I was one of the Industrial Engineers responsible for the production of
core planes at the IBM Poughkeepsie plant.
The cores were put into a machine that shook them down into a panel that
lined them up for the row and column to be inserted by machine. The sense
wires were however inserted manually. It was an almost impossible job if
you looked at what had to be done but some people (almost all women) had an
uncanny knack of doing the job in what seemed to be impossible times and
accuracy. Using MTM (methods time measurement) it should have taken them
much longer than it actually did. They just had special skills.
Gene
At 11:46 AM 11/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>>made by hand - there wasn't a machine that could thread the
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