Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!mako!jans From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: What's Heathkit coming to? Heathassembled? Message-ID: <502@mako.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 12:31:26 EST Article-I.D.: mako.502 Posted: Tue Jan 8 12:31:26 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 22:34:42 EST References: <637@hou5a.UUCP> <196@hjuxa.UUCP> <458@hlwpc.UUCP> Reply-To: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 20 In article <458@hlwpc.UUCP> cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) writes: >Ten years ago, Heathkit represented a way for me to get a particular >electronic item (e.g. stereo) at a price well under a similar assembled item, >or to get an item that didn't exist in the outside world (e.g. digital clock >-- Heathkit had one long before you could find them in the department >stores). Now, kits offer no savings, and items that were once unique to >Heathkit are now everywhere in the general market. Hmmm... Let's thumb through the latest Heath catalog... A robot for under $600... A National Bureau of Standards linked digital clock for $250... A computerized weather station for $400... Solar energy kits, audio spectrum analyzer, computer interfaced ham radio equipment, hand-held frequency counter, a line of test equipment under $50 each, video fish finder, computer and electronics training courses, IBM compatible computers... Yup, you're right. Why just the other day I saw all these things in K-Mart. (Or perhaps technology is passing you by. Let's move this to net.followup) -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::