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From: mlinar@poisson.usc.edu (Mitch Mlinar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
Message-ID: <4387@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 18:04:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 10 18:04:19 1987
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Keywords: 2 is a trademark of IBM

In article <84@sdeggo.UUCP> dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) writes:
>In article <684@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>> I have to give Brother Blue credit.  Their new machines are quite
>> nicely assembled, right down to the "made in Usa" sticker next to the
>> power switch.  
>
>Those liars!  I read in the paper the other day that they were having their
>motherboards for the PS series manufactured in Japan.  Let's start a campaign
>to have those stickers removed from the product :)  (Actually, the sticker
>probably only refers to the power switch :) )

Much truth to this.  A conversation piece here pertains to our IBM 3812
laster printer which has a "Made in USA" stamp on the backplane board.
However, the way it arrived, on the front panel there was the usual ID
on a brushed aluminum plate that read

                          IBM  (big letters)
                          3812 (small)

and on a white removable sticker below this was

          +-----------------------------------------+
          |             MADE IN JAPAN               |
          | After installation, please remove label |
          +-----------------------------------------+

It has been some eighteen months and the label is still untouched.

-Mitch