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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
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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)
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