[sebhc] PCWorld article mention of the H-89.

Mark Garlanger garlanger at gmail.com
Sat Aug 12 23:35:57 CDT 2006


Yea, I was kinda surprised at some of the newer laptops they had in
the top 25. They didn't seem like anything that special. Oh well, it's
just one view of it.

  Mark

On 8/12/06, Erik Klein <lifo at pacbell.net> wrote:
> I'm not particularly impressed with the list myself.
>
> I like the Apple ][, but it's not even the number one greatest PC that Apple
> ever created, more or less the number one of all time.
>
> Some machines on their list don't belong on a top 100 list.
>
> Such are the nature of opinions, I guess.
>
> At least he didn't misquote me. :)
>
>    Erik Klein
>    www.vintage-computer.com
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>    The Vintage Computer Forum
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of
> Mark Garlanger
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 3:26 PM
> To: sebhc
> Subject: [sebhc] PCWorld article mention of the H-89.
>
> With the IBM PC's 25th birthday, PC World has a couple of articles
> about historical PCs. The H89 didn't make their first one: "the 25
> greatest PCs of All Time" But did make the runner-up article "the 25
> near-greatest PCs of All Time".
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126692-page,11-c,systems/article.html
>
> The H-89 was the only Heath computer I saw mentioned in either article.
> ----------
> Heathkit H-89 (1979): When do-it-yourselfers wanted to build gadgets
> in the 1970s, they turned to Heathkit, and this $1800 computer kit
> made assembling your own color TV passé. It ran either H-DOS or CP/M,
> included a 90KB floppy disk drive, and was also sold in fully
> assembled form as the Zenith Z-89.
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