Re: Sayonara, good people

[Crash Gordon® <NONE@xxxxxxxx>]

I'll never forget the first hands-on electronics class I took, it was in =
the stock room of Heathkit. I also took ham radio classes there and took =
my first ham license test at the same place.=20

In those days there was basically 3 sources of parts in my area; =
Heathkit, Lafayette Radio and Radio Shaft.

AH...there's nothing like the smell of solder flux in the morning!


"John O" <johno@!noSPAM!heathkit.com> wrote in message =
news:FT1ge.462$Lu6.426@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > It's the same company.  Their educational division has been around =
for
> > something like 30 years.  The consumer products division died, =
presumably
> > due to competitive pressure from RatShak and such.
>=20
> Yep on the first part. The kits went away for lots of reasons, in no
> particular order:
>=20
> component integration
> Zenith Radio Corp (cash drain)
> total lack of creative marketing (catalog or nothing!)
> competition with new hobbies (computers)
> a lack of patience in kit builders (let's splash some solder on here)
> some crappy kits (HW-9, ID-5001, Hero 2000, etc)
> Zenith Data Systems (gov't contracts trumped all else)
> Groupe Bull (owned by the French gov't from 1990 to 1994...need I say =
more?)
>=20
> -John O
>=20
>