Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 18:13:01 GMT References: <1991Jun9.183551.3565@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun10.042538.17724@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun12.211858.5727@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 37 jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john cavallino) writes: >In article rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) wri >>I did read a blurb in the Free Press that Apple was building a new assembly >>plant in Colorado because it just cost too damn much to do business in >>California... > >Apple is _buying_ a defunct Data General factory in Boulder CO, because the >price was right and because they are way short on manufacturing capacity to >meet the demand for their products. They are _not_ closing down the Fremont >CA plant or any other plant. The Singapore plant where the Classic and LC are >made runs 24hrs/day and still cannot fill the demand. Go figure. Singapore?! Singapore!? Thats gotta be the dumbest thing they could do. I know I put off buying an second A2000 until the dealer could get me one that said Made in USA on it...I made sure my A3000 said Made in USA on it as well...I would have told them to take a flying leap if they didn't have the label on it! This has just thrown out any options of mine to purchase a cheap Mac...EVERY computer I have here has the USA stamp on it, monitors are another story...I know that they have foreign parts(Or if Ted Turner was here twisting my arm, International parts) in them, but I realize what happens when the jobs leave the country, but final assembly brings the content up... Why did they lay people off then, if they can't make enough? Or did they hire 20% extra help in Singapore to make up for the lost jobs in CA? How many IBM's do you think IBM sells around here, because they got the Made in USA right on the front sticker? Betcha alot, because Uniroyal has nothing but those PS/2 tower units when you walk around their R&D facility in Troy. No cheap foreign made clones...And thats one per desk! Guy told me the only thing the secertaries use them for is word processing... -- C-UseNet V0.42d Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say.