chris@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad) (09/26/86)
bam@bigbang.UUCP (Bret A. Marquis) says: >Heathkit offers such a beasty as well. 250 in kit form and about >400 ready to go.. Can someone please email to me the address of Heathkit? Or better yet, how do I get my hands on one of their catalogues? As an aside, how good are their products? -- Chris Grevstad {sdcsvax,hplabs}!sdcrdcf!psivax!nrcvax!chris ihnp4!nrcvax!chris "Plan? There ain't no plan."
andrew@hammer.UUCP (10/03/86)
>> Heathkit offers such a beasty as well. 250 in kit form and about >> 400 ready to go.. > Can someone please email to me the address of Heathkit? Or better yet, > how do I get my hands on one of their catalogues? Drop them a line at Heath Company Hilltop Road St Joseph, Michigan 49085 and they'll send you a mail-order catalog. WARNING. Don't go to a Heathkit store for a catalog. The store catalogs are different, and some of the prices are higher than those in the mail-order catalog. (Or at least they were in 1980.) > As an aside, how good are their products? I used to work at Heath. Some of their stuff is excellent, really top-notch, like the old H19 computer terminal. Some of their stuff is absolutely awful, like the old H9 computer terminal. There's no pattern to it. With regard to the clock, I heard that it worked pretty well if you arrange things so that it continuously receives the time broadcast, but that it's poor at maintaining the time-of-day when that broadcast fades. This is third-hand information and not very reliable. -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA]