The wreck of tech: What did Idaho learn?

Through the kind of horse-trading of which few others are capable, former Gov. Cecil Andrus in 1972 talked Hewlett-Packard – a California company that had marketed the world’s first personal computer four years earlier – into building a factory to manufacture printers and copiers in Boise.

Thus Idaho’s long affair with high-technology industry began. But 37 years later, love’s on the rocks.

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