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Originally posted by TheFLY
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...
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we had like 3-4 heathkits, my dad assembled them all. one of them was like a normal computer for those days... monitor, keyboard and all. the talking ones were a little different tho. about the size of an old xt or something. they were definitely cool. assembling them had to be a nightmare. i can assemble all that stuff and crap... but what i was always jealous of is my dad's ability to resurrect electronic parts that have pieces that are pretty much close to unrecognizable (exploding resistors and that sort), and have it function like new in a couple days. yeah, i can repair electronics, but not like he can. i guess that's why i stick with cars