P3D VM personal machines

[Rod Sage <rsage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Sorry this will be short as I am too busy these days, but the VM people

>addressed this question in our meeting in Green Bay. It seems there
>isn't ONE machine that makes personal reels, but rather a large set of
>them. A portion of the process of creating them uses other machines
that
>ARE used in current reel production, so even if they DID give away the
>one machine that keeps failing, they could not give away the other
>machines that they currently use for regular reel production, so no one

>would be able to continue procesing reels since they would not have
>everything necessary to do that. I sure hope that makes sense...

>Dan Shelley
>dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan

I was wondering about that too. It would be nice if the equipment could
stay on-sight and if a retired VM empoyee would be willing to go tinker
on the machines. Too bad I'm not Bill Gates. I would donate a little
pocket change to have the machines fixed. How can we get him interresed
in 3d? And I not talking about flat images with shadows.
RDS




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