editor Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Today I learned that Exxon (yes, that Exxon) made word processors: From: VCF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 That was one of Exxon, and other oil companies, efforts to diversify out of oil and gas. They were all pretty much abject failures. Here's a decent article on Exxon Office Systems https://mondaynote.com/50-years-intech-part-4-the-exxon-delusion-d92ada84f6e Note that part of that division was Zilog, the company that made the Z80 chip, one of the first successful microprocessors. Other odd oil company efforts to diversify: Getty oil owned a large portion of ESPN. Mobil owned Montgomery Ward Atlantic Richfield bought Anaconda Copper just in time to be saddled with the clean up liabilities Occidental owned Iowa Beef Here's another good article https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/12/02/big-oil-companies-pull-back-after-decade-of-diversifying-industry-said-to-find-its-skills-hard-to-transfer/abb09be5-8040-46d9-bed5-564a811c6824/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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