At 09:28 AM 12/17/01 -0500, you wrote: I was an industrial engineer assigned to the Core Line in Poughkeepsie for IBM. As the cores got small and smaller the operation became harder and harder. We used a large screen like device with slots in it. The cores were dropped onto the screen which was shaken so that the cores would fall into the proper holes. Then a button was pushed and the N/S and then the E/W wires pulled through the centers of the cores. The last part of the operation was the diagonal (bias) wires which were threaded though by hand. Very few individuals were capable of this last part of the operation. Almost all of the operators were women. Men just couldn't do the fine point work. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- gene(a)ehrich.com gehrich(a)tampabay.rr.com P.O. Box 3365 Spring Hill Florida 34611-3365 http://www.voicenet.com/~generic Computer & Video Game Garage Sale I accept PayPal To subscribe to automatic updates send a blank e-mail to: online-garage-sale-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com