Re: Amiga, Mac, Atari

["richard cortese" <ricortes@earthlink.net>]

"Wildstar" <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "richard cortese" <ricortes@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:qu3k9.796
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> Don't you think they use Lasers to cut the holes. No longer longer a need
> for drills.

Actually I worked with Coherent Radiation CO2 lasers as it related to
drilling holes in polymeric substrates I will uncatogorically say it was not
ready in the 70s.

Ironically the problems I saw, the puff of colloidal particles causing
dispersion of the beam and inaccuracies in the hole were duplicated in the
"Star Wars" defense programs. It was one of the things I am sure the
Russians figured out as a cheap defense for directed energy weapons. Just
coat nuclear warheads with any crap and the puff of smoke prevents further
damage.

The only way around this is multiple pulses which end cost time and money. I
wish I could remember some of the numbers as I actually knew them many years
ago. The bottom line was for all but the highest quanties of production you
are better off buying a cheap drill and a minimum wage assembler. The Atari
VCS probably would have qualified but I am sure low production items like
850 interfaces would never have covered the cost of set up and capitol
equipment costs.