by Steven LeibsonChas Gilmore joined the Heath Company in 1966 as a design engineer in the company’s Scientific Instruments group. Then he called me up and said, “I’d like you down here for an interview.”By then, we were knee deep in introducing the Heathkit computer line: the H8 and all its family. What had been Heath Computer Systems, the Heath name for the assembled – i.e. And yeah, there were terrible problems for the traditional Heathkit business. The full Heathkit history series on EEJournal:The Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 1: Early DaysThe Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 2: The 1960s through the mid-1970sThe Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 3: The Microcomputer Kit EraThe Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 4: The Demise of HeathkitThe Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 5: Final ThoughtsThe Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 6: And Yet More Final Thoughts