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- From: brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: MLIS (was Micropolis (MILS)
- Message-ID: <14098@optilink.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 04:12:27 GMT
- References: <22JAN199310170290@vx.cis.umn.edu> <C1AE0s.4n7@athena.cs.uga.edu> <C1E96z.4LC@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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- In article <C1E96z.4LC@athena.cs.uga.edu>, hal@pollux (Hal N. Brooks) writes:
- >
- > It seems I'm not the only one that has trouble keeping all those
- > 'M' companies straight, because Gary Hester seems to think it
- > was Micro Science.
- >
- > I'm sure you must be right, too! :-)
-
- I'm not only right, I'm verifiable. The WSJ had a front-page article on the
- Miniscribe mess - don't recall when that was, though.
-
- >
- > My advice: just to be on the safe side, never order a hard drive
- > of a manufacturer whose name starts with an 'M'. :-)
- >
-
- You never know. Turns out that the assets of M-iniscribe were bought by
- M-axtor (can't figure why they did this - bricks ain't too useful in
- California what with earthquakes and all).
-
- Brad Yearwood brad@optilink.com {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad
- Petaluma, CA
-