wolfson@mot.com (Steve Wolfson) (02/05/91)
Heathkit is still around and there are two or three stores left in the area. A few years ago when Zenith bought them out to get the computer technology the Heathkit part began to diminish a bit, especially since it became cheaper to buy built than the kits. A friend of mine who was an engineer for Zenith Data Systems said that they would pull the key caps off of keyboards that were imported for the "Kit" versions of the PC clones. Since the purchase of ZDS by Group Bulle, the status of Heath may be in doubt, but they are still in Benton Harbor (where the Zenith computers are made as well).
wegeng@arisia.xerox.com (02/07/91)
>A few years ago when Zenith bought them out to get the computer >technology the Heathkit part began to diminish a bit, especially since >it became cheaper to buy built than the kits.... >Since the purchase of ZDS by Group Bulle, the status >of Heath may be in doubt, but they are still in Benton Harbor (where >the Zenith computers are made as well). I received a letter from Heathkit a couple months ago, stating that all of the stores were being converted into strictly computer stores (they store here in Rochester, NY hasn't paid any attention to kits for quite a while). The kit business is now being handled completely via mailorder catalog. Don