On 11 Jan 2006 17:52:16 -0800, Winfield Hill
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote...

I watched the money-making portable test division in Phoenix
get trashed by the ****-heads in Massachusetts... now you know
_part_ of the source of my animosity toward Massa2****s ;-)

That's an amazing extension. Plenty of healthy Massachusetts
companies have been sucked dry by their out-of-state owners.
Obviously the ability to mis-manage a company from a distance
is not notably a Massachusetts sin, unless you're obsessed with
the Harvard Business School's modest influence on the issue.

It is sadly true that many of the old-line Rt 128 companies are
gone... DEC, Data General, GR, Sensitive Instruments, Clevite,
Transitron, probably others. Have others popped up to take their
place? Analog Devices, for sure.

John