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 Message 531 
 Mike Powell to DAVE DRUM 
 IBM PS/2 
 02 May 19 19:46:00 
 
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MSGID: 622.clascomp@1:2320/105 2130bc95
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PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux  Mar  2 2019 GCC 6.3.0
TID: SBBSecho 3.06-Linux r3.105 Mar  2 2019 GCC 6.3.0
> 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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