From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 14:48:48 MST
> (Michael M. Butler <mmb@spies.com>):
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:38:26 -0900, John Grigg <starman2100@lycos.com>
> wrote:
> >And I believe it was a distant ancestor of yours, a "Spike BigRocks", who
> >did the conceptual engineering work for the first human riding, rock
> >dropping pterodactyl bomber! What was the name of the big corporation he
> >worked for?
>
> Rockheed. *DUH*.
> But it was Spike Stones, IIRC.
Rockheed/Martin was a major player, but they did get some competition
from Northrock/Grumman and, of course, Rockwell International.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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