Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!fortune!phipps From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: "Young Snot" Zenith / Re: id AA28321; Thu, 23 Feb 84 05:32:59 pst Message-ID: <2633@fortune.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 18:48:57 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2633 Posted: Mon Feb 27 18:48:57 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Feb-84 13:29:49 EST References: <533@sdcsvax.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 29 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 -- {allegra,amd70,cbosgd,dsd,floyd,harpo,hpda,ihnp4, megatest,nsc,oliveb,sri-unix,twg,varian,VisiA,wdl1} !fortune!phipps