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- From: tomas_e@LINK.Physchem.KTH.SE (Tomas Eriksson)
- Subject: No DATs in US? (was Re: Engineers needed--why?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.222602.12622@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- References: <1992Oct26.004347.13257@access.usask.ca>,<13510039@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:26:02 GMT
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- Sorry 'bout replying to an old one, but...
-
- In article <13510039@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>, stanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Stan Bischof) writes:
- >[On the subject of recordable CD:s]
- >A secondary (and very real) reason why you won't see them for quite
- >awhile is good old Congress. The lobby groups are against any recordable
- >media since it supposedly cuts into their sales. Ask yourself why you
- ^^^
- >can't buy a DAT recorder in the US, while they are readily available
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >in the rest of the world.
-
- Is this actually the case?! And, if so, could this somehow be related to
- the observation earlier in the thread about whether engineers are in
- shortage or not, that there are more lawyers in New York alone than in
- all of Japan? :-)
-
- Tomas
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- Tomas Eriksson tomas_e@physchem.kth.se
- Surface Force Group, Department of Physical Chemistry,
- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
-
- "These latter-day practitioners of surface chemistry reflect a lingering of the
- adventurous spirit of the Enlightment" -- Charles Tanford
-