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From: mflawson@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Michael F Lawson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: US consumer electronics industry
Summary: Is there anything left?
Keywords: Japan, US, industry
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Date: 28 Sep 89 08:23:05 GMT
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I have a few questions maybe some kind soul could respond to.

Does anybody know the latest scoop on US vs Japanese electronics industries?
Are we still losing ground?  I heard that some of the US semiconductor
companies were trying to band together and regain some of the DRAM market.

Are there any US companies which still make consumer electronics whom I can
support?  ( I thought that there was at least one still making TV sets;
was it Magnavox? )  If there are, are the products themselves made in USA
or assembled overseas?

I hope the US still has a good lead in computers.  I was saddened recently
when I discovered that in my supposedly US-made Tandy computer, the disk
drive comes from Sony and the keyboard comes from Fujitsu.  Yuck.  And I
thought I was supporting the US industry.  :-(

Are there any hopes for new upstart US buisnesses to regain any of these
high-tech markets?  Please, someone give me some hope.  1/2 :-(

Thanks for any information,

Mike Lawson
(recently saddened by Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pix)
mflawson@uokmax.uucp