We offer a series of Integrated Circuits including a monostable multivibrator, a digital replacement for the classic 555 timer, as well as programmable musical sound generators.

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01/29/2004

We have exciting news, we decided to open our store again. We will have HTC555 and HTC2500 available in our store shortly, but we will need your feedback to decide on additional part releases. We have had a poor economy the last few years, which created several trends. One of those trends was the systematic destruction of our engineering pool. The job market also suffered greatly the last few years but the worst consequence of the poor economy is yet to come. The Engineering job vacuum created by the collapsing technology bubble forced lots of talented engineers to switch industries or settle for less pay doing unrelated jobs. Those who had any dreams of "job security" got a wakeup call from the Doppler sound of the technology train passing by, this is what shipped technology jobs abroad. This train took any hope for a steady job from fresh graduates and forced college freshmen to think hard about other fields before even considering technology. In a few years there will be a high shortage of engineers and if there is any technology development by then, we will be forced to import young talent from abroad. This is fine as long as industry does not treat engineers like a short term expense that they can get anytime they wish. I knew some engineers with H1 visas that were looking for jobs and that was not a pretty picture. There was a time when engineers were respected members of society, the educators who made wonderful inventions come to life, but those days have passed. Imagine a world where we win the war on terror, triple oil production, populate the earth with nuclear power stations and refuse to acknowledge global warming. To top all this off we stop any major technological development, practically destroying our talent pool and work on creating low-tech jobs. This is while we increase the funding of our military and send them to various "hotspots" (more then hundred throughout the world) to defend our political interests. These would be the days that would be remembered as the dark days of our civilization. This example just proves where we don't want to go.