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From: mark@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mark Shaw)
Subject: Re: Rumors
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 16:28:59 GMT
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In article <1993Apr2.174851.22659@cs.unca.edu>, kepley@photon.phys.unca.edu (Brad Kepley) writes:
|> I just heard an unbelievable rumor that Motorola has decided to drop their
|> integrated circuit manufacture business.  Apparently a Digikey rep called 
|> one of our production coordinators, for out information so that we could
|> make plans to deal with this, that Moto was getting out.  Anybody else
|> get a call about this?
|> 
|> Too much for me.  It's about like Intel announcing they were getting out
|> of the IC business.


This rumor didn't happen to appear on April 1st?

If this DigiKey rep was serious, I think I will buy my parts elsewhere.
If that is the way they do business, you cannot trust them.

Mark
