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