From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"mike"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:37:04 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>>"mike"  wrote in message
>>news:9bv263pa7nnrgnl4bsffv9no0qe3no1co0{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>>>He should do a little market research before playing.
>>>
>>> Perhaps he did, and he is not going after the techie/hobbyist market
>>> that you are in, but the larger non-techie market.
>>
>>Todays techie/hobbyist market is tomorrows main stream market..
>
> In some cases, yes.  In some cases, no.  For example, in the 60's and
> early 70's, Heathkit was in a large techie/hobbyist market.  Yet that
> kit-making market never became a mainstream market.
>
> Additionally, *all* mainstream markets do not necessarily start out in
> the techie/hobbyist market.
>
> /m

I would say that yesterday's Heathkit builders are today's Linux OS
implementers - attempting to assemble many disparate parts into one
cohesive usable system and left wondering what this remaining diode was
for.

Some say the advent of the PC helped kill Heathkit ( along with Zenith )
and provided a new avenue for the techie market

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