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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: HeathKit Catalogue
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.051057.22484@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 05:10:57 GMT
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Well said, about Heath. It was a nice era in its own way, but
technological progress has made kits obsolete. Thankfully, electronic
equipment no longer requires painstaking assembly by hand
(so you can't save any money by offering to do this yourself).

I would like to find one of these ancient Heath oscilloscopes
(the very first product they ever marketed; O-1 if I remember right).
My first scope was a Heath IO-12 in 1969; I sold it in 1984 and have
missed it ever since. I now have another IO-12, but it's not the same;
mine was in absolutely pristine condition. Of course I have much better
Tektronix and B&K scopes now, but there's nothing like the
instrument that first showed me what waves look like.