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Originally posted by iroc409
hahah... one of the early computers my dad had that i played on was a small heathkit (well, small for the day). it had a numeric keypad, an alphanumeric led readout, and he taught it t say "follow the yellow brick road". those were great times. that was probably my best guess around 83-85, something like that. been playing with computers ever since.
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Holy shit! Heathkit I remember that. I used to go to the ham radio conventions and they had some really cool robots set up. They had nice catalogs -- you could build just about any electronic device that you wanted to -- just follow the instructions and solder away... I have to admit I was never elite enough to solder my own PC
I bet they are still around -- a couple of years ago I was looking into robots and I think it was Heathkit that had a little circuitboard that you could program on your computer -- attach the thing to your robot and the coded instructions would be saved on flash rom -- so you could build smart robots...