Re: T9000 status

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From: Roger Shepherd
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:10

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In article <66222@hydra.gatech.EDU>, henshaw@emperor.gatech.edu (Andy Henshaw) writes:
|> 
|>  I think that I am not atypical in thinking that this shortening
|> of Texas Instruments' name sounds very weird to people here in the
|> States.  Generally, we refer to them as TI.  

Ah! Around here TI (Tube INvestments) is the name of a company which makes 
all sorts of things to do with metal tubes.  It causes great disappoint
when reading the financial pages of the paper when there is a headline
about ``Major new product from TI'' and it turns out to be a climbing frame
or a bicycle. 

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From: roger@gimli.inmos.co.uk (Roger Shepherd)
Subject: Re: T9000 status
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