[cctalk] Re: Silly question about S-100 and video monitors

[Will Cooke via cctalk]

> On 09/01/2023 12:42 PM CDT Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/1/23 10:23, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
> > They made pistols:
> > https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23340620/singer-sewing-machine-company-45-pistol-gun/
> > 
> I love these seeming corporate mismatches. You know, Exxon purchasing
> Zilog (and a number of other unrelated businesses). My favorite was
> Ex-cell-o, starting business as a machine tool maker, making waxed-paper
> milk cartons and purchasing disk maker Bryant.
> 
> But then we also have Ball Brothers, they of the canning (Mason) jars,
> going into aerospace and making OEM "kit" monitors...
> 
> --Chuck


My favorite is Votrax (speech synthesizers) being a division of Federal Screw 
Works.

Will


If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't 
assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless 
immensity of the sea.

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