OT RE: BLAM, BLAM, BLAM! ;]

From: Shawn Rutledge <ecloud_at_goodnet.com>
Date: Wed Aug 26 16:46:07 1998

> Curious. Same goes for people who aren't in a large company and
> invent various other things. How did he 'invent' a gun without
> owning the necessary tools (at least I doubt a magazine writer would
> own this stuff) to process metal? Also, how did Woz make a case for

Why not? It can certainly be bought, both new and at auctions.
I knew a gunsmith who had a mill and a lathe, and that's the main
two pieces of heavy machinery you need to make pretty much anything.
(Besides the little stuff like welding equipment, saws, etc.)

> the Apple ][, etc? Are there companies that take single orders
> like this?

Yeah but it tends to be expensive because you have to make molds for the
plastic. So you can spend tens of thousands to get the first prototype
made but it gets really cheap to do production quantities once you have
done that.

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