On Thu 19 Nov at 20:24 Bob Lawrence (3:712/610.12) wrote to Brenton Vettoretti:

 BV> Just a short note to let you know I'm still alive. I 
 BV> got home
BV> last night after a two week stint in Melbourne where I 
BV> had the pleasure of sleeping in their new Myer store. I 
BV> wouldn't have thought it possible, but the guys in 
BV> Melbourne are worse than those in Sydney.

 BL>  Wait till you get to Adelaide...

Well, the Myer Centre in Adelaide cost more than Parliament House Canberra...

BV> You wouldn't believe what they got wrong on that thing. 
BV> For starters, they built the bloody thing in a perfect 
BV> mirror image.

 BL>  ROFL! I wish I had a dollar for every printed circuit board 
 BL> done that way...

I've only had one PCB mass-produced and I made extremely sure that it was
done correctly. 

BV> Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. In the lab, the 
BV> main motor was on my left hand side, but I was at the 
BV> back of the machine. Here, the motor was still on my 
BV> left, but I was in front of the machine....GROAN !!!!

BV> When I called them up and tore their heads off, they 
BV> couldn't understand why it wasn't a simple 5 second code change.

 BL>  Just write the code from right to left... no problemo.

Hmmm... maybe code so that there is a global define for whether you are
making a dextro or levo version? A bit like the Japanese television sets
that display in mirror image (with a simple mirror/normal switch) so that
they can be seen correctly in barber shop mirrors by customers getting
their hair cut.
 
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