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Re: Bad News for Canada

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Bad News for Canada
Date 2016-02-10 11:18 +1100
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<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message 
news:3a9b4c86-6814-4e86-94c0-f8b1e50458ea@googlegroups.com...
> On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 11:19:28 AM UTC-5, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> Haven't you heard?  We're so busy being hewers of wood and
>> drawers of water for the rest of the world that we don't
>> have time to develop a strong manufacturing base.
>
> Did IBM ever have significant research or manufacturing facilities
> in Canada?
>
> Does the soda, "Canada Dry", have anything to do with Canada beyond
> the name?

Yep, it came from Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Dry

> Historical note:  When IBM was still C-T-R, I think it adopted the IBM
> name from its Canadian subsidary.
>
>

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Bad News for Canada Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-05 20:34 -0800
  Re: Bad News for Canada mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-02-06 07:50 -0800
  Re:Bad News for Canada RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2016-02-09 09:17 +0300
    Re: Re:Bad News for Canada Sparc IPX <sparcipx@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2016-02-09 14:20 +0000
      Re: Bad News for Canada Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-09 16:20 +0000
        Re: Bad News for Canada hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-09 13:40 -0800
          Re: Bad News for Canada Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-09 14:01 -0800
          Re: Bad News for Canada "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-02-10 11:18 +1100
      Re: Bad News for Canada Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-09 18:35 +0100
        Re: Bad News for Canada hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-09 13:51 -0800

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