[Info-vax] OT: What happened to the Malborough-Shrewsbury area ?

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In article <0d670ba5-5f2d-4465-8aca-b8b23923e383 at googlegroups.com>, Ian Miller <gxys at uk2.net> writes:
>On Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:47:18 AM UTC+1, JF Mezei wrote:
>> The Malborough-Shrewsbury area used to be a hotbed for the computer
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>> industry with a lot o R&D done there, Digital, and a whole BUNCH of
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>> other companies.
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>> They seem to be all gone now. And even Intel is abandonning the old DEC
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>> FAB at Hudson.
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>> Has this be a big economic blow to the area ? Or was the area diverse
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>> enough to widthstand the gradual disapearance of the computer industry ?
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>> What has sustained the area since then ?
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>Both Marlborough and Shrewsbury have farming and tourism - unless you
>mean some other foreign place not in the UK then I have no idea :-) 

He's referring to towns of the same title in the Commonwealth of Taxachusetts,
where its governance has bred a new meaning into the term commonwealth. ;)
 
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