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Originally Posted by jstout66
Oh.. and lets not forget anything Japanese. I can still hear his shrill "What in THE hell!" when he'd work on anything he didn't like.....
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About 25 years ago a guy in our small company's service and manufacturing dept was working on one of our products that had in it a Japanese B&W monitor. He was cussing something like "First they gave us Pearl Harbor, now this!" as he was struggling with some defect in the monitor.
This company, Matrix Instruments, which no longer exists, made a strange product. Namely a box that would accept a video feed from a hospital CAT scanner and create photographic hard copy. A video monitor inside the box with the CAT scanner image was focused via a camera lens onto a piece of Xray film. Lens had a shutter like a real film camera. Then you'd develop the film. Then the doctor had hard copy like that from actual Xray machines. This was back in 1979. Before computers were popular.
As a friend who worked with me there once said, it was: "A standard issue job at a typical company that made a boring product".
