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Originally Posted by blue2000s
They've been the big players in consumer electronics for a looong time.
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And I am ooooooolllllddd!! I knew what "Jap Crap" meant!
I'm also old enough that my then future father in law gave me a ration of crap for buying my first Porsche (1968) because it was a "damned kraut car." Not too many years later, a Jewish friend's grandmother disowned him for buying a Porsche. When I bought my first little cheapo Japanese transistor radio - 1966? - my grandfather (Mom's Dad) went and bought me a Motorola radio for my bedroom so I could throw it away. He didn't understand I wanted the mobile battery transistor so I could listen with earphones. But then, my mother's father, my father and all my uncles, as well as my father in law and all the men of his family fought in WWII. All did not come home. All of my family is from Cincinnati, but my Mom's father and all but one of her five brothers fought the Japanese, but all of my Dad's family and all of my wife's family were in Europe. All three lost one son.