On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:03:22 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:35:44 -0700, the renowned John Larkin
wrote:

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:13:41 GMT, Joerg
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:50:59 -0700, Don Bowey
wrote:


On 9/4/07 9:59 PM, in article , "Eeyore"
wrote:



Fred Bloggs wrote:


Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Fred Bloggs wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

Fred Bloggs wrote:

Fred, Why don't you move to France where you'll fit right in ?:-)

I think I will, I would enjoy living in France, at least there's some
semblance of culture there.


Be careful! A lot of that 'culture' is resistant to all known
antibiotics. On second thought: Enjoy yourself, while you last.

French medical science rivals the world, to this day they continue to
make great breakthroughs. Louis Pasteur is the Isaac Newton of modern
microbiology, a great genius.

French engineering is pretty good too.

Graham



French Fries are better.


Hey, this place is just swarming with French cars and semiconductors
and A380's and A350XWBs and electronic test equipment and cell phones
and computers.

Not!

Hey, look at this:

http://www.greenfieldtechnology.com/

This guy copied my logo, my product line, and my business model. But
not very well.


Optical pulse width rise time 1nsec? Yawn. I am sure you guys run
circles around them. I wouldn't be too concerned ;-)

Your logo is the surf, their logo looks like anorexic birds.

Our logo is Mt Tamalpias, as seen from the Bay Bridge toll plaza. That
should be obvious!

The guy who started Greenfield originally proposed being our rep. His
idea was that he'd set up a service facility in France, to repair our
stuff, and that we should start by our sending him all our schematics.
Really!

John

Were you tempted for even a moment to come up with a few 'special'
schematics?




No, that would have been mean. B was force-retired from In-Snec, where
he led the development of the 7 GHz scan-converter-tube based
oscilloscope, the one Tek sold for a while. Greenfield still sells it;
I can't imagine where they still get the tubes, or what the beast
costs. Straight digital scopes are up to 20 GHz, so I'd imagine the
market is dwindling.

I'm sympathetic to his situation, but he should design his own stuff.
He just tried to buy another of our products, our tiny delay
generator, but backed off when I asked him what he wanted it for.

John