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I once heard a story about how Brazil used to manufacture magnetic-core memory. When production stopped, lots of people lost their jobs and somehow this shaped
by forinti 8y ago
I once heard a story about how Brazil used to manufacture magnetic-core memory. When production stopped, lots of people lost their jobs and somehow this shaped Brazil's computer policy (they basically closed the market to foreign companies). But I haven't been able to find any proof of this.
- jecel 8y agoThe reserved market policy was created in 1977 specifically to keep IBM from launching their minicomputer, which would have preemptively killed off the effort by the government owned company Cobra (which would only launch their 530 mini in 1980) The relation with jobs was that the policy had full support from academics who were upset that foreign companies would hire their engineering students only for sales, with all design work done in their home countries. I am not aware of any big stink about factory line workers losing their jobs.