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From: bill@videovax.Tek.COM (William K. McFadden)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radio Shack's bad name
Keywords: Panasonic
Message-ID: <5340@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 88 00:16:02 GMT
References: <17863@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <1549@ssc.UUCP> <2795@kitty.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@videovax.Tek.COM (William K. McFadden)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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In article <2795@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
->	My all time favorite name is "Yahama" instead of the well-known
->"Yamaha".  When I saw such a product advertised at an unbelievable low
->price, I had to reread the copy several times before my eye noticed the
->"catch".

Yeah.  I once had a "Sankyo" cassette deck.  This name was interesting, since
the well-known brand "Sanyo" was not considered all that great, either.
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