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  • Date Created: 14 Jun 2015 8:56 AM Date Created
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Workshopshed
14 Jun 2015

Some fantastic examples from model making company Pantograph, I particularly like the binary type writer

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www.spoon-tamago.com/2015/06/08/pantograph-imagines-gadgets-from-a-parallel-world/

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 10 years ago +5
    This one reminded me of an event long ago: I was working in a job where they had mainframe run but operators that were young. Since they worked with printers and things, they would occasionally have a…
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    fvan over 10 years ago +3
    There must be some kind of enchantment at work here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1SiveWVIIo www.youtube.com/watch
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    mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to clem57 +2
    < he had an unpleasant visit with his manager the same day > No sense of humour these managers ..... If he had any intelligence the manager would have said "... it sounds like its dropping the odd packet…
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    clem57 over 10 years ago

    This one reminded me of an event long ago:

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    I was working in a job where they had mainframe run but operators that were young. Since they worked with printers and things, they would occasionally have a broken one. One day a manager of a unrelated department walks in the large area and asks what was wrong with the printer in the corner of the room. Without a pause, the operator walks up to the machine and pulls out a connection of the data cable and puts it in one ear. After a long bit, he says "Come here and listen". The manager walks up doing the same thing and replies "I hear nothing". Where upon he answers "that is the problem"! Needles to say he had an unpleasant visit with his manager the same day. image

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    mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to clem57

    < he had an unpleasant visit with his manager the same day >

    No sense of humour these managers .....

     

    If he had any intelligence the manager would have said "... it sounds like its dropping the odd packet...."

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    mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to clem57

    < he had an unpleasant visit with his manager the same day >

    No sense of humour these managers .....

     

    If he had any intelligence the manager would have said "... it sounds like its dropping the odd packet...."

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    clem57 over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1

    This manager had very little business being in IT, unfortunatelyimage.

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    balearicdynamics over 10 years ago in reply to clem57

    in my short working life with companies I worked no more than three months with managers. In a very far past of a previous life...

     

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