Heathkit H8's, H9's and H-11's

Robert Armstrong wrote: Does anybody know how long they sold H-11's? I remember drooling over it when I saw the ad I think in BYTE, but I remember the H-8 had the write up but very little other than 8080/8086 ever seemed to have more than a passing glance with that magazine. The H-11 was offered from 1977 (when Heath entered the computer business) until about 1981 or 1982 ... I don't remember the exact date. While the hardware was nice if you liked DEC architecture (it was just a standard LSI-11 made by DEC), it was a terrible system for a computer hobbyist at the time. There was very little software, and both the hardware and the software was expensive. Although I didn't introduce the H-11 and by the time I took over was only trying to sell off our inventory, I felt guilty for offering the system, because I knew that almost everyone who bought it was making a several thousand (1970's) dollar mistake.