Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 20 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:06:59 +0100, D wrote:
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Hmm... was it around 1940:ish?

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Way before that.

Just joking! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans
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I definitely know one great-something grandfather fought in the Civil War.
As far as I could trace back through fragmentary records another was
around during the Revolutionary War. The source said he moved out in the
country since he was a Loyalist.
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It wasn't their best work but Orson Welles directed a movie, 'The
Stranger' with Edward G. Robinson. Robinson is an agent hunting a Nazi war
criminal. The criminal has integrated into a small town and doesn't
trigger suspicion. Over the dinner table the criminal says Germans are a
threat to the world and the Robinson character counters saying Germans
like Marx made a positive contribution. The Nazi says that Marx was a Jew
and can't possibly a German, blowing his cover nicely.
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The US wasn't all that welcoming in that era unless you were some sort of
rock star.
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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/voyage-of-the-st-louis

Reminds me of an old Stephen King book (don't remember the name) where an old nazi hides in a village in the US and inspires a young man.
I still sometimes hope to find some long distant and forgotten relative in the US, but they all stayed put in northern sweden and northern iceland.
Many, on my mothers side of the family, have lived in the US for at least a year or two, but all of them (me included) eventually came back to where we came from.