[Info-vax] Message from HP.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote 2013-12-11 00:00:
> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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?).
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> 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).
>

OK. :-)
Here is a BBC news from 2001 mentioning Ericsson and Scunthorp:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1244976.stm.
Not the funniest news, but anyway...

Jan-Erik.