Kluge Electronics had some interest in television (the 1946 "Radio" Handbook has an ad featuring the TV racks at Kluge Labs, looking neither more nor less of a kluge than anyone else's) and early FM but it either found a very obscure niche to vanish into or failed entirely.
Update: Some kind of a (commercial broadcast?) Kludge transmitter, seen in 2007 by Garett Wollman in Salt Lake City, possibly at the KSL transmitter site. Pity it's not in better shape. Clearly, there's a story to be told about Kluge, though it may be impossible to ferret it out.
Myron, we hardly knew ye.
ReplyDeleteI forget where I was working at the time, but we used these little PC boards with solder pads on them called "Kludge Boards" for prototyping small circuits.
ReplyDeleteThey were blue glass-epoxy, and came in a variety of sizes.
Anybody else remember them?
"To kluge" is a venerable term in computing. Or possibly venal. Can't remember which. But I have done a more than a bit of it in my time.
ReplyDeletedrjim: I've used a number of boards like that, both commercial and homebrew, but never heard them called by that name.
ReplyDeleteMost places I've worked, a kluge usually involved electrical tape.
A proper kluge must involve one or more from the following non-inclusive list: duct tape; sloppy, non-REMed code; bailing wire; blood; black electrical tape (the shiny kind, not the good stuff); a rock; masking tape which will harden to rock-like consistency; a wooden wedge; blobs of solder; glue in place of solder; gum; band-aids; paperclip; cable ties. Any additions?
ReplyDeleteBinder twine should be up there with baling wire.
ReplyDeleteFC: yer absolutely right. Thanks for the addition. My only explanation for having missed it is a gin-and-tonic. Or two. Oh, and just five minutes ago I repurposed two diaper pins. I feel so productive. Yesterday had much solder blobbing due to too much metal and not enough iron (on a non-critical connection).
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