| Thirty five years ago, David's late friend Adrian Frylink III, AIL's purchasing manager, told him how fed up he was with late deliveries on small items like coax adapters, connectors and attenuators. We put a few long lead connectors and pads in stock and ran a contest. What do we name a distributor that only stocked microwave components? A week later we gave a bouquet of roses to Stella, the receptionist at AIL who come up with the brilliant name: Microwave Distributors Company. Four years later Earl Valder the Sperry buyer suggested a different name for our assembled, manufactured and value added products - MIDISCO. |
1963. The year MDC was born. Gold was $35. per ounce, a new car was #3,233. A new house averaged $12,650. A loaf of bread was 22 cents and a gallon of gas was $.029. The Dow Jones was 646-767. Soviet missiles were pulled from Cuba but they put the first woman in space and we established the "hotline" with the USSR to help avert war. Our president was John Kennedy until he was assassinated in Dallas. Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President and Winston Churchill retired. About 200,000 demonstrators participated in a Washington D.C. Freedom March. Billie Sol Estes was convicted of mail fraud, the atomic test ban treaty was signed and the U.S. Postmaster inaugurated the zip code. |
