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From: cwc@mhuxd.UUCP (Chip Christ)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: re: chip supplies
Message-ID: <1289@mhuxd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 20:32:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 10 20:32:58 1984
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Manufacturers were also bitten by their customers' practice
of placing simultaneous orders for the same materials with
several manufacturers to see who would come up with the
goods first.  As long as demand was steaming along, no harm.
But when the recession hit...