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Heathkit adverts

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March 1971

Heathkit - Britain's Most Popular Kits

Heathkit was an American company that was originally founded in 1912 as the E. B. Heath Aerial Vehicle Company, an aircraft manufacturer, based in Chicago. This gives Heathkit ...

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December 1976

Another Heathkit Color TV Breakthrough... The world's only computerized TV system

This is a great advert for the space-faring TV-as-furniture model GR-2001 television from Heathkit, the electronics kits and projects company which joined the burgeoning computer ...

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September 1977

The Heathkit H11 Digital Computer

This advert, for Heathkit's H11 microcomputer, was part of an extravangant sixteen page spread in September 1977's Byte - The Small Systems Journal magazine. It introduced the c...

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April 1978

A computer can get awfully bored when it can't communicate!

Heathkit was another of those companies better known for its consumer and technical electronics, but which jumped in to the market opened up by the MITS Altair 8800. This advert...

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August 1978

Now there are at least 102K more reasons to buy the Heathkit H8 - the WH17 Floppy!

This is a straightforward ad from popular electronics-kit manufacturers Heath, trading as Heathkit Computers of Benton Harbor Michigan. Heathkit's H8, an Intel 8080A-based machi...

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December 1978

It SHOULD be a Heathkit Computer System

This is another advert from The Heath Company of Benton Harbour, Michigan - and which traded as Heathkit - for a variety of its micros and peripherals of the day. It's also nice...

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