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> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Cary Enoch R... aka Enoch's Vision,

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> caryenochr@...> wrote:
>
> > Why does "made in Singapore" distress you?
> >
>
> i guess you have to be of the age when 'made in america' meant

something

> special. it just seemed the end of an era for hp, a prototypical

american

> company. hp quality was renowned, the world standard. nearly every

piece of

> test equipment i used in the navy was hp. for them to compromise in

any way

> just seemed a betrayal of all they stood for.
>

Oh, you've got me reminiscing here. Back in the day, 40 some years
ago, my military unit had all top of the line test equipment -
everything mil-spec. To be honest, I don't remember the brand names of
any except one. We spent a lot of time with our oscilloscopes. If you
wanted a GOOD o'scope, you had 3 choices: Tektronix, Tektronix, or
Tektronix. Check out the Wikipedia on Tektronix:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix
Check out the sentence with the phrase "very highest quality". The
only other company mentioned is HP.
Yea, it was special; you couldn't buy anything better.
BTW, I am now the proud new owner of a really nice Cannondale bicycle,
handmade in the USA.