Funny.... we make (since the 60's) bipolar power devices too, if I'm not mistaken, ABMs already use our 3055s...
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Cool! Too many developers here seem to have street names set by broken, limited vocabulary, random name generators.
I miss trade shows. Other than the one that required me to wear (and ate) my suit.
The swag is wearing a smile.
Also, much nicer than one I recall on the border of the tourist section in Juarez.
OK, I know what the ink pens on the table are for. After that, not so much.
I actually enjoy doing them. I can think of many things worse than talking tech.
Regular core exercises and Adidas with cloudfoam insoles help.
Our cork screw/bottle openers are popular. I ordered pens that light up and sunglasses for my next one.
We had slippers with our logo embroidered on the front. They were the most popular item at SEMICON West. All the ladies wore them to the after show parties. Cheap advertising and had quite a few PO'ed marketing execs complaining that their bosses beat them up for not thinking about it first.
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Just down the road from me, Falstaff Place.
The pamphlets are for reading. The note pads are for writing on. The rest are semiconductors and boards, useful for building fly-by-wire cars and various other sorts of amplifiers. You're welcome.
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The music has a definite T-Rex vibe!
A comic con is a sort of trade show. We mainly give away bookmarks, but we also have lots of pipe cleaners for kids (of whatever age) to make stuff. Pretty tame compared to most trade shows, but hey, we're not getting big orders.
If it's like the beer, it must be a bad part of town.
I was thinking back about cool tradeshow swag. One year I got a Dilbert tee shirt. Another I brought home an R/C dirigible. We still use two letter openers I got at shows in the 80s (I think Sun Microsystems and Fuji storage). I got soe really cool mugs at shows. The craziest thing was at a show in the early 90s while I was with Pencom; two of us were sent to a party in the hotel suite of a competitor (owned by a couple of sleazy ex-Pencommies). They had nearly nude booth bimbos plying the men with drinks and trying to rub up against everyone, complete with suggestions there could be more offered if we did business with the company.[1][2] They insisted we each take a somewhat bulky, somewhat ugly keychain with us as we left. It turned out to have a secret compartment with a (still packaged) c0nd0m. Yeah, seriously.
[1] The Chick Magnet[tm] had his magnets set to REPULSE. He still had to do some dodging.
[2] I have no idea how serious they were, but given the stories about the owners, it might well have been true, depending on what the company would get from it. The name of that company was flushed from my mind long ago. I just think of it as Sleazy Ex-Pencommies.
[1] The Chick Magnet[tm] had his magnets set to REPULSE. He still had to do some dodging.
[2] I have no idea how serious they were, but given the stories about the owners, it might well have been true, depending on what the company would get from it. The name of that company was flushed from my mind long ago. I just think of it as Sleazy Ex-Pencommies.
That song does for sure. One of my favorites from a favorite.
