James Harper Became a One-Man Megasupplier of Illegal Tech to Moscow

Systime, a DEC VAR in the UK who notoriously got sued for copying circuitboard designs also got done like a dinner for flogging knock-off Vaxen to the USSR.

Around this time, british and european telco industry was trying to flog digital phone exchanges into the russian market. The ITAR regs (or their predecessors) got waved at them and the sale was denied. Lo and behold, ROLM (either by then or shortly after an IBM affiliate) got the sale.