[GreenKeys] HEATHKIT back in business - QST Dec 2015

[Jeffrey D Angus]

On 11/22/2015 12:05 PM, tony.podrasky wrote:
> I FLEW to the URL. I was, to say, GREATLY DISAPPOINTED that
> all there was is a A-M Radio kit, and some parts (probably dug
> out of storage) from 20-30 years ago...
Don't be so hard on them.
These poor bastards are beating a dead horse.

What made Heathkit work was twofold.
1. You saved on the factory labor of building something.
This was when things were built by hand, and people doing it were paid
a living wage.
2. They sold stuff that was currently marketed. Like the Hi-Fi craze of the
'50s and '60s, and low end versions of test equipment.

Imagine trying to sell an LCD TV or a DVD player "kit" now.

It's NOT the "kids these days." Blame the parents that couldn't be
bothered to teach their kids how to think, to wonder, to work with
their minds and hands.



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Jeff-1.0
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