Curious. Same goes for people who aren't in a
large company and
invent various other things. How did he 'invent' a gun without
owning the necessary tools (at least I doubt a magazine writer would
own this stuff) to process metal? Also, how did Woz make a case for
Why not? It can certainly be bought, both new and at auctions.
I knew a gunsmith who had a mill and a lathe, and that's the main
two pieces of heavy machinery you need to make pretty much anything.
(Besides the little stuff like welding equipment, saws, etc.)
the Apple ][, etc? Are there companies that take
single orders
like this?
Yeah but it tends to be expensive because you have to make molds for the
plastic. So you can spend tens of thousands to get the first prototype
made but it gets really cheap to do production quantities once you have
done that.
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