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To: akidron who wrote (24930)10/5/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 70976
 
**OT**

J.R. Simplot, the largest shareholder in Micron, made his money selling potatoes to a little company called McDonald's. He is apparently quite a character. (I've never met him.) One of several JR stories going around the company has it that Micron was an early adopter of rapid thermal processing (RTP) because JR decided that since fast cooking was good for potatoes, it had to be good for semi chips, too.

Katherine



To: akidron who wrote (24930)10/7/1998 4:15:00 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd  Respond to of 70976
 
> Frito Lay's new organic chips are gonna be available to pc manufacturers in time for christmas

Good thing too! Us PC manufacturers survive on vending machine food in times of crisis, and the choices have been getting pretty boring lately

A few new kinds of chips would be welcome.

mg


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