On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:51:52 -0700, John Maxwell wrote:

>Many years ago when Honeywell was looking at buying Fairchild 
>Semiconductor we nicknamed them Farewell Honeychild but Schlumberger 
>got them instead so they were either Fairchburger or Slumbergerchild. 
>Then Phillips bought Signetics and they became Siglips which sounded 
>a lot better than Philnetics. A little very old NSC humor when I was 
>there a few decades ago.
>
>John Maxwell
>

I was working in Fairchild's Test Systems Group at the time of the
buyout. Many of us called the new parent 'Slumburger' with a
thoroughly American pronunciation. :=)


Regards, Bob

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