29 Jan
2011
29 Jan
'11
9:32 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:57 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
... Everyone I knew back in the databook era would
make up a
phony company name, and then get flooded with databooks, industrial
periodicals, and best of all, samples!
I figured that one out when I was about 16. I needed a fake company
name or I couldn't ever get datasheets, etc. After I invented one,
the stuff all flooded in (mostly, I was interested in RCA COSMAC stuff
and Synertek/Rockwell 6502-family stuff, though the preliminary 68000
datasheet I latched onto held specs beyond my wildest 8-bit dreams).
I still get junkmail with the company name I came up
with 28 years ago!
Me too.
-ethan