F5 currently holds roughly half the market, having long overtaken Cisco as the number one ADC supplier.

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One such company is Agree Realty Corp. ( NYSE: ADC), which saw buying by Chief Executive Officer Richard Agree.

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Brad Thomas has no ownership position in ARCP, NNN, O, ARCT, or ADC.

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The 64, 000-square-foot Pathmark on 125th Street, Harlem's first supermarket in more than three decades, is built on land purchased by ADC.

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There is no Level 3 cache, RAM maxes out at 640 MB and there is no support for ADC or DVI monitors.

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The news wasn't that big a boost for ADC shares, since analysts had been looking for EPS of 10 cents, according to Reuters Estimates.

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Don't worry -- it plays nicely with your other components -- there's also an ADC stage so that the unit can accept analog inputs from traditional preamplifiers.

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Only a few of these modular components have been designed so far: the AVR-X (an Arduino-compatible microcontroller), FRAM-X (512 byte chunks of stackable Ferroelectric RAM) and ADC-X (an 8-channel analog to digital converter).

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"Darren is able to translate what's going on here to people who have no other connection to Harlem than riding the train to the suburbs and looking out the window, " says ADC President Karen Phillips.

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