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- From: Phill@home101.demon.co.uk (Phill Mathias)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Rockwell - Mexico chipset
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 23:16:26 GMT
- Organization: CadOnLine
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- bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield) wrote:
-
- >On Tue, 02 Apr 1996 13:12:52 GMT, lasse@ucom.no (Lasse E. Haugen)
- >wrote:
-
- >>Phill@home101.demon.co.uk (Phill Mathias) wrote:
-
- >>>Hi
- >>>I'm using a external "DataFlex "RAPIER V32bis+ with FAX ".
- >>>Recently decided to check if I was getting the best out of my hard
- >>>ware.
- >>>I had a look inside the box and identified the following chips;
- >>>RC144DPL C2900-12
- >>>R6640-12 ROCKWELL
- >>>ROCKWELL 92 9241 A20935-2
- >>>9314 A25558-3 MEXICO
- >>>MEXICO
-
- >Back in the mid-70s there was a US Owned assembly plant by the name of
- >ARICO operating in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mex. just across the border
- >from Douglas, Arizona. One of the PRINCIPLE investors in that venture
- >was a woman by the name of Verna Rapier. The chap with all the big
- >plans on how to spend Verna's money was Shields Fair, a Motorola
- >(Phoenix) cast-off and Verna's "Significant Other". In the mid '70s
- >they were churning out trainloads of 11-meter CB radio linear
- >amplifiers and winding "trip coils" for a Camden, New Jersey outfit
- >that built GFCI circuit breakers.
-
- >As uncommon as the name "Rapier" is, its association with an
- >electronics gizmo coming out of Mexico is almost too coincidental
- >for it to be anything less. Perhaps Verna & Shields are still
- >in business...
-
- Did they perhaps own a pet dog called Rockwell ? :-)).
- (Who they co-incidently named after the worlds biggest supplier of
- modem chipsets).
-
- (Sorry couldn't resist)
- --
- Phill Mathias
- Phill@home101.demon.co.uk
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