On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Ray Henry wrote:
>Hi Kirk
>
>I snipped your post and mixed in a couple of comments.
>
>On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 14:24 -0600, d06 wrote:
><s>
>
>> My router/mill would not be able to do much as far as commercial quality
>> production: http://www.marion.us/dave/emcmill/index.html
>> This is just a hobby for me right now,
>
>Nice job. I love it when a plan comes together.
>
><s>
>
>> I'm curious, do we have a way to know how many people are using EMC and
>> for what purpose?
>
>Nope. Not that I know of. I've been around since the early days when I
>thought we could count the machines on two hands. Had to be two because
>Dan was running five machines at the same time. Permit me three brief
>stories. I had planned a trip to Europe so asked on the list hosted by
>NIST if I could visit a few "users." I got offers from England to
>Russia and from Finland to Italy. We visited three and were impressed
>with the creativity. There may still be a copy of the email report
>around the archives someplace.
>
>On another post I was attempting to expound on the subject of EMC use
>and used the Czech Republic at a possible place where folk might be
>using it. My problem was that I misspelled the name. A fellow from
>there posted correcting my spelling and said he was using EMC on several
>old broken down Soviet mills.
>
>A third story arrived in an email years ago from a fellow in Italy who
>wrote no English and knew nobody to help him. There was only one
>sentence roughly "scusilo che non parlo inglese." He sent a bunch of
>pictures of his router making wild looking rock guitars. He was doing
>all the work with EMC and showed several pictures of tkemc and the
>backplotter along with the parts.
>
>So the easy answer is we could work up some sort of survey but most of
>our users, once they get the kinks/configurations worked out for their
>machines are never heard from again.
>
>Rayh
>
And that's a bit sad, Ray. I wonder, says he out loud to nobody in
particular, how many users are subbed to this list. And are there emc
mailing lists in other languages?
--
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