A good buddy of mine, Frank, had a Heathkit, but I can't remember the exact model. It was his first computer, purchased new as a young man while in the Air Force. It was one of those computer-on-a-board where input was through the on-board pad, or through a terminal connected to the RS-232. He had several add-ons for it, including expanded memory, floppy storage, and several hand-built expansions. I want to say that he got hard up for money and had to sell it about 2 years ago. This wasn't before touching base with someone fairly local that was an engineer for Heathkit back in the day.
My only experience with the brand is through a Zenith 386 box that I purchased from a Goodwill for $15. It has the 386DX-33 CPU and co-processor on a daughter card, which I found quite interesting, as most of my computers from that era feature the chips on-board, while the chip expansions (Make-it-486, etc) often featured chips on daughter cards that would plug into the original ZIF sockets.
That system is currently in a stack of computers that I need to get back around to one of these years and finish restoring, then resell.
