Unbuilt Kit Mania

[Bill Coleman]

On 2/11/01 7:22 AM, Jack Crenshaw at jcrens at EARTHLINK.NET wrote:

>Sounds like someone could start a business just selling kits again.
>Remember Southwest Technical Products? That's all they did.  They worked with
>magazines like Popular Electronics.  Whenever someone came out with a
>build-it
>article, they'd work up a "kit."  What you got was a bag of parts and a
>copy of the
>magazine article; no manual as such.  But it was a great deal, and I
>bought a ton of
>their digital module kits.

I built my first computer from one of their kits. And the terminal that
went with it. Still have both (and they both still work!)



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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