Re: We obviously never learned our lesson
It resulted in some ludicrous situations such as demanding we got export licenses for Japanese calculator memory packs ...
Indeed. I do distinctly remember having to apply for the US State Department's permission to access a Japanese computer (one of the NEC SX models, forget which one) located in Switzerland ... while at the same time being given access to a system about as powerful built by a NEC's US competitor (which has since ceased to exist, with its carcass dismembered and resold multiple times over) and located in the USA, no questions asked.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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