[Amps] more info on distributors

[G0RUZ Conrad]

I totally agree with you John.

In fact I am quite sure that at least two of my friends are delighted that
Richardson are in existence as their practices have ensured their employment
for many years. I for one am glad of Richardson's existence, were it not for
them many products would simply not be available in the UK.

I really don't see what the 'attractiveness' of the employees has to do with
anything. It is exactly this kind of prevalent attitude that keeps women out
of engineering and damages the image of an engineer as an unwashed somewhat
perverse anorak/dork.

Conrad G0RUZ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of John T. M. Lyles
> Sent: 13 April 2005 17:28
> To: amps at contesting.com
> Subject: [Amps] more info on distributors
>
>
> It always amazes me how unprofessional some folks are on email, with
> direct attacks and libelous statements. While I certainly understand
> the dislike for monopolistic practices, and big companies which move
> in an run off the small firms (can you say Walmart?) the firm in
> question below (Richardson Electronics) is one of the few companies
> in the US with the guts and money to buy up the remaining failing
> tube companies which would otherwise be totally obsolete. (for
> example, Amperex, some Philips parts, GE/National ignitrons, and a
> bunch of solid state RF designs). We depend on them to keep supplying
> these parts, for older sytems. Also, as a major distributor of
> capacitors such as the German Draloric brand, big R has them in stock
> in some cases. Most companies cannot afford to keep the inventory
> that R does. If you can't use their services, then don't bother
> attacking them.
>
> The Eimac-Varian case was at many years ago, past history. The second
> posting below makes no sense at all.
>
> >As I understand it, Eddie's monopoly-deal with Eimac-Varian resulted in
> >the DoJ making him an offer he could not refuse.    IMO, there is much
> >truth in Randy Newman's song "Short People".
>
> >However, to his great credit, Eddie is an employer of those
> >misfortunate young women who would otherwise probably be unemployed -
> >and, sadly, perhaps even homeless - because they are so attractive that
> >other employers would reject them out of fear that they would  be
> >disruptive in the workplace.
> >Congrats on doin' the right thing, Eddie.
>
>
> 73
> John
> K5PRO
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