Re: DEC selling businesses: disk drives too?

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From: Greg Roody
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 15:22

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In article <1994May11.033452.21665@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>, bruno@comet.enet.dec.com (Father Gregory) writes...
> 
>In article <2qod9d$trk@locutus.rchland.ibm.com>, 
>cecchi@vnet.ibm.com (Del Cecchi) writes...
>> 
>>I didn't think you guys made disk drives, but only bought them from others, put
>>them in boxes, and resold them.  I believe dec's operation builds actual disk
>>drives including platters, actuators, servos and all that kind of stuff.  
>>That's a long way and a whole other line of work than putting some drives in 
>>a box with a controller and inventing a fancy name for it.  
>>-- 
> 
>     Suffice it to say that you are misinformed.
> 
>                                Greg

Greg, I believe you missed the point on this.  It doesn't look like he was 
saying that Digital didn't build drives.  He was refering to the base reply 
from another company......

/greg

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From: roody@dsm.enet.dec.com (Greg Roody)
Subject: Re: DEC selling businesses: disk drives too?
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