Dwane Craps writes:
Back when I got out of the Army, color televisions were pretty much a luxury item. I took a correspondence course on television servicing that included building a Heathkit 25 inch color television. Paid for by the GI Bill.
It's not well remembered these days, but a lot of TV and radio and computer kits were marketed as educational items, qualifying for government funding for veterans. But if you read the ads in Popular Science and Popular Electronics and other hobby magazines of the era, you'll see ads that market in just that way. And, one could make a living as a TV/Radio service-person in the era, even set up their own business. So it all worked. Regards, Herb Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT comcast DOT net