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>And for those further out, where the Muntz TVs did not work, those could be returned at the customer's additional effort and expense, and not Muntz's.

What a truly awful approach to saving money. Just mislead the customer and have them pay the price associated with that. Good thing we have consumer protection laws now.

Every Tesla owner I know is constantly taking their car for maintenance and "small fixes".

Pease the bandgap tzar, one of my professional heroes.

Muntz no. Should be filed in the same can as Sinclair. Rumour has it that the vast majority of really defective transistors (rather than just the moderately defective ones he shipped) were used as hard core under Sinclair's drive

Thanks. Pease Porridge is also where I first heard of it.