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of the copyright laws protecting it. Ferranti Canada's efforts
to launch an indigenous computer industry, with itself at the
centre, and the eventual collapse of this dream, is a more
complex story than the usual versions which speak of great ideas
lost to an unresponsive society. The present paper gives an
account of Ferranti Canada's involvement in the beginnings of a
Canadian electronics industry in the twenty years, or so,
following the end of the Second World W