He had a background desiging and building television equipment, including
the first for its time, an under $10,000 digital time base corrector. With
that, he could have done a real computer, but I don't know or can understand
what heath did. I think he was there just a few years.
Bill
From: Moose [mailto:olymoose@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 9:59 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] iPhone et al
On 11/1/2010 3:09 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> Moose scribbled:
>
> The PCXT clone? I built one of those and still have it in my basement next
> to the Apple II+. No idea if either would
> work if I hooked it up. I also made one of the much earlier Heathkit
analog
> computers, a very different sort of thing.
>
> Don't know, I was totally uninterested in computers at this time. Really,
> still am, except as a tool. This would have been in the mid to late
> seventies, if that helps. He later went to Bally to work with electronic
> gaming. Havent heard anything out of him in many many years.
The PC XT came out in '83, and the Heath/Zenith kit later, so he must have
built a HeathKit EC-1 (Electronic Computer
1). <http://www.oldcomputermuseum.com/heathkit_ec1.html> I think I built on
in '66 or '67, but I'm pretty sure they
were discontinued before 1970. I've never met anyone else who has even seen
one, let alone built one.
Moose
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