Heathkit????

[Chris Trask]

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Ray A. Allen wrote:

> Heathkit? to some, a way of life, a bygone era back in the golden age
> of Ham radio, the smell of melted solder, one with the bags and bags
> of parts, burning the midnight oil, for days and days, checking and
> re-checking every line of the Assembly book, building the boards looking
> forward to the part of the book that directed the builder to install the
> boards into the empty chassis and so on and so on, for years until
> Heathkit's father The Heath Company, divested itself of the Amateur
> Radio Division.
>
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>
> What is Heathkit?  Everybody probably has a definition...but simply, a
> name of some Ham Radio gear......
>

        It was also the means by which a great number of us learned
electronics by rolling up our sleeves and melting solder, before the
computer came along and turned university electrical engineering
departments into microprocessor programming departments.


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