Re: Jon Backus

Oh well, never mind then. "Magoo, you've done it again (another
Backus.)"

Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WirtAtmar@xxxxxxx [mailto:WirtAtmar@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 4:16 PM
> To: Johnson, Tracy; HP3000-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Jon Backus
>
>
> Tracy writes:
>
> > He now works at Beechglen, a 3rd party support group for the HP3000
> > and other HP stuff.
>
> I don't know if anyone else publicly or privately corrected
> Tracy's response,
> but to add great confusion to the original question, there
> were two John
> Backus'es on the HP3000 list at one time. They just spelled
> their names slightly
> differently: John and Jon, if I remember correctly.
>
> I don't believe that the Backus at Beechglen is the the one
> that Christian is
> asking for.
>
> Best,
>
> Wirt
>
>

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