Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: What's Heathkit coming to? Heathassembled? Message-ID: <1080@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 08:48:29 EST Article-I.D.: ulysses.1080 Posted: Mon Jan 14 08:48:29 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 01:12:01 EST References: <7180@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 5 Remember that the economics of kits have changed. In the days of tubes and hand-wiring, there was a considerable savings in labor to be had by building a kit. These days, what with automated part placement and wave soldering, final assembly costs comparatively little -- but writing and testing an instruction manual still costs a lot.