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 x275
andrew@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]