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From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin)
Subject: Re: Fishertechnic prices?
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 12:22:00 GMT
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I just met James Bussey, the Unites States distributor of
fischertechnik, at the National Educational Computing Conference in
Boston.  He's a real nice guy, able to laugh at the extent to which
LEGO dominates the educational building toy market here in the States.
He's scratching out an existence as the conduit of fischertechnik into
this country.  (The fischertechnik company basically invests zero
dollars into advertising/marketing/educational R&D here in the States.
Compare that with LEGO...)

His company, Model Technologies, doesn't sell directly to end users,
but rather to about four different retailers in the U.S.  He can put
you in touch with these companies, which do store-front as well as
mail-order business.

Contact:

	James Bussey
	Model Technologies
	2420 Van Layden Way
	Modesto, CA  95356
	phone:  (209) 575-3445
	fax:          575-2750

Tell him I sent ya.

	-Fred

Fred Martin | fredm@media.mit.edu | (617) 253-5108 | 20 Ames St. Rm. E15-320
Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Lab     | Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
