DOS, Fortran,Cobal, and NEXT are terms that equate to Galloping Ghost, Reed and Escapements in our hobby...

I remember when Orbit released their, "fully proportional" 5 channel. Unless you knew your way around a soldering iron and built Heathkits, Orbit radios were the cat's ass back then.

Features such as "open gimbals" and multicon connectors were hot selling points in all the publications. Linear output servos and servo "bricks" were big advertising points, too!

We used to pop the servo cases open periodically and clean the wiper pots and check all the solder joints for vibration or stress breaks. Man, them was the days...

Come to think of it, up until they started using synthetics in our fuels, I can't recall ever being constipated, either!

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