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From: khg@neabbs.UUCP (KING.HAN GAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BULLEish on Zenith Data Systems
Message-ID: <226856@neabbs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 89 03:28:58 GMT
Organization: NEABBS multi-line BBS +31-20-717666 (13x), Amsterdam, Holland
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Zenith's computer division was bought up by Groupe Bull, a french
company which also owns Honeywell (or at least part of it). Strangely
enough, Bull's corporate logo is a green tree.
Bull is now Europe's largest computer company.
Apparantly Zenith wanted to concentrate on TV's, especially Hi Def TV.
Zenith is by now the last (major) US maker of TV's.
 
I can't really understand why they did this. Zenith's TV division's
been losing money for years (selling the computers has now wiped out
their debt). But Japanese and European manufacturers already have
working HDTV and Zenith still has to develop theirs. I should think
their *too late* for HDTV.
The first HDTV satellites are alredy in the sky (over Japan), In
Europe HDTV studios are already in use and the Olympic Games in Spain
(1992) will be broadcast in HDTV (at least in Europe).
 
In the US, HDTV hasn't even started ...
 
King Han Gan - Rotterdam, The Netherlands