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To: Allan Harris who wrote (9188)	10/9/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15132

Allan, you humor is the best! I don't know if anyone was in the SF Bay Area in the 1970's. (I'm a native) There was a place called "Mathews TV and Stereo....top of the hill....Daly City" that had showrooms for buying their products. You could not just walk in and look, you had to have an escort. I went with a buddy when he was looking to buy and it was so funny. Once they got him interested in two systems, they'd have a pretty lady come over and actually ask him "Are you man enough for this system?" when he was looking at the more expensive one. No lie! Happy ending...we went over to Pacific Stereo and bought a similar system for a lower price using the "we can get it for this much at Mathews..." line. Kirk out (PS BOWG up ~100% from the possible bottom in the last few days...Still a LONG way to go since its meltdown...but I was sure buying when it was in true penny stock status!) PSS more trivia. I had a chemist on several of my development teams that was hired by Shockley as one of the first employees to work on wafer fab (this guy was 80 and still working at HP when I left!). They worked in the building on San Antonio Rd that later became "Pacific Stereo". His job was to work on "masks" to make something new called a "transistor". I think ergo office furnature is now being sold in that building though it should bet historical status! 8)