“It changed people’s perception of a sleepy college town to a high-tech hub,” said Pike Powers, an Austin power broker who led the campaign to recruit Microelectronics and Computing Technology Corp. as well as later technology ventures. "Once you get on the front page of The New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal, you look at yourself differently. We became a hot property overnight. . . . From that time on, we never doubted we could win the big ones." Austin’s example is instructive to Waco as community leaders attempt a similar feat of economic reinvention based on research and development. Full Article at Waco Tribune-Herald