[Boatanchors] Chinese TOOBS...Epilogue

[mikea]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:36:32AM -0500, Ed Swynar wrote:
> Many thanks to all who took the time to share their experiences with
> Chinese hollow-state devices...much appreciated.
>
> The synopsis seems to be that the very early offerings from
> "...Beijing Inc." were LESS than ideal --- however, the jury
> is still out re. the durability / performance of their latest
> offerings. One note of interest: the current Chinese 211 seems to
> behave every bit as well as anything vintage from the U.S.A., per
> comments from one user...
>
> I guess it's all just a matter of time...I recall as kids we used to
> laugh at anything that was marked "Made In Japan" --- and look at
> what's happened since then...

One of my uncles, a machinist for Sylvania (he made vacuum-tight bellows
out of bar stock, among other interesting things), once asked me if
"Sangamo" was a Japanese brand, back in the early 1960s. He wasn't much
into electronics himself, but knew that lots of folks who _were_ didn't
hold Japanese components and assembled products in a lot of esteem.

My, how things have changed. The Japanese started off as fair-to-middlin' 
copyists, and then developed some truly inspired engineers. 

I don't have any direct experience with either Chinese or Russian glowbuggy
bits, and so have little or nothing of import to say about them. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin