1 Sep
2023
1 Sep
'23
7:01 p.m.
On 09/01/2023 12:42 PM CDT Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 9/1/23 10:23, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
My favorite is Votrax (speech synthesizers) being a division of Federal Screw Works.
Will
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign
them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
They made pistols:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23340620/singer-sewing-m…
I love these seeming corporate mismatches. You know, Exxon purchasing
Zilog (and a number of other unrelated businesses). My favorite was
Ex-cell-o, starting business as a machine tool maker, making waxed-paper
milk cartons and purchasing disk maker Bryant.
But then we also have Ball Brothers, they of the canning (Mason) jars,
going into aerospace and making OEM "kit" monitors...
--Chuck