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Re: E-14 launched (website on-line)

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From: Reg Hems
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:00
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<Pine.HPP.3.96L.990114004252.9658B-100000@club.eng.cam.ac.uk>,
   Nigel Parker <95ncp@eng.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> ACORN LAUNCHES ELEMENT 14

> 14 January 1999, Cambridge UK-- Acorn Group plc (ACN) today 
> announced that its 100%-held operating company Acorn Computers 
> Limited is adopting a new name, Element 14 Ltd.

> Element 14 is targeted .... Intellectual Property (IP) .... is 
> aggressively growing its sales of the Active range of highly.... 

Forgive me for being na�ve perhaps, but is this a wind-up? 

I have worked for 35 years as Product Manager (Marketing) for an 
Engineering Company, swallowed up in 1965 by an US conglomerate and
this announcement uses the PC lingo of M-speak.  
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* Cherish the old to understand the new - Japanese proverb

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From: Reg Hems <reghems@argonet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: E-14 launched (website on-line)
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