[A6] A6 & SX

[David Evans]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:14:56PM -0800, Mike Peake wrote:
> The sidebar in SOS regarding the battle between
> the engineers and the marketing department was
> told to SOS by...the marketing department.

  Yeah; I remember it being basically a rewrite of something that I read
online that David Bryce wrote.

> That
> is why it has a "spin" to it. We did NOT want it
> to be called A6 specifically because we thought
> that it was funny, owing to the fact that the
> custom chips are ASICs (Application Specific
> Integrated Circuits). It's _humorous_, but not
> the reason we had wanted that name.


  That was the straight face part.  How could that story be believable?  Just
how lame are you guys, anyway?  Jeez!

> I have since come to know that Andromeda is indeed
> the best possible name for the synth, have apologized
> to David, and we are brothers now.

  Heh heh.

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