[TenTec] Prices

[Rsoifer at aol.com]

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 at weather.net writes

On 4/19/2010 2:38 PM, Rsoifer at 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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