Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: "Young Snot" Zenith Message-ID: <652@orca.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 18:40:14 EST Article-I.D.: orca.652 Posted: Tue Feb 28 18:40:14 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 22:44:24 EST References: <533@sdcsvax.UUCP> <2633@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 17 "Hasn't Zenith been around since long before DEC's founding? Like in the days when "maintenance" was a matter of changing vacuum tubes? I agree that they are a recent entrant into the micro industry, but isn't it reassuring to see that not every successful player in the micro industry has to be a start-up company or named IBM?" The company that sells computers is Zenith Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zenith Radio Corporation. They started up when Zenith bought Heath Company (makers of Heathkits) from Schlumberger, a mining technology concern, in October 1979. Zenith split Heath's computer kit group into two parts, and left one with Heath and made the other into ZDS. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP] (orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]