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I think the rot set in when corporations en masse started worshipping the cost accountants & stock analysts, decided that a good 6-months earnings report was more important than making quality PRODUCT. Then some bright cost accountant decreed that "Our Widgets can be made 25-30% cheaper" in (insert name of bugaboo country here) & you have the situation today. There is no way RCA, w/their vast research & development resources, should have been beaten by a poor compny like Sony-but that's what happened. Imagine the world if RCA or Zenith had had the foresight to come out w/a transistor set like the 8-301 Siony in 1960- there might be a domestic home electronics industry here. And Lucky-Goldstar would have their hind ends kicked back to Korea where they belong. -Sandy G.
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