Re: Your favorite 10 analog IC's

From: gwhite (gwhite_at_deadend.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:02:13 GMT

John Larkin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:45:16 -0700, Jim Thompson
> <thegreatone@example.com> wrote:
>
> >If you've never been fired for insubordination, you've not lived. I
> >got fired from Dickson Electronics (a hybrid house) for redirecting
> >their business plan from heavily military to a mix between military
> >and commercial... showing a healthy profit in the process. They went
> >bust about two years after they fired me and sold out to Siemens. I
> >think that's even gone now.
>
> I've always taken a peverse pleasure in dancing on the grave of a
> company that tooled one around or ignored one's genius. I applaud the
> deaths of Metricom,...

I worked there. Why do you say that regarding them? I have my own views of why
they failed.

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