Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 91 18:09:48 GMT References: <1991Jun9.183551.3565@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun10.042538.17724@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun12.211858.5727@midway.uchicago.edu> way.uchicago.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 54 jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: >Quoted from by rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) >> 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 > > Funny. I was told just a few days ago by an IBM employee that a lot > of the PS/2 components are made in Japan. This is IBM in a "foriegn > country", though, so maybe the US models are not the same. I wouldn't be suprised if IBM doesn't make RAM anymore...the Japanese were dumping it here for years...Remember Reagan took action? The Sleeping President was concerned enough to do something about that...What we gotta do is hold these companies accountable for loosing control of the market they created...They should have charged DUMPING way before they lost control of it all...I did get a letter from an Apple employee saying most of the computers they sell are made in the USA...I wrote him back and asked about the classic made in Singapore and how many of those do they bring in, never got an responce... Sixty (60) minutes said Apple uses SONY power supplies, NEC chips, and Motorolla processors build in Malaysia...A real American company trying to use American parts I see.... Its really depressing to see this shit going on...NO ONE will have a job in 10 years..Only the ass****s that sell 'em. And the final nail in the coffin will be Apple being bought up by some Japanese company or just being put out of business by suppliers charging exorbinate rates for chips you can't find elsewhere because they want to sell computers here now, and they will be cheaper and better. If I were to open up this Amiga, i know I will find a backplane assembled in HONG KONG, RAM chips from japan, but they do have some control and manafacture their own custom chips and final assembly was in the USA. Plus the fact that Commodore sells more alot of units in Europe, I would expect a few parts from abroad, expected to find more than I found. Then again, they will have an advantage if the E.C. puts content restrictions on computers like they will on cars...What did the E.C. do? They told Japan they could only bring in x number of cars this year. Where did the rest that they planed to send to Europe go? Here!!! America...The land of one way trade...No where else.... What happened to the auto industry is in store for the computer industry. Over the last 10 years, so much has changed, that they will come in here with something and then cut back on the RAM, or power supplies, or something else they use and put the US companies at a cost disadvantage...I hear it allready happened in the clone market... >*** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz *** -- C-UseNet V0.42e 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.