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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <ly...@garlic.com> writes:
> other folklore ... guy doing M&A didn't bother to check ROLM's books
> the quarter that they were acquired ... turns out it was the quarter
> ROLM went into the RED.

I.B.M. to Sell Rolm to Siemens
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/14/business/ibm-to-sell-rolm-to-siemens.html?pagewanted=all

Four years ago, when I.B.M. purchased Rolm, an innovative Silicon Valley
company, many experts said the stage was being set for a global
high-technology showdown between I.B.M., the world's largest computer
maker, and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the
telecommunications giant. Ahead of Its Time

... snip ...

later after leaving IBM ... was doing financial standards and secure
chip. Siemens was in the process of spinning of its chip business as
Infineon and we were dealing with person that would head up Infineon
... started out with some offices in the old ROLM campus ... but they
were getting building on 1st street (up near intersection with 101,
near airport). Infineon was then listed on NYSE and guy got to ring
the bell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infineon_Technologies

We had meetings with Infineon in Siemens chip offices in Munich and
asked to do security walk through of their new secure chip plant in
Dresden. They did some runs of chips for some pilot ... also used at BAI
world wide retail banking show in 1999 ... old reference
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#217 AADS/X9.59 demo & standards at BAI (world-wide retail banking) show
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224 X9.59/AADS announcement at BAI this week

some X9.59 standards ref
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
some AADS refs and patents
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads

recent post about chipcards imploding around turn of century
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#94 Predicting the future in five years as seen from 1983
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#110 Making Computers Secure

old afc post mentioning Dresden walk-through
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#53 Getting Old