tjt@kobold.UUCP (02/28/84)
To be fair, Zenith got into the micro industry by buying out Heathkit
and private-labeling first the H89 and now the H-100 (the Zenith
versions are only sold fully assembled) as the Z89 and Z-100.
This doesn't quit seem to be a matter of Zenith learning new tricks on
its own. Heathkit did the learning for them.
--
Tom Teixeira, Massachusetts Computer Corporation. Westford MA
...!{ihnp4,harpo,decvax}!masscomp!tjt (617) 692-6200 x275andrew@orca.UUCP (02/29/84)
"Hasn't Zenith been around since long before DEC's founding?
Like in the days when "maintenance" was a matter of changing
vacuum tubes? I agree that they are a recent entrant into the
micro industry, but isn't it reassuring to see that not every
successful player in the micro industry has to be a start-up
company or named IBM?"
The company that sells computers is Zenith Data Systems, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Zenith Radio Corporation. They started up when Zenith
bought Heath Company (makers of Heathkits) from Schlumberger, a mining
technology concern, in October 1979. Zenith split Heath's computer kit
group into two parts, and left one with Heath and made the other into
ZDS.
-- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP]
(orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]