Not This Year
Kirt's Cogitations™ #32

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Not This Year

The top 300 revenue producers for 2001 amongst high tech companies was led by IBM at $85B. Matsushita came in at #2 with $54B. Nokia came in at #13 with $28B. Microsoft was next at $27B. Oracle, who's exec topped the compensation list, hit #40 with $11B. At 150 was First International Computer (who?) at $3B. Dead last at #300 was Orion Electric Co. with a paltry $97.5M. Dang, just missed this list, too. If only it had gone to #301.

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RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...