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Old 09-19-2007, 02:11 PM
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Default RE: Some early digital proportional history

Been in and out of the hobby more than a couple of times and appreciate this thread. Remember the R/C Buyers Guide whose front cover had pictures of the various (about a dozen) digital transmitters offered at the time?
Am curious as to what digital kits were available. A flying buddy had the Digitrio, another built the first Heathkit with the large brick receiver and I chose the Cannon 5 channel kit which had the smaller receiver (same size as the Kraft Gold Medal). A good friend rekindled my interest (he built a couple of Heathkits) but I decided on the Ace Silver Seven and eventually got a second set, both with the red vinyl TX case. The first kit had a bad TX IC which Ace promptly replaced but they wanted the defective IC returned. I recall the M. A. N. magazine construction articles, World Engines offered the Blue Max kits later, but am not sure about the Royal kits. Any others?