Larry wrote:
"Doug" wrote in
ink.net:


Thought you might be interested to know that the owner, long since
retired, of my employer, is Rodgers Jenkins, the founder of Rodgers
Organ, a Tektronixs spin off. See www.rodgersmarine.com for a company
histroy. 73
Doug K7ABX CTMCS USN (Retired)



That is cool, Doug. There are a few Rodgers around Charleston, left by a
little dealer that started up with way too much stock, way too little
capital and way too few buyers. He left a few of them and I think he's
still coming to service them, but not sure any more. I rarely get to fix
one. Hell, any more I rarely get to fix ANY! The business has gone all
to hell. I've spent this week rebuilding a computer network for a real
estate office, cleaning the internet's excrement off their computers and
making it so copy-protected, damnable Windows XP can be force-fed, even
when it doesn't want to, so they can go about their business, unimpeded
by the billionaire from Redmond....(c;

Rodgers made nice organs, but the prices put them in the ALLEN class
without the lifetime Allen support, which also did in several more
bigshot organ companies. Allen's still got parts for their 1962
model...in stock for shipment, immediately. UNfortunately, they won't
ship them to ME to make the customers happy, trying to force them to get
service from the overloaded dealer's boy at $25 more an hour....

Larry W4CSC ET1...1964-1969...
But you haven't really lived until you sit in the balcony of a 4000 seat
theatre listening to a beautiful 3/15 Wurlitzer that you just spent 3
years restoring.
krj