Heathkit TC-3 tube checker - How to use?

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Originally Posted by jeyurkon

Bama used to have all the Heathkit manuals, but had to remove them when Heathkit sold the rights to someone else.

The "shell" of Heath sold the remaining rights - but Heath actually gave away the rights freely in the 1990's. I had a Navy buddy (Gino - yep, he was Italian) that wanted to distribute photocopies of the Heathkit "Hero" robot manuals for a robotics club and was granted a full release from Heathkit to copy and distribute "any out of support" manual. He had a real tough time in getting the letter - Heath was for sale at the time and they wouldn't even respond to his requests. Some time later, after they were sold (for like the second time in three years), he finally obtained his letter, first by fax, and then a hardcopy. This was all pre-1996.

I imagine that whoever bought the rights got the shaft from the shell of Heath that didn't realize that rights had already been given away. Due diligence, perhaps not.

Cheers,