A minor Adventure in Vintage Computing

Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos at jimulco.autonoma.edu.co
Thu Jul 28 09:13:42 CDT 2005


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Carlos Murillo-Sanchez wrote:
> > James Rice wrote:
> > > Foxboro is an old very large control and instrumentation company located
> > > of all places, Foxboro, MA.
> > Oh my; yes, why did my brain cells link Foxboro to the UK in my previous
> > message? ... hmmm.
> But in the very least, didn't Foxboro have an office in Foxboro, MA?  Was
> that just coincidence?

My reference is some 5000 miles away right now (a book on the
history of control theory).  I was writing from memory... and
somehow I "remembered" an UK connection for the Foxboro
company; but I may be wrong.  Perhaps it has been
american all the time (I think they were bought out
in the last decade or so...)

carlos.




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