small valves

[Paxton Hoag]

Hey.....

My stepmother threaded core for Hughes Aircraft in California, I think
in the 1960s. She sent me a sample of her work which was done under a
microscope back then. Little did I appreciate it. She was good at
detail work.

Paxton
Astoria, OR
USA

:
> > Successful commercial core memories require grossly underpaid
> > philipino housewives or other exploitable labor; welcome to the
> > fruits of capitalism.
> >
> > I bought a few hundred thousand new/unused plain cores on ePay a
> > few years ago, for about twenty bucks. The problem is they're
> > about .005" OD! If you're going to make your own at home without
> > slave labor to go blind for you, you'll probably want cores large
> > enough to handle.
> 
> Actually, I've heard a rumour that IBM in the earliest days used
> professional Scandinavian seamstresses to thread their core - But later
> they definately used Asian labor until finally the cores became too
> small for humans to thread, when they made machines. The machines were
> far more expensive than having a human do it - IIRC they had ways of
> doing it automatically since the 709 but they were too expensive.


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Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA