[Mishmash] Whatever Happened To Heathkit?

[William Smyth]

> I sure do miss Heathkit's products.  When I was a teenager, my parents 
> wouldn't let me order them because they were a kit.  But that they were a 
> kit was the whole point.
>
>                                Fred
>

What a shame. I was fortunate enough to be allowed to assemble kits from 
Heath,Allied, Burstein-Applebee, Philmore, Eico and a few others.  Don't 
feel shortchanged because I remember another 15 yro who had to use wirenuts 
because his father wouldn't allow him to use a soldering iron or soldering 
gun when I had been already using them for over three years.

Bill in SC