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To: Paul Engel who wrote (115595)11/2/2000 1:42:55 AM
From: ratan lal  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Paul - I was being facetious about PC exports.

US refused to license sale of CRAY computers to India. India developed its own at a much lower price and started eating CRAY's lunch in most of the world.

Back in 1978 I had designed a video card, DoubleVision, that gave 80 column upper and lower case display on the Apple II computers (thay had only 40 column upper case). It was the card that converted Apple from a toy to a useful computer for Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Pascal etc.

i got orders from all over the world. And I started shipping them out. One day I received a letter for the customs dept. telling me I needed a license to export those cards. I ignored the letter. After my next shipment I got a visit from the customs dept. The officer warned me that I would be arrested if I continued to ship the cards. I told him that the card had already been copied and made in taiwan and that i could easily manufacture them in Taiwan and ship them out from there. he said that would be ok as long as they did not go thru his port.

I was flabbergasted. I did get some licenses and for other countries I started manufacturing in taiwan. But I became fully aware of bureaucracy and its stupidity.
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