ru12 wrote:
{Quote hidden}> Many readers would have been aware of Peter Crowcroft, formerly of
> Tasmania
> Australia, who set up an Electronics DIY kit business in Hong Kong nearly
> 30
> years ago. He passed away in 2005. At the time, I reported it here:
>
http://www.dontronics.com/peter_crowcroft.html
>
> (His range of PIC programmers are still very popular.)
>
> Ladda his wife, has had quite a struggle to be able to continue without
> Peter, and with the assistance of old friends like Frank of
> Ozitronics.com,
> she has managed to survive in these poor economic times.
>
> There is a very nice writeup about her struggle in "AmCham", the Journal
> of
> the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.
>
> Pages 17-18,
>
http://www.amcham.org.hk/images/magazine/apr09.pdf
Very interesting, and the struggles they're describing are pretty typical of
small businesses (15 hour days, sleeping at the workshop)...
I am a bit frustrated with the publisher:
===
Ms Ladda ... said: "I am not worried about the economy. Maybe because I am
just an ordinary working [class] woman and a housewife, and I don't know
much about the financial world, the economy or anything like that. I think
we are doing alright, and that there is still demand out there."
===
They tried to "fix" her comment, but the end result is the opposite of the
desired effect: "Why is 'class' in brackets?.. Oh!"
Vitaliy
dontronics.com>:
