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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld Expo Rumors...
Message-ID: <15607@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 12:51:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 13 12:51:35 1987
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in article <3657@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, graifer@net1.ucsd.edu (Dan Graifer) says:
[ in response to a rumor from BMUG that SuperMac had bought Levco ... ]
-> Quoted without permission from the Wednesday, Aug. 12 Business section of
-> the San Diego County edition of the L.A. Times (page IV-3):
-> 
-> San Diego Levco Corp., a closely held manufacturer of accessories for 
-> Apple Macintosh personal computers, has signed a definitive agreement
-> to be acquired by Scientific Micro Systems Inc., a publicly held computer
-> peripherals company based in Mountain View.
-> 
-> [...stuff about size of companies, and their officers ...]
-> 
-> San Diego Levco president Roger Phillips said his company, which he 
-> described as basically an engineering company, saw the acquisition
-> as attractive because of SMS's marketing and distributiion capabilities.
-> 
-> ---END QUOTE---
-> 
-> Hmmm.  Either the Delphi posters or the Times got their stories scrambled.
-> I haven't seen Scientific Micro Systems in any of the Mac rags... anybody
-> know who these guys are?

According to a report in the San Jose Murky News, SMS bought SuperMac a while
ago.  SMS is an established company formerly known for DEC Q-Bus peripherals.

Mike Khaw
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