Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 larry 2/4/84; site hlwpc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!hlexa!hlwpc!cb From: cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: What's Heathkit coming to? Heathassembled? Message-ID: <458@hlwpc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 13:23:42 EST Article-I.D.: hlwpc.458 Posted: Mon Jan 7 13:23:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 03:19:43 EST References: <637@hou5a.UUCP> <196@hjuxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 17 >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