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This is one of the ones I passed on as a kid. I had the 64-in-1, he 100-in-1, and the 150-in-1, and loved them. That one did nothing for me.
Awsome restoration.
❤Fran. I run into old stuff today while working, what I do take a picture of it with my Camera. Then, I can look at it, but don’t collect it. Yea, after a while, you have so much stuff and then. It happens.. Downey California
You fixed it cool
I was a nerdy kid who got one of these for Xmas one year. I was initially super excited. But the thing has no electronic components AT ALL! It's just a bunch of slide switches, light bulbs and a battery. You'd wire up some tedious circuit, play with the "program" for maybe 2 minutes and that's that. Underwhelming in the extreme.
An electronics kit without any electronics!
All of the work! None of the fun!
I had one of these back in the day, somewhere around age 7. I think it was the only x-in-1 kit we returned – and my family bought me a bunch of 'em! I guess I wasn't up to the challenge just yet.
Fun video tho'. It woke up a few stray brain cells worth of memories I didn't know I still had floating around up there. Thank you!
The light bulb socket are pretty much the same size for night light bulbs
Well done!
You even mentioned the obvious: "Why not use LED's"? Hate to say it, but with the way I love to upgrade old electronics, I would have done LED's and probably replaced the "C" batteries with a AA holder.
Yeah, have to agree: It doesn't even teach electronics. The conclusion: Tandy made crap back in the 70's.
Wow quite a gulf between promise and reality! But they really put such a lot of effort into the instructions to try to convince you there was some value! Even my first electronic kit in about 1973 had a few transistors, discrete components and exciting things like a buzzer, lights, moisture sensor and photoelectric cell (Philips Radionic X40 kit).
those old project kits are a good source of transitors and stuff
I vividly recall seeing that and similar kits in Radioshack catalogs, especially around Christmas time.