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 Message 529 
 Sean Dennis to Dave Drum 
 IBM PS/2 
 01 May 19 13:23:05 
 
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Hello Dave,

01 May 19 06:54 at you wrote to me:

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

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

That's what I've heard also but the suits quit Lexmark to run Unicomp.  Either 
way, I'm glad they're still around making keyboards.

Later,
Sean

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