[Coco] Boring Again!

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Interesting story.  I've been to that store a few times back when I would travel to the valley for Microware.

I also happen to be in San Francisco attending WWDC and was at Steve's Keynote.
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Boisy G. Pitre
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On Jun 9, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As I drove past "1 Infinite Loop" today I decided that it was my job to report on Silicon Valley news about the person with his head in the cloud.
> 
> Steve Jobs made a second public appearance in a few days during his leave from sick leave in front of the Cupertino City Council to lobby for permission to build a Pentagon sized circular building complete with a forest in the center for Twelve Thousand (12,000) employees just to the North East.
> 
> The corridors will have no end so an Apple employee could walk to Infinity. (Just like the Pentagon. :D ) I had noted years ago that vacant land was trying to be assembled there but they were having problems. (Many vacant buildings here, but Apple is making lots of money.)
> 
> But you could get that from the news.
> 
> As I entered Halted Electronics earlier today to purchase two 6-LED modules to build a lamp that I cannot buy IMHO on the wall was an Invoice with Steve Jobs name for the purchase of an Oscilloscope.
> 
> There was a hand written note on it that was very confusing. The store name on the invoice was Haltek but the note said a printing error occurred and it should have been Halted. But it also said the Invoices were for the new occupant of the building which was Haltek. This was Halted's wall.
> 
> He sold the Electronic Surplus business and almost went out of business selling hydraulics before restocking the shelves with Electronics.
> 
> So I was buying electronics at the same store at the same time as Steve Jobs was building the first apple.
> 
> http://www.halted.com/ccp25323-6-white--8-30v--74ma--30-6000mcd-led-module-lha-06b30-n-00-led052.htm
> 
> SHF
> 
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