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[john]

>At 11:56 PM 7/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>> Heath did not go out of business because of a quality issue.It was the
advent of solid state,.........specifically *digital* solid state
........circuitry that eliminated,for all practical purposes,the kit industry.
>
Exactly so....

A quick perusal through Chuck Pensons fine book on the subject
outlines the rise and fall of Heath through the years. Complex, integrated
Complex, integrated digitial circuitry added to the complexity to such and
extent at the kit level, that the business wasnt viable any longer.

In the days of HW101/SB101  there was nothing close
to the cost/performance of a comparable new rig. There was
this added benefit of actually LEARNING something that
came along for free too !

John

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