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- From: rfc@allegra.att.com (Robert F Casey)
- Subject: Blame Elvis for Japan's competitiveness
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.050258.11100@gagme.chi.il.us>
- Originator: wdp@gagme
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- Sender: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:02:58 GMT
- Approved: rrb@airwaves.chi.il.us
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- An article in the Nov 26, 1992 _Science News_ with the above title,
- page 383, asserts that Japan's success in electronics started, not
- in the past 15 years, but back in the '50s. Portable radios (what
- people called "transistors") was their start, and the rock and roll
- revolution created a big demand.
- The article says that an American company tried and failed to make
- money making transistor portable radios in 1955. The Japanese 3
- years later made shirt pocket sized radios, when rock and roll was getting
- big. Many teens were using the radios to listen to new rock
- only radio stations. Article concludes that the Japanese lucked out in
- their timing to market.
- Archaeologist Michael Schiffer of the University of Arizona based
- the above on research done by studying industry newsletters, tech
- journals, service bulletins (all of this era) and also looking
- at about 200 radio innards from the 50s.
- He also read material on radio and its role in American culture.
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