[GreenKeys] Teletype (the company) springs

[tony j. podrasky]

Hey Jim et al;

I don't believe that to be peculiar to Teletype.

When I retired from a well-known computer company, they were
producing 123 DIFFERENT types of computers.

That's the computer itself and does not include the different
options that could be installed.

Over the years I became more and more amazed what kind of damage
the marketing people can do to a company if they are not throttled.

The best example being the demise of Oldsmobile:

"We're closing the Oldsmobile division because nobody is buying our cars".

When I was a kid, Oldsmobile cars were held in high esteem by the
dads I knew.

If no one is buying your product, but is buying someone else's, maybe
it's time to look at your product line and compare it to what the other
guy is selling - and make some adjustment - and not say: "we're going
to close our doors because no one wants what we make".

UE,
W6ESE - tony
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Jim Haynes wrote:

> The matter of springs and screws and washers and nuts brings up a
> sort of law that I didn't think of at the time I was working there,
> but did much later.  When you have a factory that can make anything,
> you are very likely to make too many different things.

-- 
Tony J. Podrasky | There is no reason for any individual
                  | to have a computer in their home
                  | -Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment,
                  | Convention of the World Future Society, 1977