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Daniel E. Meyer Company
Daniel Meyer (February 6, 1932 – May 16, 1998) was the founder and president SWTPC, Southwest Technical Products Corporation. He was born in New Braunfels, Texas and raised in San Marcos, Texas where he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1957 from Texas State University–San Marcos, Southwest Texas State. After college he married Helen Wentz, moved to San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio and became a research engineer in the electrical engineering department of Southwest Research Institute. He soon started writing hobbyist articles. The first was in ''Radio News#Popular Electronics and Electronics World, Electronics World'' (May 1960) and later he had a two part cover feature for ''Radio-Electronics'' (October, November 1962). The author is Daniel Meyer, Research Engineer at Southwest Research Institute. Circuit boards could be ordered from Dan's home at 430 Redclift Drive in San Antonio, Texas. The article was continued in the November 1962 issue. The Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SWTPC PreAmp
Southwest Technical Products Corporation, or SWTPC, was an American producer of electronic kits, and later complete computer systems. It was incorporated in 1967 in San Antonio, Texas, succeeding the Daniel E. Meyer Company. In 1990, SWTPC became Point Systems, before ceasing a few years later. History In the 1960s, many hobbyist electronics magazines such as ''Popular Electronics'' and ''Radio-Electronics'' published construction articles, for many of which the author would arrange for a company to provide a kit of parts to build the project. Daniel Meyer published several popular projects and successfully sold parts kits. He soon started selling kits for other authors such as Don Lancaster and Louis Garner. Between 1967 and 1971, SWTPC sold kits for over 50 ''Popular Electronics'' articles. Most of these kits were intended for audio use, such as hi-fi, utility amplifiers, and test equipment such as a function generator based on the Intersil ICL8038. Many of these ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
