In article , "Phil Kane"
writes:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:41:41 -0500, Gray Shockley wrote:

If memory serves, Heath didn't throw in the towel, per se.

Zenith bought them out for their computer(s) and terminals and then Zenith
tossed out nearly all of Heath except those items.

Didn't Shlumberger get into the picture before Zenith, or was it
after Zenith?

Memory says that Schlumberger acquired them first, then Zenith.
The Heath-Zenith home appliance/gadget corporate headquarters
moved to someplace else (southeast?) according to what I
remember from the doorbell packages. Zenith quit the TV receiver
manufacture some time ago; they were a close second to
Admiral Corporation, also in the Chicago area.

My first kit was a Heath Q-1.

Mine also, 1951. The CRT in the kit was WW2 surplus, 5BP1,
container still marked with Army lettering. :-)

My first Heathkit was their VTVM (Vacuum-Tube Voltmeter for those
who never played with one). One of the best test instruments of its
time (1950s).

It's still good. My Heath VTVM was purchased in late 1953, shipped
to my battalion mailbox in Tokyo, Japan, while assigned to ADA.
Used it for checking "Hi-Fi" music electronic kits purchased at the
legendary Akihabara district of Tokyo, even then a mecca for
electronics-radios-components covering many square blocks. Mine
traveled with me back to Illinois then California. Slight drift in the
resistor values makes it a tad out of spec now and the rotary switches
will probably never survive another cleaning (oxide build-up on the
rotary contacts has always been a problem with old electronics).
The Heath SB-310 receiver kit, purchased and built two decades
later, has almost useless rotary switch contacts now.

LHA