[Leica] Demise of film

[pasvorn at boonmark.net (Pasvorn Boonmark)]

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:

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> 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!
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