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echo: classic_computer
to: Dan Ceppa
from: Tom Walker
date: 2005-01-25 12:55:00
subject: Hardware MB question

->  TW> Actualy the EDSEL was a Very Fine Car. It was just built for the 
->  TW> Wrong price range for the economy at the time. But with the lead time
->  TW> necessary for a Car line no one could predict the market conditions it
->  TW> would face.

-> That's one of the reasons that the Japanese car companies ate 
-> Detroit's lunch during the "Gas crisis" of the 70's.   

 Well the "Detroit Mentality" helped a bit. The thought in that day was
that NO body is really interested in those "Little Cars" and they pushed
the sales of the Big Gas Hogs becasue they made more money per unit on
them.
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