[Milsurplus] HP 200D oscillator on PBS TV

[J. Forster]

ARS is generally clueless on tech items. It was a nice clean box, but It
looked later than 1939. It had a post war look, IMO.

-John

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> 200A  is  first model  200b is  fantasia  model   who cares about any of
> the others! <GRIN>
>
> Ed#
>
> In a message dated 12/26/2011 7:46:54 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> radioman390 at cs.com writes:
>
> PBS's?  "Antiques Roadshow" (another substanceless TV show funded by our
> tax dollars)  had just now, an HPD 200D audio oscillator signed by
> Messers.
> Hewett and  Packard in what appears to be magic marker (making the
> signatures
> suspect) as  the first 200 came out in 1939, was just appraised at around
> $2K, but because  of the signatures the appraiser thought it was worth
> over
> $10K. Ha!
>
> I  just happened to notice it as I was channel surfing, and I didn't
> really
> pay a  lot of attention, but that's the gist of what I thought I heard.
>
> Do I  hear a mad rush to eBay?
>
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