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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KM who wrote (36275)	11/18/1997 1:18:00 PM
From: Tom Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

RE: OT My day job Truff, The Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway. (It's not my choice of name. I inherited it. I'd have called it something like "Industrial Heritage Institute of the Hudson Mohawk Region," or maybe a sexier version of same, anything that won't automatically get the response I get now when I tell people the name, which of course is: "That's nice. What does it do?") To make a long story short, I'm a PhD American historian who specializes in the history of American technology and science, and I bailed from a tenured academic post at the end of 1996. Too many hours wasting my talents correcting sophomore grammar. My pitch is that the area here near Albany and Troy, New York, was the "Silicon Valley of the nineteenth century," that the area can put that past to good use, and that study of the history of this area can be useful in current policy debates about how best to use a cutting-edge technological focus for regional economic development. If your eyes haven't totally glazed over yet, you can check the very rudimentary web site I've created for the organization: rpi.edu The organization sank itself into something of a penniless, moribund hole in the past few years, so I'm struggling to bring it back. So far this year, I've managed to triple the revenues over the 1996 total, but that gets the sum to a level that's smaller than some of your losses during the little correction a while back. The long-term goal is to make it the best regional industrial heritage program in the country, full stop. That'll take another few months. <g> Thanks for asking. After all that "good-looking corpse" stuff, I hesitate to ask what YOUR day job is. <vbg> Cheers, Tom