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India needs home made electronic components so badly. As it is doing experiments in electronics is expensive enough. Hoping localized manufacturing and factorie

India needs home made electronic components so badly. As it is doing experiments in electronics is expensive enough. Hoping localized manufacturing and factories may reduce it a bit.

baybal2 5y ago
Funny factoid: Fairchild Semi, them being Hinduism obsessed hippies, seriously considered setting up a factory in India. They went to meet Indira. What Indira did? Shooed them away, and told to blacklist them for visas. "Thinking machines," they thought, would completely annihilate the bureaucratic work, and babu jobs for their progeny.
- laxmin 5y ago
  Sorry, that is not a fact, but a racist anecdote. Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey? You won't talk about the thousand ways Indians were kept from immigrating to the US or acquiring computers and mainframes using sanctions.
  - Rexxar 5y ago
    Criticizing one particular politician for a technical/economical decision is racist now ?
  - baybal2 5y ago
    > Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey? No... Indira indeed understood semiconductors, and "what those thinking machine thing is" way batter than most of her contemporaries. She was very educated. In fact, she was promoting computer education heavily, yet her vision for the computer was complete opposite of business minded Americans. She seen computers to be powerful, and heavily restricted machines in the future, gated behind the elite "oracular class" to prevent proletarians from computing something wrong (like finding out cong fudging economics figures.) For her vision of computers, mass manufacturing was not needed, and, worse, it was dangerous. She didn't mind computers costing millions of dollars, or being the size of a mountain, and only available few pieces per country as long as the owner would be her/the government. She later conceeded on this towards the end of her reign once she seen the industry choosing the Fairchild's path irreversably, but the ship has long since sailed.
  - naruvimama 5y ago
    Indira is part of the dynasty. Her father Nehru the first Prime minister won 0 votes within the congress. Yet as fate would have he was propped up by M.K. Gandhi, the non-member dictator of the congress party. I as many other Indians suspect today was just a continuation of the colonial rule. So Indira like her father was a continuation of the colonial rule.

India needs home made electronic components so badly. As it is doing experiments in electronics is expensive enough. Hoping localized manufacturing and factories may reduce it a bit.

baybal2 5y ago

Funny factoid: Fairchild Semi, them being Hinduism obsessed hippies, seriously considered setting up a factory in India. They went to meet Indira. What Indira did? Shooed them away, and told to blacklist them for visas. "Thinking machines," they thought, would completely annihilate the bureaucratic work, and babu jobs for their progeny.

laxmin 5y ago
Sorry, that is not a fact, but a racist anecdote. Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey? You won't talk about the thousand ways Indians were kept from immigrating to the US or acquiring computers and mainframes using sanctions.
- Rexxar 5y ago
  Criticizing one particular politician for a technical/economical decision is racist now ?
- baybal2 5y ago
  > Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey? No... Indira indeed understood semiconductors, and "what those thinking machine thing is" way batter than most of her contemporaries. She was very educated. In fact, she was promoting computer education heavily, yet her vision for the computer was complete opposite of business minded Americans. She seen computers to be powerful, and heavily restricted machines in the future, gated behind the elite "oracular class" to prevent proletarians from computing something wrong (like finding out cong fudging economics figures.) For her vision of computers, mass manufacturing was not needed, and, worse, it was dangerous. She didn't mind computers costing millions of dollars, or being the size of a mountain, and only available few pieces per country as long as the owner would be her/the government. She later conceeded on this towards the end of her reign once she seen the industry choosing the Fairchild's path irreversably, but the ship has long since sailed.
- naruvimama 5y ago
  Indira is part of the dynasty. Her father Nehru the first Prime minister won 0 votes within the congress. Yet as fate would have he was propped up by M.K. Gandhi, the non-member dictator of the congress party. I as many other Indians suspect today was just a continuation of the colonial rule. So Indira like her father was a continuation of the colonial rule.