Heathkit computers

[Bob & Bettina Groh]

Oh, boy.  Now here's something I can chip in on.  I worked at Heathkit
from 1977 to 1981 in the ham radio group and remember my first 'real'
computer - one of the first H-89s off the line.  Before that I had one
of the 6800 Experimenter units with the expander box which I used with a
tape deck for storage/loading programs.  Had to borrow a terminal from
work to use that one!

Eventually wound up with 3 H-89s and 2 Z-100s.  Had a pair of 8" drives
on one of the H-89s for a while.  Eventually bought the first Z-100
(with a whopping 10MB hard drive) and wound up with 3 operating systems
on it (4 partions on the hard drive) - MSDOS, CPM, CPM86.  Had all the
neat software - Cobol, Microsoft Basic, Fortran, SuperCalc, WordStar.
Still have one H-89 and the 2 Z-100s.  All stored away.  Worth, of
course, zip.

Bob Groh, WA2CKY

Dan Veeneman wrote:
>
> I realize that most subscribers on this list are interested in Heathkit's
> amateur radio gear, but I was wondering how many of you have built
> or operated any products from the line of Heathkit computers.  More
> to the point, I'm also interested in how many of you might still have
> such equipment.
>
> I'm looking for an H-11 computer, if anyone has one they'd be
> interested in selling or donating.  The H-8 was somewhat more
> popular, and the H-89 series was quite a bit more common.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
>
> PS  By the way, I'm looking for temperate probes for an ID-1390B
> indoor/outdoor thermometer (Heathkit part number 100-1657) and
> a manual for the same.  A more complete list can be found at
> www.decodesystems.com/wanted.html
>
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