Attempts To Save and Rescue Birotron
In the late '70s, and into the '80s, Les Bradley (Managing Director of the Mellotron company) offered to help save the Birotron through a mutual hybrid manufacturing operation but the offer came too late. Birotronics had abandoned the idea of any commercial production as funds had ran too short and it was estimated the Birotron could now never compete in the marketplace against digital synth technology.
Not wanting to give up, David Biro returned to the USA and attempted to sustain the Birotron project by designing another model that overcame the lengthy manufacturing challenges in earlier versions and might be more viable. This 'model C' version - invested in by Rudkin-Wiley (Pepperidge Farm Foods and Air Shield products), used fewer 8 track tapes, had new sounds, and would have included digital technology, and a remote keyboard that connected to the machine, but sustained funding was not available due to the 1981 recession. Throughout 1981, the recession worsened and funds for the project had completely drained.
By Christmas 1982, Biro was homeless, living on the streets and all Birotron projects had ceased.
Read more about this topic: Birotron
Famous quotes containing the words attempts to, attempts, save and/or rescue:
“Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“I am in no boastful mood. I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Whether your child is 3 or 13, don’t rush in to rescue him until you know he’s done all he can to rescue himself.”
—Barbara F. Meltz (20th century)