I had a Heathkit. Lots of fun using those spring clips to wire up the various components. My first PC was a Heath/Zenith Z-100, dual cpu and OS, ran both DOS and CPM. Yup, I'm a dinosaur. --- Michael Carnes <MichaelCarnes@earthlink.net> wrote:
It's just more fun to build stuff yourself although not often cheaper... B)
Anybody remember Heathkit? They used to sell well-documented kits for all sorts of electronics. You could often save a bundle on various types of gear by spending a few nights with a kit. Back around 1980 or so, I built a VT-52 compatible computer monitor and the kit cost me ONLY $900. Heath even had a kit to build a PDP-11/01 computer. Pretty serious hardware. Boy did I drool over that one. Most of their stuff was radios, audio gear and such. But when the Japanese perfected high-quality mass production, the finished goods cost substantially less than the kits. Bye bye Heathkit. Pity. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com
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