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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
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Posted: Tue Feb 28 18:40:14 1984
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	"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]