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About Pieter Hooijmans and Maximus-R&D

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Early Philips TV History

• Piet Hooijmans 1918-2006
• MORE NEW STUFF  
  Piet's home-built television or how Philips developed television pt.1, 1936-1950
• How Philips developed television pt.2, 1951-58
• The unique Philips EQ40 and EQ80 nine electrode FM detector valve
  

Philips TV Tuner History

• TV tuner history pt1 - VHF valve tuners 1946-1960
• TV tuner history pt2 - Introduction of UHF 1958-1963
• TV tuner history pt3 -
  Transistors, varicaps and a bit of colour
  1963-1982
• TV tuner history pt4 -
  IC-tuners, frontends and modulators
  1980-1990
• TV tuner history pt5 - Competition and growth
  1990-2000
• NOW ON-LINE!
  TV tuner history pt6 - Silicon, chaos and decline
  2000-2014
  

Hobbies

• Oil painting
• Most recent paintings