08-06-15 01:00 BOB KLAHN wrote to ED VANCE about Wow...
BK> @MSGID: <55C33983.1389.windowsb@capcity2.synchro.net>
Howdy! Again Bob,
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BK> I worked in a factory, doing industrial automation, for over
BK> 35
BK> years. We started with hard wired logic, but most of the time
BK> was with computer controls.
BK> Next to our shop was the tool and die maker's shop. Their
BK> non-climate controlled work area was in between.
BK> I was always amazed, they would make something, measurements
BK> to
BK> a ten thousandth of an inch, and expect it to work the first
BK> time. Guess that is important when you make something out of
BK> solid metal. Can't reprogram it.
In the 1950's I remember seeing a picture in a Mechanix Illustrated
magazine of a tiny Drill Bit that employees at a General Electric plant
In the USA had made and iirc they sent it to a Watch Company in
Switzerland to show them what they accomplished.
Later the Swiss sent the Drill Bit back to G.E. with a hole they
drilled in it.
The picture in the magazine showed the bit with the hole in it.
Some things like that I haven't forgot.....yet. <grin>
73
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