[Boatanchors] Tidbit

[Nick England]

And, of course, the origin was ham radio - the founder (Ron N5IN)
started by selling a kit for the "Digi-Key" electronic keyer.

Good folks to deal with!
cheers,
Nick K4NYW

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:56 AM, David Knepper <collinsradio at comcast.net> wrote:
> Unedited
>
> I called DigiKey this morning (Sunday) and was pleasantly surprised to speak
> to a service representative and a technician in Minnesota - "You betcha."
>
> I was told that they ship 16,000 packages a day by UPS.  The owner of the
> company started the business in his garage and he still lives in Thief River
> Falls, population 10,000.
>