RE: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...)

1999-12-15 Thread Simon Mackay
==BEGIN QUOTE= My impression was that they had gone the way of the Fisher brand name --a brand that used to make high quality stuff, but through the years either made shoddy equipment, had bad luck with a line of products, or some other event that basically tarnished the bra

Re: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...)

1999-12-15 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I haven't heard the brand name "Casio" in years. I thought they had gone > out of business. My impression was that they had gone the way of the > Fisher brand name --a brand that used to make high quality stuff, but > through the years either made shoddy equipment,

Re: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...)

1999-12-14 Thread PrinceGaz
neone.net/~princegaz/ ICQ: 36892193 - Original Message - From: "Wei Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 14 December 1999 17:22 Subject: RE: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...) > > > Perhaps you need to get out more ;-)

RE: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...)

1999-12-14 Thread Wei Zhang
> Perhaps you need to get out more ;-) Or maybe Casio isn't big where you > live. Which country? Casio is still pretty big in Japan. Even in North America, didn't they release this palm pilot clone type device ? - To stop getting

Re: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...)

1999-12-14 Thread Steven Brooks
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Re: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...)

1999-12-14 Thread Dan Frakes
Richard Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >They make the best calculators - better than Sharp and >miles better than Texas Instruments. > >So there you go. That's about all I know about Casio. Calculators? I'll take a single HP over ten Casio's any day ;-) By the way, I did see the new Casio p

RE: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...)

1999-12-13 Thread Alan Dowds
Casio makes the coolest watches around; Casio G-shock, as well as calculators and all the other stuff people have said. It also specialises in watches with stuff built-in; calculators, altimeters, barometers, thermometers, compasses, PDAs, even GPS. Perhaps you need to get out more ;-) Or maybe

Re: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...)

1999-12-13 Thread Alexander Dietrich
Steven Brooks wrote: > > I haven't heard the brand name "Casio" in years. I thought they had gone > out of business. My impression was that they had gone the way of the I've known Casio for calculators and watches only, them producing any kind of Hi-Fi equipment is new to me ! Alexander --

Re: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...)

1999-12-13 Thread Richard Wright
At 14:34 13/12/99 -0600, you wrote: >I haven't heard the brand name "Casio" in years. I thought they had gone >out of business. My impression was that they had gone the way of the >Fisher brand name --a brand that used to make high quality stuff, but >through the years either made shoddy equip

Re: MD: Tarnished brandnames (was-Re: MiniDisc Weekly News...)

1999-12-13 Thread Shawn R. Lin
Steven Brooks wrote: > > I haven't heard the brand name "Casio" in years. I thought they had gone > out of business. My impression was that they had gone the way of the > Fisher brand name --a brand that used to make high quality stuff, but > through the years either made shoddy equipment, had