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October 1999, Week 4

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At 21:47 10/22/1999 -0400, Wirt writ:
>A few years ago, when I was reasonably seriously suggesting that CSY be made
>a wholly-owned, indepedent subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard, something like the
>Agilent model HP came up with later, I was asked: "Well, if it did come true,
>what would you call it?" The question came as a surprise to me, and I hadn't
>given it any thought, but because we were in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the
>time, I said, "Santa Fe." It's a trendy name, and one that everyone is
>familiar with.
>

At the MPE round-table (I think) at this year's Interact Tony Furnivall
made a similar suggestion about spinning off CSY.  It seemed like a
spur-of-the-moment comment, but now I see it wasn't as off-the-wall as I
first thought.


Tom Brandt                            Northtech Systems, Inc.
+1 734-769-5040                     313 N. First Street
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