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Article #9545Re: HeathKit Catalogue
From: Michael A. Covington
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1991 05:10
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1991 05:10
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Well said, about Heath. It was a nice era in its own way, but technological progress has made kits obsolete. Thankfully, electronic equipment no longer requires painstaking assembly by hand (so you can't save any money by offering to do this yourself). I would like to find one of these ancient Heath oscilloscopes (the very first product they ever marketed; O-1 if I remember right). My first scope was a Heath IO-12 in 1969; I sold it in 1984 and have missed it ever since. I now have another IO-12, but it's not the same; mine was in absolutely pristine condition. Of course I have much better Tektronix and B&K scopes now, but there's nothing like the instrument that first showed me what waves look like.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!athena.cs.uga.edu!mcovingt From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: HeathKit Catalogue Message-ID: <1991Jan17.051057.22484@athena.cs.uga.edu> Date: 17 Jan 91 05:10:57 GMT References: <37.2790F66B@egsgate.fidonet.org> <889@wells.UUCP> <894@wells.UUCP> Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Lines: 12