XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 07:56:42 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:   
      
   > I thought GE was still going. Besides aerospace, is GE Porwer Systems   
   > still running (turbines, generators, and such)? I lived in the general   
   > vicinity of Schenectady for many years and had family that worked there.   
   > I know GE Plastics in Pittsfield and Waterford was sold off (I had a gig   
   > there for a while, GE-400 system). MAO had something to do with nuclear   
   > subs. I know the appliance division left a long time ago, and I'm not   
   > even going to mention the Computer Division here in Phoenix.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Vernova   
      
   It sounds like it sort of lives on in GE Vernova although the wiki article   
   is confusing.   
      
   I grew up near Troy. When nukes became unpopular that pretty much killed   
   the LST business except for spare parts. I left the northeast in '88 and   
   Schenectady was sort of a ghost town.  Both Schenectady and Pittsfield had   
   the idea that GE had too much of an investment and could never leave. Then   
   Power Systems waved goodbye and went to Atlanta.   
      
   I never had anything to do with Schenectady but the company I worked for   
   did a thyrite molding system for Pittsfield, and plastics molding systems   
   for the Somersworth NH meter plant and the underground terminations plant   
   in Dover NH.  That was in the '70s. I went back east in 2004 and   
   Somersworth was still hanging on but it's gone now.   
      
   https://www.fosters.com/story/business/2016/06/12/rise-and-fall-of-   
   general-electric-in-somersworth/27803271007/   
      
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