Posts by LBJsPNS 549 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2023
That was the story with DuMont and Muntz TVs. GE, RCA, Philco and others built quality sets designed to attempt good reception even in fringe areas. Dumont and Muntz concentrated on selling their sets in cities where signals were strong. And yes, they started with aknown working design and clipped components, like you said. Their sets were built to only receive properly in areas with strong signals.
...I doubt anyone here has any idea of the use and abuse these things get. These exhibits are essentially each a prototype that has to stand being pounded on by kids eight hours a day, seven days a week. And exhibit maintenance, being the not glamorous part, is always underfunded. It's amazing that most of them work at all.
"It doesn't sound like the interactive exhibits are products that need to be frequently reconstructed."
These are exhibits that children pound on eight hours a day seven days a week. Things break more regularly than one might assume, particularly when the exhibit is in a traveling exhibition. And there is no traveling exhibit company in the world that will accept second hand equipment. Most won't accept refurbished or B-stock.
What a load of crap. I'm not sure what state you live in, but I would guess it's one of the states of the former Confederacy. I can assure you the state and federal workers in the great Pacific Northwest, despite being understaffed, are hard working and serve the public well.
