> On Aug 10, 2016, at 4:01 PM, David <davidwh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:55:39 -0400, you wrote: > >> On 8/10/2016 11:31 AM, Nick Sayer via time-nuts wrote: >>> Frankly, I dont know why they didnt make it a GPS clock. That would truly >>> be a worthy successor to the GC-1000. Well, I do suspect I know why > and its not flattering. :) >> >> As I recall ( At 70 my memory is not quite as accurate as it used to be) >> by the time GPS was a main stream reality Heath was well on it's way to >> getting out of the KIT business and was more focused on the educational >> market > > That is how I remember it. The first consumer level handheld GPS > receivers I ran across were the single channel Magellan units after > 1989 and Heathkit was all but dead by then although they did not > officially stop producing kits until 1992. The Heathkit outlet store > was not far from where I lived then and I tracked the progress of > Heathkit by observing its condition. > > Given the cost of the GPS receivers, I can see why a GPS clock did not > become available for some time after that when increasing integration > allowed inexpensive GPS receivers.
What I meant by my remark was that I was surprised that the *new* Heathkit did not put out a GPS clock instead of what they did. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.