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Dell Computers are American – official

So now you know

After a long and tortuous process of deliberation, US Customs has decided that Dell's notebook computers are American.

Even though in one of the computers under examination, the chassis is from Taiwan, the hard disk from Thailand, the floppy disk drive and power supply are from China, the CD-ROM is from Japan, and the memory from either Korea, Japan or Singapore. The BIOS and CPU are sourced in the US.

This is how personal computers are assembled today; it gives us a peek into Dell Country a nation populated not by Dudes, but by robots and felons.

"Based on the facts presented, foreign chassis', hard disk drives, floppy disks, memory boards and other foreign components, which are further processed and assembled into notebook computers in the U.S., in the manner described above, are substantially
transformed as a result of the operations performed in the U.S," concludes the Customs Dept.

"Accordingly, the country of origin of the notebook computers is the U.S."

Net Stuckists take note. There are two parts missing from a Fritz-free computer, which may need to start building quite soon.

For this information, we're indebted to John Young's Cryptome site, which publishes the docket here here site. ®

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