On 12 Jan 2006 16:04:15 GMT, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:20:09 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

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?

Why sure. Can you red Chinese tech manuals?

Funny how my Made-In-China keyboard with its @#%^$}# sticky "a" key
laid that out. :-\

On 12 Jan 2006 07:44:35 -0800, Winfield Hill
wrote:



We have scads of large wealthy "newer" high-tech companies
headquartered here, that you may not often hear of, like
Thermo Electron, Bruker, Summit Technology, EMC, etc., and
others you do know, with a substantial presence, like Agilent.


Ah, Bruker, my arch-enemy. I make the gradient drivers and temperature
controllers for Varian. I've also had bad experiences with Bruker AXS
in Madison. They both seem to be very NIH and very PhD oriented, so
they're hard to deal with and especially sell to.

John

depends upon the resistance and temperature of the filament

a small grain of wheat bulb will work to 500 MHz..


Mark