (e.g.
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/ele/927622156.html).
Bit of trivia. That tuner was designed and built in Milwaukee by a
company that a friend of mine worked for. At the time, several of
his friends built units up from leftovers from the production run.