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from: Mike Powell
date: 2019-05-02 19:46:00
subject: IBM PS/2

> IIRC Unicomp is the result of a group of Lexmark suits buying Itty Bitty
> Machine Co's licence, design and production facilities rather than see
> production end in favour of the cheaper (in every sense) cheesy Chinese
> rubber-dome (squishy) examples that the bean counters were dictating.

> Back in the mid-1990s if memory serves.

IIRC, LexMark was formed in a similar fashion... IBM was ditching the
printer business and another group either took it over, or was spun-out of
IBM.

That was also around 1992-94.

Mike

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