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To: duncan moyer who wrote (1329)	1/2/2000 12:13:00 AM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12236

On page 33 of the January 2000 Issue of Scientific American, there is a full page advertisement for The Tech Museum in San Jose, California. It is sponsored by Applied Materials, the Department of Commerce, and sgi. The illustration is of a little girl holding to her ear a tin can with a string. The headline reads, "CHANCES ARE YOUR KIDS HAVE NEVER HEARD OF IRWIN JACOBS. VISIT THE TECH AND HE MIGHT JUST INSPIRE THEM." For obvious reasons, most everyone who reads this thread or any of the other SI Q threads would know soon enough who Irwin Jacobs is. I thought it was really interesting that the ad assumes that the readership of Scientific American would know him, too. thetech.org

To: duncan moyer who wrote (1329)	1/3/2000 4:35:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12236

How things change! $500m revenue by the end of 1999 eh? You know, in all the pandemonium, I forgot that it's the end of 1Q and we'll get the results soon. My pick is a very rapid increase in sales over the pre-Xmas period. Just in case anyone misses it, airfiberinc.com which is funded partly by Qualcomm to send data by laser to fixed locations. The San Diego Engineering School is full of this stuff and here it comes out of the lab and into 3D. Not good for OFDM, WiLan and other 'last mile' technologies to compete with. Mqurice