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From: clay@oravax.UUCP (McFarland)
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Subject: Re: The New Chips
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Date: 2 Feb 88 18:17:14 GMT
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In article <40675@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>
>Everyone that knew that Texas Instruments started life as a division of 
>IBM raise you right hand. Ok, for you trivia fans, can you name the
>antitrust case where IBM was ordered to divest themselves of that business?
>(No, I don't remember it off hand, but I do remember talking about it around
>'77 - '78 when IBM was defending itself against Memorex et al)
>
>--Chuck McManis

Everyone with your right hand up go stand in the corner. Texas
Instruments started life in the 30's as Geophysical Services, Inc. In
the late 40's GSI merged with an obscure Arizona company which had a
Big Board listing and changed the company name to Texas Instruments.
GSI remained a division of TI. In the 60's some Semiconductor Division
managers and marketeers seemed to think that TI belonged to IBM, but
the relationship was never more than friendly coercion ("If you go
into the computer business, we'll make our own semiconductors...").
The coercion had some effect; the first computer for which I was
architect was described in the TI annual report as a "special purpose
digital data-handling device". That should get a smiley face, but it's
a direct quote.


Clay Brooke-McFarland		    Odyssey Research Associates

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