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Originally Posted by bgadow
Ha! I was just leafing through some old magazine articles (long story short, a technician cut-out, saved & categorized articles from Electronics Technician & other publications) and I spotted an ad for the company that made it, as well as another company with a similiar machine. I guess there had to have been a bunch of these in service throughout the country. Were they any good, really? I would think the training would be the big thing. The one ad said they would come set it up and show you how to use it. A big selling point in the ads was how little space it would take up.
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Wow! Y'know, I was flipping through some old magazines a couple weeks ago and I bet I saw the same ad you did (not the machine in that eBay auction; the one made by a different company), and wondered the same thing..! ...and I wondered if there might be some old TV repair shops out there that actually bought one of those machines and still had it standing idle in a corner someplace. I think it was supposed to take up 4x8 feet of floor space, though. Now I'll have to dig up one of the issues of that magazine (I think it was _PF Reporter_ magazine -- I got a whole *bunch* of those things a few months ago) and check. I agree that the training would probably be the big thing..!