> Must be over ten years ago but Radio shack one year sold a portable CD > player. Some one noticed that it came with a digital output. Soon enough > this $100 player got written up in the high end audio rags. Radio Shack > stores all across North America sold out. All over high end setups used a > little Radio Shack portable for CD transport.
Heh. That was Tom Gillette, a.k.a. "Sam Tellig," of _Stereophile_. He's the marketing / mailinglist genius behind _Stereophile_'s resurgence in the '80s when Larry Archibald owned it. I don't know how he does it--and I've tried to analyze it--but the guy could sell snow to an Eskimo. --Mike
