Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02

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Subject: [Leica] Demise of film
From: chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:11:06 -0400
References: <k2r6a7544a61004010830h591711e6ve591498deaec0bfa@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20100401142146.035ef030@med.cornell.edu> <j2ic7c8cf881004011455uf3b2bb5fv7423826698db84a1@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, I would extend my portent to any place dominated by one 
industry.  It's best not to wait around for the anti-climax.

At 05:55 PM 4/1/2010, you wrote:
>Chris,
>
>Great story.
>
>Sadly, I can not name a "Efficient company town", well Mountain View for
>Google, may be. :)
>
>-Pasvorn
>
>On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Chris Saganich 
><chs2018 at med.cornell.edu>wrote:
>
> >
> > Eastman set-up that town for failure early on.  Before Eastman put the
> > screws to the place Rochester was one of the most successful and creative
> > cities in the North East regarding technology.  That's the reason Eastman
> > set up shop there because of the already highly advanced work in 
> > precision
> > manufacturing and  optical work.  Eastman came to complete dominate the
> > Rochester economy choking off or swallowing up nearly every other 
> > business
> > in town.  Xerox, named Haloid at the time was a photo supply operation 
> > and
> > survived the Eastman onslaught because they were so small as to go
> > unnoticed.  They bought the rights to a process invented by a clerk in an
> > electrical machine patten office to copy diagrams for patten research and
> > then developed photo-copy paper and machines to use the process.  By that
> > time Rochester was already a efficient company town and Xerox despite its
> > innovative spirit couldn't return Rochester to its pre-Kodak dynamic
> > economy.  Efficient company towns are destined to stagnate and fail so if
> > your living in one get-out while you can and don't look back!
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Demise of film)
Message from chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich) ([Leica] Demise of film)
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