Osborne 1 blues...

On 3/21/2014 8:47 PM, Eric Smith wrote: I met him. He was the one who called the shots and had others doing the building of the sets. He was a salesman and marketeer. The thing he was good at was just spotting things people didn't know the value of and exploiting it. The last items he was selling was the remains of a horribly executed entry by Technicolor into the video industry. He had bought all the small 8mm sized custom recorders they had and was selling them for $99 bucks when the average mini VHS was selling for about 1000 with a camera. Technicolor tried to get a couple thousand for them and maybe sold 2. they bankrupted on that and the final demise of the demand for their services business. They are still a junkyard IP dog, but only as a patent troll now days. The recorders that Muntz sold wholesale were also sold at most of the computer stores around the LA area. Everyone in the junk biz bought some. The wonderful cycles of junk at the swap meets. So many gizmos were sold at the stores that were failures for their companies, but a boon for the scrappers here. That's a subject for another thread.