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From: andrew@hammer.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Clock keeps correct time (really Heathkit)
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Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 15:50:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  3 15:50:08 1986
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>> 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]