Heath Engineering

[Multi-Volti Devices]

This will probably offend SOMEONE who was a Heath engineer, and there were certainly some
good ones, Terry Perdue being one I can think of, but I have a neighbor who is a retired
Heath engineer (designed MT-1 and MR-1 and worked on SB-300 and maybe 301).

He said early on Heath went out of their way to hire non-degreed engineers...they didn't
like the no-hands-on-experience people they were gettign out of schools, so they got guys
who knew how to build things.

Accounting is another unfortunate wrench in the works...other than capital investment, I
once read that something built by an 'amateur', with the root of the word deriving from
French  for love, implying someone who does something for the love of it, CAN achieve
better results than some commercial gear, because there's nothing to stop the builder
from optimizing for specific goals...they can put as much time and money into the design
as they wish.

Murray

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