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Re: Thursday, January 15, 2003
Tom had good reason to hate the 800; his first sample was a piece of krep. They had serious quality control problems with the first few batches. But the underlying platform is solid; it's a cost-reduced Drake SW-8. Now that they've got the bugs out, it's a solid radio. Very solid. :-) As for the 2010, it is indeed gone. Universal Radio in Ohio was the last source for it, and they just cancelled over a hundred orders this week because Sony didn't come through. Sony had originally promised to continue producing the radio until the end of March, but changed their minds. I bought a 2010 from Universal about two years ago to replace my original 2010, which bought the farm from overuse and a couple of close encounters of the Pepsi kind. It's truly a remarkable radio, and it's amazing that Sony kept it in its catalog for 17 years. I can't think of too many consumer electronics products with that kind of longetivity.
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