After the big success of our import - the machines were selling fast, every week we'd deliver a few - we merited a visit by the representative of the manufacturer. They were two, taiwanese Chineses, with english first names and chinese surnames. I remember the guy talking about the current state of electronics, saying that a complete tape recorder is already so small, for years now, it could be inserted into the cassette. The only reason it's still as big as it is is the required size of the buttons and the speaker.
The other thing - I asked about chopsticks. I'm relatively proficient with them, but... how does one know a master? What should you be able to do to pass for one? "Lift two peanuts", he said. Which I've seen done, seventeen years later, by our daughters.
Vanji and Sale took them for dinner somewhere, no clue where. Never saw them again. The company name, Acrotech, is even ungooglable - there are dozens of companies with similar names, and even their IPC brand is not protected, the acronym applies to a dozen other things.
Few years later, we used A from their logo as a base for the logo of Avai.