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From: ath@helios.prosys.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Message-ID: <311@helios.prosys.se>
Date: 28 Nov 88 08:32:26 GMT
Organization: Programsystem AB, Linkoping, SWEDEN
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An article just crossed my desk. As it deals with computers and the
Soviet Union it might be of interest.

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The Swedish company Scandinavian Information Systems has entered a
joint venture agreement with a Soviet company to manufacture PC clones
in Moscow. The first clones are planned to be delivered in March 1989.
Initially the company will only put the components together, but they
hope to be able to do their own chips next autumn (of course, this
does not include the processor chips).

Their goal is to make 10 000 computers the first year.  About half of
these are intended for the Scandinavian market - the other half for
the Soviet market.

The article also says that other Swedish companies are planning to
enter similar agreements with software products.

More interesting, this deal seems to have the blessings of the US gov.
The article indicates that the hi tech embargo of hi tech products is
not going to be applied.

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