2 Mar
2022
2 Mar
'22
5:45 a.m.
Replying to Sentrytv:
... I was selling some radio equipment ... Many of the people that I know, who are hams, asked me if this was going to be a hamfest and I said: not exactly ...
It goes both ways: hams were early adopters of home computers starting with the Altair and Imasi. Some pioneered packeteering and slow-scan TV that way. Radio Electronics magazine showcased early D-I-Y computers, competing with Popular Electronics, Nuts And Volts, and Byte. I've attended hamfests and found about 1/4 computer stuff -- jeffj