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About Pieter Hooijmans and Maximus-R&D

• About Pieter Hooijmans
  • Experience
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Hobbies Updated

• Oil painting
• Most recent paintings

Flying New

• Flight impressions
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Early Philips TV History

• Updated and extended
  Piet Hooijmans 1918-2006
  
• 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

The first computers and circuit blocks

• NEW
  Digital computers and Philips circuit blocks
  
• Philips TRANSDECO, the first European all-transistor computer, 1958
  

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
• Philips TV Remote Control history, 1955-1985

The above four chapters are now available as the 1st volume Philips Television Tuners history

• TV tuner history pt4 -
  IC-tuners, frontends and modulators
  1980-1990
• TV tuner history pt5 - Competition and growth
  1990-2000
• TV tuner history pt6 - Silicon, chaos and decline
  2000-2014

Philips Technology History Books

Philips Television Tuners Volume 1 1950-1980
Contains the updated and extended story from the original TV Tuner History pages pt1 to pt3 plus the Remote Control history. Extended with sections on Central Antenna Installations and Cable Networks.