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. _______________________________________________ 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.
