BL> There were only two locally-designed colour TV sets in Australia,
BL> Pye and EMI. Every other set was designed overseas. EMI thought the
BL> T-29 was so bad that they paid me as a consultant to do it again for
BL> them. I designed a later version of the Toshiba system for EMI in 1977
BL> and charged them a small fortune, but it never went into production.

Talk about incompetent management, employ the one who stuffed up the first
try comprehensively, to produce what was widely regarded as the worst TV
ever designed, to have another go. Go down the tubes for displaying such
gross management incompetence. Fine by me, survival of the fittest.

BL> EMI closed production in 1978, and bought rebadged Thorn sets.

Pity about the money they would have saved doing that earlier.

BL> By then, Gough's 1974 tariff reduction had made the Australian
BL> electronics industry so efficient that it was located in Japan,

That must explain why all the US and european domestic electronics
manufacture did too. Maybe the sun really does shine out of Goughs arse.

BL> The cruellest cut of all, is that in 1996 we could manufacture TV
BL> profitably in Australia - as long as someone set up an automated
BL> picture tube plant and insisted that all TV and monitors used Oz
BL> tubes. This would save Australia $350M year (10,000 jobs).

Sure Bob, TWICE what ALL the car manufacturing employs. Pull the other one.
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