I was working at Collins Radio in Cedar Rapids when that happened. Art
kept dumping money into the computer business, but was always behind the
curve technically. He might even have been able to sell some smaller
systems, but he wouldn't let anyone do that and kept chasing the big
systems
At the 1961 Quad City ARC W9YCR Hamfest, a Gonset G-76 transceiver was
the main prize and won by a non-licensed teenage lad who found himself
under siege from a dozen or more older hams wanting to keep it in
licensed hands before he even got it to his dad's car.
Art Collins was forced to
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