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

[Paul Sture]

In article <00ADB413.1113A479 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> 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
> >> 
> >> industry with a lot o R&D done there, Digital, and a whole BUNCH of
> >> 
> >> other companies.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> They seem to be all gone now. And even Intel is abandonning the old DEC
> >> 
> >> FAB at Hudson.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Has this be a big economic blow to the area ? Or was the area diverse
> >> 
> >> enough to widthstand the gradual disapearance of the computer industry ?
> >> 
> >> What has sustained the area since then ?
> >
> >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. ;)

Commune-wealth then?

-- 
Paul Sture

IBM's Thomas J. Watson predicted a "world market for maybe five computers".
Given the way this whole Cloud thing is going, he might have been extremely
prescient.