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Originally posted by Carmine
I've been to that site too, but it's a shame that it ends at 1954. I wish there were something later, with a little history on the development of remote control, porthole sets, Zenith's reluctance to use printed circuits (good!), late entry to color (except the the Zenith prototype seen on here), Chromacolor, entry into data systems, and the company's sad ending.
Here's another piece of the puzzle... For years I've seen motion lights at Home Depot with the brand Heathkit/Zenith, yet the "Zenith" is a different logo than the lightning bolt, or that stupid lowercase "z e n i t h" that means "disposable slave labor junk".
Heathkit, got any ideas here?
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Good points and questions. Am not sure but after Zenith bought Heathkit I believe that for whatever reason Heathkit was either split in two or a subsidiary named "Heath" was formed.
I suspect that "Heath" division is what we see on end user retail products. The Heathkit company still survives but is only in the educational field (electronics and networking mostly) and offers no kits whatsoever (except for materials directly related to their courses)
http://heathkit.com/
In case you missed an earlier post of mine, my family is from Chicago and some of them worked for Zenith back in the late 50's and 60's. Isn't it interesting to think back on how Chicago was once the Silicon Valley of it's time? Few know that today.
Anthony (a fellow Paisan? Crazy Calabrase here)