Xerographic from Greek "dry writing" differs in that you use a fine powder (toner) that can be electrostatically charged and then drawn to paper using a light-sensitive drum.

The genius of the AM machine is that it could be used to print on practically any medium including metal, dogtags were printed in this way. Also, data could be saved in either punchcard format or later electronically. The last big use was for imprinting credit cards.

I can still see in my head how to compose a line in the CompEdit, perhaps it was like a pseudo comp language in that you could specify line length, drop-cap, leading, tracking, kerning, etc all via commands. I guess the equivalent of WordPerfect's codes but with maximum strength.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_Jacquard_Systems https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10273361... https://www.facebook.com/Varityper/ http://pdf.textfiles.com/jscott/1980-varityper-brochure.pdf

Techmoan has been shown that nearly every "new" tape-playing device these days all contain the same lousy mech, some not even capable of stereo playback!

VWestlife covered the "world's first Bluetooth capable portable cassette player" which is a few years old now but also uses a lousy mech (mono!).

Cassette audio today seems to be more about the experience and social aspects of making, trading, and playing tapes ( Ala Guardians of the Galaxy style )rather than getting the best quality audio.

https://youtu.be/nezGOVOpHtc

https://youtu.be/WVylfRhIA7o

It's incumbent upon all users or members of the team to use the common tool along with agreed upon standards. Otherwise even if you wrote documentation in your own hemoglobin, no one would touch it either.

Some manager prob chose _________ as the tool for ticketing, documentation, etc not because it was good at ______, or _______ but because it fulfilled their action plan to have something, anything in place so that if the universe goes supernova, well some stuff was written down.

In my journey it seems that nobody is willing to criticize Edward Teach for the lousy treasure map he left, but rather we make fun of those who're still looking for his stuff.

The Concord showed this by shouldering the burden of research, development, prototyping, and then production. Turns out SS's don't have the load factor & associated economics to make it a viable mode. That revelation was before environmental and political challenges made those economics worse.

Unless unobtanium can me mined, tooled, and manufactured cheaply into airframe parts and power such as scram-jet or super cruising turbofans can push a plane at Mach 2 with 200+ seats behind the pilot, methinks its just a pretty artist's conception on a Pop Mechanics or Science magazine cover.

Was it Balmer that hired Elop?