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From: cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: What's Heathkit coming to? Heathassembled?
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 13:23:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 13:23:42 1985
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>What is Heathkit coming to? Maybe they will be Heathassembled next year.
-- 
>Bill Loeffler

Without making too offensive a digression in net.audio, let me offer
my thoughts on what Heathkit's coming to.

I'm no electronics whiz, but I could hold a soldering iron and follow
Heathkit's excellent kit-building instructions.  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.

Carl Blesch