Hi Jerry,
You're right, that computer stuff wound up wrecking the company
financially. Not the first company to suffer that fate, nor the last.
Meanwhile,
the KWM-2 that I bought in 1962 still works. I wonder if my O II will still
work when it's 48 years old. May we both be around to find out.
73 Ray W2RS
In a message dated 4/19/2010 9:06:22 P.M. GMT Standard Time,
geraldj@weather.net writes
On 4/19/2010 2:38 PM, Rsoifer@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As a relief from all this serious stuff on the T-T reflector, if you're
as
> old as I am you may remember that when Collins brought out the KWM-2 in
> 1959, it was priced at $1150 excluding mic and power supply. According
to the
> Bureau of Labor Statistics web site, CPI inflation would bring that to
> $8600 today, or just about double the base price of the Orion II.
>
> Of course, Collins had no problems with firmware :-)
Not in that product, but Art dumped too much into a message routing
computer design over the next decade and a half that he lost control of
the company, having to sell to Rockwell because the banks wouldn't loan
him any more money for anything. Rockwell bought the company for the
price of one year's gross sales. Cheap for a high tech company.
>
> 73 Ray W2RS
>
>
73, Jerry, K0CQ
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