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Amazing Machines!

HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
edited 2010-11-04 17:08 in General Discussion
http://www.parallax.com/MadeintheUSA/ProductionEquipment/tabid/885/Default.aspx

Take a look at all these impressive and amazing machines. Some of these machines sound like something from a new Tom Swift book.

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  • KaosKiddKaosKidd Posts: 296
    edited 2010-11-03 08:03
    Humanoido wrote: »
    http://www.parallax.com/MadeintheUSA/ProductionEquipment/tabid/885/Default.aspx

    Take a look at all these impressive and amazing machines. Some of these machines sound like something from a new Tom Swift book.

    Now there's a series of books I loved! I read ALL of them during the course of one summer and the first part of the school year. When I say all, I mean all 33 of the Jr books and all 40 of the Sr books. I was reading a book a day; I know there were more. Lots more, but for some reason I can only verify the 73 books above.

    <Sigh> This was back in... 1979 ... It was the summer I discovered that reading kept me out of trouble and off of my fathers "radar".. :)

    The good old times when Life was indeed simple!
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-11-03 10:19
    KaosKidd wrote: »
    Now there's a series of books I loved! I read ALL of them during the course of one summer and the first part of the school year. When I say all, I mean all 33 of the Jr books and all 40 of the Sr books. I was reading a book a day; I know there were more. Lots more, but for some reason I can only verify the 73 books above. <Sigh> This was back in... 1979 ... It was the summer I discovered that reading kept me out of trouble and off of my fathers "radar".. :) The good old times when Life was indeed simple!
    KaosKidd, that's fantastic! TS is my all-time favorite. In those good years I almost lived in the back of the toy store where they had all the Tom Swift books. Over time, I bought and read every one. I liked writing book reports about each one in school until my teacher apparently became tired of the subject. LOL.. Some of my favorites include "Outpost in Space," "Megascopic Space Prober," and "Giant Robot!" I always tried to duplicate the things that Tom built. Only now I am beginning to approach the scale of some of his projects (in my mind). :lol:
  • KaosKiddKaosKidd Posts: 296
    edited 2010-11-04 10:24
    Humanoido wrote: »
    KaosKidd, that's fantastic! TS is my all-time favorite. In those good years I almost lived in the back of the toy store where they had all the Tom Swift books. Over time, I bought and read every one. I liked writing book reports about each one in school until my teacher apparently became tired of the subject. LOL.. Some of my favorites include "Outpost in Space," "Megascopic Space Prober," and "Giant Robot!" I always tried to duplicate the things that Tom built. Only now I am beginning to approach the scale of some of his projects (in my mind). :lol:

    I loved them all. I remember my Mom and I talking about them back then. I would try to make some of the things as well. That's the year I got my presidential readers club patch. :)
  • SeariderSearider Posts: 290
    edited 2010-11-04 14:40
    I also was a huge Tom Swift fan. However, I liked Rick Brant more. More science, less fiction.
  • Nick MuellerNick Mueller Posts: 815
    edited 2010-11-04 15:31
    Take a look at all these impressive and amazing machines.

    Baaaah! The Haas mill has an old software version, they need an update. :lol:
    My Haas lathe has a newer version running. :yeah:
    And they don't have a lathe at all.


    Nick
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,407
    edited 2010-11-04 17:08
    Nick Mueller wrote: »
    Baaaah! The Haas mill has an old software version, they need an update. :lol:
    My Haas lathe has a newer version running. :yeah:
    And they don't have a lathe at all.
    Nick

    Probably the case, but because you and I know that Haas is really good at taking your money we'll happily live with the "old" software that serves us perfectly well. What was the last Haas quote I reviewed? I think it was a $800 option for the USB Memory Stick for program upload. Way expensive, but mostly worth it.
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