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From: "Arthur R. McGee" <72377.1351@CompuServe.COM> To: BlindCopyReceiver:;@compuserve.com Date: 30 Mar 93 18:32:35 EST Am I the last to know about this? Does anyone know how to get in touch with these folks? If not, I can just ask John McMullen for the Author's contact information. Thanks in advance. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Computer Select, March 1993 : Articles ***** Journal: Newsbytes Jan 7 1993 * Full Text COPYRIGHT Newsbytes Inc. 1993. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: PC clonemaker chooses Africa to rival Far East. (Micro Business Systems in Lagos, Nigeria expanding manufacture of IBM PC clones) Author: Rosenbaum, Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Text: PC Clonemaker Chooses Africa To Rival Far East 01/07/93 PARIS, FRANCE, 1993 JAN 7 (NB) -- A former Los Angeles-based PC clonemaker has chosen Lagos, Nigeria, as the site that he hopes will rival Southeast Asia as an electronics producer. Micro Business Systems - Africa's largest mass-producer of IBM clones, kicked off this year in Lagos, with the goal of manufacturing 2000 systems every month. "This is the largest computer manufacturing company in Africa," said Director Raghid Keir, who learned computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before starting his own clonemaking concern in 1985. Keir came to Africa in 1992 with the purpose of applying what he had learned in LA to a developing nation. Keir thinks that Africa will be able to follow the model of Taiwan and Korea, producing machines even cheaper than those made in Asia. He also sees himself as better-positioned than companies in those countries to export to Europe. Keir declined to say how long it will take his African start-up to rival the other producers in the developing world. (Andrew Rosenbaum/19930108/Press Contact: Raghid Keir, Micro Business Systems, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Company: Micro Business Systems Topic: Computer industry Manufacturing Microcomputers Consumer Electronics Record#: 13 375 932. *** End *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art "Rambo" McGee Internet: [72377.1351@compuserve.com] [amcgee@netcom.com] BDPA BAC: [1-707-552-3314] to [Arthur McGee] or [Sysop] Data Bits Online: [1-213-295-6094] to [Arthur McGee] Compuserve: [72377,1351] Voice: [1-213-735-4879]
