Plywood from China

[LD]

They find it cheaper, because the workers are Subsidized by Canadian Taxpayers.

[notbob]

Uhmmm.... you got it wrong. We did the innovation in electronics and new products. Japan innovated in production and marketing.

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[J. Clarke]

Which American manufacturer produced millions of transistor radios? The first company to sell more than half a million transistor radios was Sony and when I was a kid in the '60s I _never_ saw an American branded transistor radio on the shelf or in anyone's hand.

[Larry Blanchard]

IIRC, the Univac SS-80/90 came out about the same time. Remember excess

5 alphanumerics?

[J. Clarke]

What do Univac computers have to do with consumer electronics?

[jo4hn]

They were the personal computers of the day, viz. your job took up the entire machine. :-) mr. Burroughs E101 jo4hn

[Robatoy]

Bullshit.

[Stuart]

Just like GEC/Marconi in the UK.

All that's left now is a little outfit called Telent and the other remaining bits are part of Ericsson.

[Stuart]

And copying - at least in the early days.

[Stuart]

Yeh but get this - the workers /are/ the taxpayers!

[HeyBub]

Yep. Like the chap who had the equivalent of a perpetual motion business:

Cat/mice farming.

He'd feed the mice to the cats and the cat carcasses to the mice. In between, he'd harvest the cat fur.

Admittedly, in this metaphor, I'm not sure who the worker or tax-payer is.

[clare]

To a lesser extent than the Americans at this point in time.

[clare]

Actually LOTS of "American Brand" - but precious few "American Made"

[clare]

Durn right.

[clare]

And we're taxed heavier than the Yanks too.

[Bob Martin]

There used to be a saying in Britain that went something like "the British invent it, the Americans manufacture it and the Japanese copy it and sell it for sixpence"

[CW]

You mean the Canadians have figured out a way to pay themselves?

[LD]

You never had a US Made Zenith or Motorola transistor radio?

[LD]

I Owned some. Zenith and Motorola. Oh, and Bulova. DAGS

[LD]

DAGS Lots were American Made.