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From: sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock)
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Subject: Re: Foriegn markets and Languages
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Date: 9 May 89 21:44:01 GMT
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From article <10459@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, by grahamr@prism.cs.orst.edu (Robert Graham):

  From the Nov. 1988 issue of Byte magazine:

	The nonswitching power supply can handle voltages ranging
	anywhere from 90 volts to 260 V, and frequencies from
	50 Hz to 60 Hz. This means that you can plug in the
	hardware almost anywhere in the world without without
	having to set switches.

> Maybe we have a $150 trade deficit because countries like Japan and
> Germany (which now have stronger economies than us) think first "can we
> sell it in america?" and the US thinks first "can we sell it
> in america?" :)

   America is the largest purchaser of computers inthe world. It is
also the biggest exporter. You yourself point out that a European 
university had a Sun for every professor and a Cray II. 

   It is too my understanding that the Japanese are largely computer
illiterate. Students use abacuses more than they use computers.
Furthermore, I simply don't see any Japanese or German computers where 
I work. Do you know anyone who has purchased a Sony workstation?

			
					Sean Brunnock