08-06-15 01:00 BOB KLAHN wrote to ED VANCE about Wow...

 BK> {at}MSGID: 
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.   

73


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