[GreenKeys] HEATHKIT back in business - QST Dec 2015

[Virgil Bierschwale]

I would like to see a modern day hw-101 or whatever it was called


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Jones, Douglas W
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2015 2:24 PM
To: Jeffrey D Angus; greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] HEATHKIT back in business - QST Dec 2015

From: Jeffrey D Angus [jdangus at att.net] Sunday, November 22, 2015 2:14 PM

> 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.

Well, for a reasonable price (quite low compare to buying it off-the-shelf)
you can get a laptop computer kit that looks like it might be quite fun.
Even comes with a proto-board where you can play with LEDs and other
auxiliary hardware:
--
http://www.cnet.com/news/pi-top-the-3d-printable-raspberry-pi-laptop-anyone-
can-build/#!

This seems to be very much in the spirit of the Heathkit of yore.  Of
course, I say this as a current user of a Tektronix 321 scope from the early
1960s ($5 at surplus 20 years ago), and two radio-shack analog VOMs from the
1970s.  Who needs new stuff when the old stuff lasts forever?

           Doug Jones
           jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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