Circuit diagrams are the lingua franca of the semiconductor industry.
They're also really, really big and swapped among engineers like your aunt's Christmas fruitcake. That was Wadsworth's problem. His company, Wadsworth-Pacific Manufacturing Associates Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif., brokers manufacturing supplies between North American semiconductor manufacturers and their Japanese suppliers. One corrupted attachment, and Wadsworth-Pacific could lose a sale. There wasn't enough time to express-deliver disks containing large files, he adds.