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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!emory!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!olivea!sgigate!odin!eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com!mikey
  2. From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
  4. Subject: Re: Proton update
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.203325.18919@odin.corp.sgi.com>
  6. Date: 16 Nov 92 20:33:25 GMT
  7. References: <Bxs4Cq.2CI@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  8. Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News)
  9. Reply-To: mikey@sgi.com
  10. Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
  11. Lines: 17
  12. Nntp-Posting-Host: eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com
  13.  
  14. In article <Bxs4Cq.2CI@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jsc52962@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey S. Curtis) writes:
  15. |> I just called Crutchfield hoping to get some information on Proton, and
  16. |> boy did I ever.  Here's the scoop: Proton is dropping their car audio
  17. |> line, which is why Crutchfield is carrying their equipment at such low
  18. |> prices.
  19.  
  20. I think it's worse that that.  I was at the Good Guy's, a local
  21. electronics store chain, and noticed that they stopped carrying
  22. Proton's high-end televisions.  The salesman said that they stopped
  23. carrying Proton video because they though Proton was in the process of
  24. going out of business.  He said that Proton has already discontinued
  25. their audio line (presumably, this included car and home) and that they
  26. figured video wasn't far behind.
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  29.                  Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
  30.                mikey@sgi.com           415/390-1786
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