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To: Xpiderman who wrote (27882)1/26/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: Gottfried  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
Xy, KLIC's IR even posted the news release on the SI thread. How's
that for service?
Message 7484148
They discuss orders, cancellations quite openly.

Gottfried



To: Xpiderman who wrote (27882)1/26/1999 4:40:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 70976
 
Here's a novel use for chips:

news.com

Excerpt: Paris putting chips in trees
By Reuters
Special to CNET News.com
January 26, 1999, 12:45 p.m. PT
Tree surgeons are bugging each of the 90,000 trees which line the streets of Paris in a monitoring operation of unprecedented scale.

"It takes less than 15 minutes to embed a [one inch] long computer chip in the trunk and enter the data in a computer," said Christian Mantaux, a tree surgeon for 20 years who assures nature lovers that the chips do not harm trees.