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 --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------