[cctalk] Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man

[Will Cooke via cctalk]

> On 01/27/2023 3:00 PM CST Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
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> On 1/27/2023 3:53 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> >>> and IBM sold what seems to be a re-badged Epson MX-80,
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> > > Yes, I always got a kick out of these. Came in an IBM box labeled
> > > "Made in
> > > USA". The only thing "Made in USA" was the box.
> > So, it was honest to label the box, "Made in USA"?
> 
> Apparently. They did it for years until Epson started manufacturing
> over here.
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> 
> bill

That was a common practice in those days.  I remember seeing news stories about 
it.  I "think" a law was passed in late 80s forbidding that.  A lot of products 
now say "this box was (proudly) made in the USA.
Will