Talk:Blue Chip Electronics

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:27, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that Blue Chip Electronics' low-cost Blue Chip PC was manufactured by Hyundai? Source: "Blue Chip Electronics has contracted with Hyundai for 120,000 units of the Blue Chip PC" (Bannister 1986, p. 6.)
  • ALT1:... that Hyundai was originally commissioned by Blue Chip Electronics to manufacture their printers but ended up producing Blue Chip's computer instead? Source: '"We were looking for a company to make our printers," ... "so we went to Hyundai Electronics America. But during the discussions, we learned they had a personal-computer project in the works. The next thing I know we're selling computers... and we're still looking for somebody to make our printers"' (Hawkins 1987, p. 28.)

• Comment: ALT0 may not be that exciting at face value, but not many people know (at least from my experience in the US) that Hyundai is a large conglomerate rather than just a car company.

Created by DigitalIceAge (talk). Self-nominated at 07:57, 24 September 2021 (UTC).

Length, history and references verified; copyvio checks out great. Good to go. QPQ not yet needed for this user. Daniel Case (talk) 04:56, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

ALT0 to T:DYK/P6

October 2021 edits

I have done some general copy-editing on this article and also corrected a number of minor spelling and punctuation errors.

In addition, I have removed all the translations of 1980s prices to current-day prices, for example "initial retail price of US$549 ($1251 in 2020)". In general, applying an index of inflation to historic prices is not very useful when there is no indication of whether you are measuring increases in consumer prices, general retail prices or salaries, and whether the indexes apply to a specific country or region or are global. But it is particularly meaningless with regard to computer equipment and software, as these prices tend to move rapidly in the opposite direction. A computer selling for $549 in the 1980s would probably be equivalent to one selling for less than $100 in the 2020s - and would certainly have no relation to the stated figure of $1251.

At least that's my opinion. If other editors disagree, feel free to edit accordingly.
Mike Marchmont (talk) 16:31, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

@Mike Marchmont: Thanks fot the copyedit Mike! Fair enough wrt inflation prices--Blue Chip were notable for being one of the first sub-$1000 PC clone makers so I thought inflation figures would be useful but in retrospect I might have gone overboard with them. DigitalIceAge (talk) 16:38, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

@DigitalIceAge:I take your point abuot Blue Chip being the first with a sub-$1000 clone, but we can agree that the inflation figures have little relation with those original prices.

By the way, I also corrected the statement about it being sold through retail stores rather than mail order. I think the point that the Computerworld article made was that it would be the cheapest model sold through stores, and I edited the article accordingly. I feel sure that earlier clones were sold in stores, although I don't have a citation to back that up. If you disagree, please feel free to revert. Mike Marchmont (talk) 16:53, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Also, congratulations on the article making "Did you know?". It was that that led me to the article in the first place. I enjoyed reading it. Mike Marchmont (talk) 16:56, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Good catch—can't discount the Tandy 1000 (even though they were a Radio Shack exclusive). Glad you enjoyed the article, it was fun to write. DigitalIceAge (talk) 19:59, 16 October 2021 (UTC)