It's the Journey - Atari 2600

[ed]

So for me, I like to use old technology, 70's point and shoot cameras and the like. It's fun. I shot this with a Panasonic GS400 miniDV camcorder. I think you had one of these too Mom. I think it may the best consumer miniDV camcorder ever made (3 CCDs and 4MB camera!).

I found my Atari 2600 console and games while cleaning out the basement this year. Have been having fun re-learning how to play these games. You can see my Covid hair at the end. I haven't had a haircut in a year; about 4 more inches until I get to my high school length

[Dave McElderry]

Don't know about anyone else, but I still have my Panny GS400 and a lot of old tapes. It's as close as you can get to HD quality in an SD camcorder. You got me to thinking about the Heathkit Pong game that I built. I'm pretty sure that it's in the attic somewhere. Hmmmm...I wonder if it still works.

[ed]

You should definitely pull that pong game out Dave. HealthKit was so cool back in the day.

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[sidd finch]

I remember when pong was all the rage and I was wondering how advanced electronics had come.... I was a few years off. Heathkit stuff was always really cool.

Sidd

[Peru]

Heathkit stuff was always really cool.
Sidd

It appears that they are still in business:
https://shop.heathkit.com/shop/page/2

I remember being given one of their TVs that was already built. It had pull out drawers to access the modular circuit boards.

[Chris B]

I remember when pong was all the rage and I was wondering how advanced electronics had come

We've come a long way from pong...

[Bob]

That site doesn't look like it's very active.

I always wanted to build one of those Heathkit TVs, but couldn't afford it at the time. By the time I could afford it, Heathkit was gone. I did build other Heathkits though including an Oscilloscope and a TV alignment signal generator and other test equipment. I used the oscilloscope many years before it died. I built a couple of Eico kits too, but Heathkit made much better kits. Heathkit had a retail store in Downtown Los Angeles at the time and I preferred to go there to buy my kits in person and look at the new kits. It was a sad day when they went out of business.

[Dave McElderry]

I actually did build a Heathkit TV (and many other Heathkit products). It was probably the most challenging thing I've ever done. I remember part way through thinking "What have I gotten myself into, and what if this expensive investment doesn't work when I finish?" But amazingly it did work, and lasted many years until it was time to purchase something more current. I also built a monster 200W rms (in those days there wasn't so much false advertising re amplifier power ratings) per channel audio power amplifier. What a beast - must have weighed 80 lbs. It did a great job for me in my audio system for a lot of years. It's also still in the attic.

[ed]

There was a Heathkit store in Rockville MD. I used to go there and window shop all the time. Back then I was just out of university and poor.

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[Peru]

I built a couple of Eico kits too

I still have an Eico VTVM and a signal generator that was given to me over 40 years ago.

[momoffduty]

I sold the Atari at a yard sale. Still have the kid's "Nut-tendo" and a Banjo Kazooie game. No Panasonic, but I still have the Sony DCR-TV18 and tapes. My new computer I had built I asked for a firewire just in case I want to grab old tapes from the Sony or the 2 Canon camcorders.

[sidd finch]

I kept an older computer specifically because it had a firewire connection. I have boxes of old tapes but I am not sure I am ready to climb that mountain yet.

Sidd

[ed]

For my MacBook I bought a cable adapter for FireWire then another adapter that fits in that adapter. I use an app named LifeFlix DV Importer to import the tapes. Now that I have the old Panasonic out I might use it a little bit.