Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: DEC and The Americans Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 04:42:46 +1100 Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <4df0bfe0-763c-4abb-a3fd-c53c22099c24@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Pn3txXaAG4oW5rhmLdvu+A22+jhsY+bizj+rMhDohru99bSkw= Cancel-Lock: sha1:ftDhxz4tBM6NB+w4yWkgfPtuIh0= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:158900 "jmfbahciv" wrote in message news:PM00052B06A1E5522F@aca41119.ipt.aol.com... > Rod Speed wrote: >> >> >> "jmfbahciv" wrote in message >> news:PM00052AF33715924B@aca42396.ipt.aol.com... >>> Quadibloc wrote: >>>> On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 7:25:56 AM UTC-7, jmfbahciv wrote: >>>> >>>>> I wonder why DEC got fined. >>>> >>>> Given that DEC did not admit wrongdoing, it's reasonable to wonder. >>>> >>>> But a subsidiary of DEC had sold restricted technology to a company run >>>> by a >>>> man with links to the KGB. Thus, the case would likely have been >>>> brought >>>> against DEC on the basis that its German subsidiary, in its eagerness >>>> to >>> close >>>> a sale, failed to do due diligence - to verify the _bona fides_ of >>>> someone >>> who >>>> would buy such a computer. >>> >>> But that company wasn't a DEC subsidiary. Some other company bought the >>> system from DEC and sold/transferred (or something) it to [whatever the >>> Russian front was--DIT?]. >>>> >>>> So they can sell one to Siemens, or to the German government, but not >>>> to >>> just >>>> any fellow who walks in off the street. How long was the firm in >>>> business? >>> Who are its investors? >>> >>> I don't remember ever having that kind of examination done; >>> certainly nobody talked about it. Since DEC products were >>> expensive, only large companies or universities bought gear. >> >> BULLSHIT. Our town of 20K administration did. >> >>> hmmm...I wonder when DEC did start doing credit checks of customers. >>> That had to start once hard/software prices got real cheap. >> >> No one ever did any credit check of my operation. > > Unless you paid cash, you had a credit check done by the banks. So you paid cash if you didn’t want that to happen. Not exactly rocket science.