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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Canon's new system, by no means cheap, is initially aimed at professionals. The price tag for the SVS is $35,800, and Canon expects that in the first year demand will be limited to about 1,000 units. But Sony and competitors like Nikon and Kodak are developing similar equipment, and industry experts say an all-electronic system costing under $10,000 is five to ten years away. Says Eugene Glazer, a technology analyst at Dean Witter Reynolds: "Canon has developed a technology that will one day make conventional cameras obsolete...
Most of the normal ways of looking at such an investment were ignored because adhering to them would discourage even starting the project. Department 260 was high in risk and cost, but if it worked it would yield far more than its price tag. O'Rourke, in persuading the company's directors to pump money into the project, was blunt: "I figured if we could produce $30 million to $50 million a year in sales, and it cost just $15 million to build, that was a good deal...
...price-tag, members of the Class of '61 can bring as many family members as they want to stay in the Yard, eat food catered by Harvard, and partake in the University-funded festivities. "We don't charge extra [for children] because we want to encourage families to come," says Briefer. Widows and their families are admitted free of charge, adds Briefer...
...business with." Still, some analysts remain skeptical. Says Fritz Ringling, who follows the company for the Gartner Group, a Stamford, Conn.-based consulting firm: "Olson has his work cut out for him. AT&T's problems run deep and cannot be cured by simply changing the name tag on the chairman's door...
...forgoing additional children. Tom Cray, 36, of Rochester, and his wife Jean, 41, would like to have a second child, but they are not sure their two salaries will stretch to cover the mortgage and two children. Says Cray: "It's depressing to think human life has a price tag...