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Originally Posted by drh4683
It's not entirely clear why they went to Japan, but I'm sure cost savings was the main factor and the US plants were not quite ready to produce portable color sets yet.
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I just repaired a Motorola clock radio from 1963. It was made in USA, more or less perhaps, but the radio circuit board was definitely from Japan, with Motorola-branded tubes labeled "Japan" and a Motorola-branded filter capacitor with Japanese-looking print. So, Motorola had an early start with non-U.S. manufacturing besides transistor radios, it seems.
01-25-2016, 01:31 AM
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