On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:11:00 -0400, Hank©
wrote:

No, I am not. I worked for companies who were developing equipment for the Internet in the
late 80's and early 90's. I have the Lucite trinkets to prove it. Most of our potential sales
were to commercial corporations who needed to inter-connect their internal PCs and other
computer assets to make far greater use of their compute investments. Bridges and Routers
where the needed items within and at the borders of the Intranets to enable the Internet to
explode.

Peradyne?

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Paradyne.

Paradyne was a modem development leader but the big technology of the
late 80s and early 90s was routers and switches for corporate
intranets. One of my big investment "fails" was not recognizing and
acting on that trend. Sometime around 1992 or1993 I was at a high
level project review meeting with senior technology managers of a big
NY financial services company. One of the managers was being publicly
ripped to shreds because he could not meet a critical project
deliverable for Cisco routers in spite of his best efforts and major
customer status. I made a mental note to think about investing in
Cisco but never followed up. Opportunity lost.