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#327,021
Miles_ONeal said:
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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If I follow, I can build a fly by wire car, read the pamphlets and make notes on the pads and not have to focus on driving. Cool.
 
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#327,022
Miles_ONeal said:
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.
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You had to reverse the polarity of your magnet. So to speak.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
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.
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When SEMICON West was held at the San Mateo fairgrounds, the back parking lot was full of RVs. You can decide what they were used for.
 
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dagrev said:
You are one of the lucky ones! If you ever run across one (if still made), open and pour it out to spare some dope from drinking it.
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Closed in 2005. Some of the labels were purchased by PBR.

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