rosconey, your "sharp is cheap" comment made me remember a funny story. I was in LA (Los Felis, near Glendale) with a friend, shopping in goodwill store, or dollar store or something full of cheap junk. My friend got excited about this calculator for $1. It looked brand new, made by "Sharp" so he bought it. We were dirt poor so he had to really think about it, but he said, "How bad can it be if it's made by Sharp?"
So he gets home and starts using it on his taxes. All of a sudden I hear him yelling and swearing. "Ahhhhh, Shit!"
I go in there, he is holding up the calculator. It says "Shrap" not Sharp, printed in the same SHARP font we all know. We didn't stop laughing for weeks.