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From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
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Subject: "Young Snot" Zenith / Re: id AA28321; Thu, 23 Feb 84 05:32:59 pst
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Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 18:48:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 27 18:48:57 1984
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In regard to the [paraphrased] line:

    ... DEC still hasn't caught up yet in micro sales
        with that young snot Zenith ...

I hope that the above was primarily in jest, at least with regard
to Zenith.  Yes, DEC's showing has been surprising.
A micro-11 (with UN*X) should have been a world-beater, if timed right.

But "young snot" ?  Hasn't Zenith been around since long before DEC's founding ?
Like in the days when "maintenance" was a matter of changing vacuum tubes ?

I agree that they are a recent entrant into the micro industry,
but isn't it reassuring to see that not every successful player
in the micro industry has to be a start-up company or named IBM ?
Isn't it somewhat depressing that Zenith is the only one
of the old guard American radio & electronics firms, e.g., RCA and GE, 
to be able to learn new tricks on its own, rather than 
having to private-label something designed and built by the Japanese 
(consider VCRs) ?

By the way, I have no connection with Zenith whatsoever.

-- Clay Phipps

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