[net.crypt] Today PC's, Tomorrow...?

outer@utcsrgv.UUCP (Richard Outerbridge) (02/09/85)

The Toronto *Globe and Mail* recently carried a story about the USSR
launching a buying spree in the U.S.A. for personal computers.  It
reported that about five weeks ago the export controls on this sort
of equipment were lifted.  Does anyone down there in Mother America
know what other items may have been affected by this move towards
Free Trade in Hi-Tech?  For example, *crypto equipment* perchance?
How big/fast are the computers the Russians can now buy?  The Globe said
they had their eyes on Apples and IBM PC's, and were prepared to spend
mucho dollars because of the abject failure of their own micro industry.
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Richard Outerbridge	<outer@utcsrgv.UUCP>	416 961-4757
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