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Article #620144Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners (was: Xerox company sold)
From: hanc...
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:29
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:29
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On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 8:11:09 PM UTC-5, Peter Flass wrote: > > Honeywell sold their informations systems division to Bull. Honeywell > > however is now part of Allied Signal, which adopted the name and is > > still a huge American company. > Right, but no computers. I think Honeywell was quite into computerized electronics for their control system product line. I also suspect Allied was into computers for control systems for its chemical plants. Below is a link to a refinery control system from 60 years ago. I don't know who makes that kind of control equipment today. (To me, the stuff looks neat, but I know very little about it.) http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/trw/rw-300/Texaco_Port_Arthur_Apr59.pdf
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