Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops?
by Spooky23 on Monday November 07, 2016 @08:54AM
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I think you are right, but the idea that they were willing and able to actually execute was incredible to me. Alot of competence and strong relationships were in place in the sales and manufacturing organization for that to happen.
As a customer, I think we bought ~1,000 units in the end. I've rarely seen that type of capability in my career, and it's too bad that the realities of the market have likely nixed it.
They may have stuck the needed connector on a wire and used an NC mill to make an appropriate cutout from an existing housing part.
It is literally less than 1 hour to design and tape-out a inch-square pc board to accomodate a connector and cable termination. I am a little guy and have to wait a week and pay five bucks to have this manufactured. Fujitsu probably had this done the morning after a solution to the request was devised and approved.