10 August 2004 at 00.37.19 ZuluTime
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Posted by Nicole Fawcett [207.68.98.5 - SHWAN-PROXY] on 10 August 2004 at 00.37.19 ZuluTime:
In Reply to: Supplemental What's New posted by Gremlin on 11 January 2003 at 14.16.03 ZuluTime:
tramadol I asked the engineer who designed the communication terminal's keyboards
why these were not manufactured in a central facility, in view of the
small number needed [1 per month] in his factory. He explained that this
would be contrary to the political concept of local self-sufficiency.
Therefore, each factory needing keyboards, no matter how few, manufactures
them completely, even molding the keypads.
-- Isaac Auerbach, IEEE "Computer", Nov. 1979