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Bill Shields wrote: Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:04 pm just looking to see how many people actually REMEMBER color coded resisters....

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Bill Shields wrote: Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:04 pm just looking to see how many people actually REMEMBER color coded resisters....
Are there bonus points for remembering the color code jingle?
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just the recognition of fellow dinosaurs
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
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Trouble is, half of us who should remember color coded resistors don't remember what we had for breakfast. :(
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I put a Heath Kit TV together in the early 70's, I believe it had many resistors.

When the TV was finished it would not work, so I had one of the brilliant electronic kids at the high school tune it up, he did a great job.

Phil is now a professor at IIT, working on human vision.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/937915
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TLutman wrote: Tue Aug 23, 2022 7:54 pm Try allaboutcircuits forum.
Thanks. Signed up last night!
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Heath kit...ok, again showing my age...without looking it up...what was the first Heath kit?
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
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While I was never fortunate enough to be able to get any heath kits, I would guess a crystal radio. I’m hoping you’re not so old to say you remember the first one as a smoke signal kit at the trading post.
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Nope...
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
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Bill Shields wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 3:00 pm Heath kit...ok, again showing my age...without looking it up...what was the first Heath kit?
"In 1947, Heath introduced its first electronic kit, the O1 oscilloscope that sold for US$50 (equivalent to $607 in 2021) – the price was unbeatable at the time, and the oscilloscope went on to be a huge seller."

I bought and built a 10w stereo amp, which I still have and use for speaker testing (free-air resonance, etc).

Interestingly, in 1962 it came to be owned by Schlumberger, the company that my father worked for from 1976(?) until he retired. I hoped for an employee discount program, but if they had one, I never found out about it.
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That was the first electronic kit, but not the first Heath kit...which was not electronic...

And it appears this was looked up...boo ..
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Ok, I just looked it up. That would be a heck of a kit, too bad Heath died testing it. Reminds me of secondhand lions
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