[geeks] Plasic casings

Kris Kirby kris at catonic.net
Tue Jan 22 14:22:30 CST 2002


On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   They're commonly known as Santa Claus machines.  There was one at a
> surplus place that I used to go to a lot, but there were no docs
> available.  It was very tempting otherwise.

That phrase evokes from my settled memory an article by Don Lancaster, The
Hardware Hacker. His was using motors, all motors... no lasers at the
time. (Mid-80s)

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