On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:04:51 -0500, Ted MacNEIL wrote:

>When I started working,in 1981, they called themselves Storage Technology 
>Corporation, or STC.
>
Which had severe trademark problems.

>They changed to STK in later yeats.
> 
NYSE ticker symbol.  Branding police attempted (remarkably
unsuccessfully) to dissuade its use in other contexts.  Keystroke
parsimony.

-- gil

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