In message , Paul 
Herber  writes
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>>stuff. In fact the only thing I really remember is "Graded bases make finer
>>transistors", and I'm not entirely sure what that means anymore.

YANAOU again. (Though I think whoever told it to us passed it off as if 
it was his own; I should have known better. [Unless of course we shared 
the same teacher/lecturer, but I can't remember who it was now; I was at 
BCS then UKC.])
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>I recollect, must have been in the mid to late 70s I suppose, whenever
>I heard the phrase "hey, we must touch base soon" I though "It's
>people like you who blow up CMOS chips"
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Do you remember when it first started to appear, it was called COSMOS? 
(And I can remember what it stands for ...)
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