{"id":105,"date":"2006-03-27T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2006-07-28T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T23:58:14","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-perfect-heathkit-robotic-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/105\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-perfect-heathkit-robotic-family","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> The Perfect Heathkit Robotic Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/heathkit_family_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/heathkit_family_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Perfect Heathkit Robotic Family\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\"><strong>Flash back to 1986:<\/strong>  &#8220;Is your family life not quite how you&#8217;d like it to be?  Does your husband stay late at work and seem ungrateful? Does your wife refuse to clean the house and make you dinner?  Are your kids too gross, squishy and organic?  Well worry no longer, because now you can buy and build your own <em>Heathkit RoboFamily Plus<\/em> (GD-9920) for only $2999.95 plus shipping!  <em>(Important Note: The &#8216;RoboFamily Plus&#8217; comes pre-programmed to buy Heathkit products and demonstrate them frequently, thoroughly, and repeatedly, so do not be alarmed if you witness this behavior.)<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Scan from a 1986 Heathkit Catalog.]<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash back to 1986: &#8220;Is your family life not quite how you&#8217;d like it to be? Does your husband stay late at work and seem ungrateful? Does your wife refuse to clean the house and make you dinner? Are your kids too gross, squishy and organic? Well worry no longer, because now you can buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}