[Info-vax] Message from HP.

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Tuesday, 10 December 2013 21:34:54 UTC, Jan-Erik Soderholm  wrote:
> johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote 2013-12-10 20:39:>
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> > There was also a variant of BASEstar intended for use with CNC machine tools
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> > (at least one UK site used a variant of it for computer controlled wirewrapping
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> > of telephone exchange backplanes).
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> Hm, I know that we (when I was at Ericsson) had a AXE (Ericsson phone
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> exchanges) factory in Scunthorp (North Lincolnshire). Might have been
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> that one !? Or not... :-)
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> Jan-Erik.

I guess it's harmless as the factory's closed and gone, and the company's gone 
too (some of it to Ericsson, but maybe not this site).

I first knew it as GPT, Edge Lane, Liverpool. It had many other names before, 
and at least one afterwards (Marconi), then this site became Jabil Circuit, and 
then I think it closed. When I first knew it it was probably building System X 
backplanes or frames or similar(might also have been the generation before, 
TXE4?).

I didn't even know Ericsson once had a factory in Scunthorpe (and back when 
they did, I was nominally looking after major DEC customers in manufacturing - 
but not this one).