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- Subject: Re: MLIS (was Micropolis (MILS)
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!cdthq!gary
- From: gary@cdthq.UUCP (Gary Heston)
- Message-ID: <FD4VXB4w161w@cdthq.UUCP>
- References: <C1AE0s.4n7@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 10:23:14 CST
- Organization: Garys' Home for Obsolete Computers
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- hal@pollux (Hal N. Brooks) writes:
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- > In article <22JAN199310170290@vx.cis.umn.edu> fqm6448
- > >This stock seems to be trading at a low P/E Ratio. It has earnings
- > >over a dollar a share and is expected to do so again next year.
- > >It's only trading at 9$. Anyone know what up with Micropolis?
- > >Looks like a buy so far...
- > [ ... ]
- > Also, I have a vague recollection of a hard drive manufacturer
- > in 1988 or so being accused of cooking the books. As I recall,
- > they were accused of shipping bricks (I swear, that's the way
- > I remember it) to make it look like they were shipping more
- > than they actually were. Was that Micropolis? I'm pretty sure
- > it started with an M, and I remember confusing two such companies
- > at the time.
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- That was MicroSci, not Micropolis. Different companies. MicroSci
- was doing more than cooking the books; they were intentionally
- shipping nonfunctional drives to meet orders and claim sales.
-
- I'm not sure if MicroSci still exists; I haven't seen anything
- about them recently.
-
- Gary Heston, at home...
- gary@cdthq.uucp
-