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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by Animats on Monday July 06, 2020 @03:13PM (#23751597)
Exactly. Things built for vertical assembly, like the Sony Walkman and the Apple Macintosh IIci, are easy to assemble automatically. All the assembly moves are straight down. This has those annoying cable connectors that have to be slid in edgewise. Yet they got that to work.

I'm amazed that Sony let out detailed pictures of the cable connecting operation. Looks like they use both a camera and a force feedback wrist.

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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by Smoosh on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:16PM (#23754974)
> Apple Macintosh IIci

Insert meme "Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time"

But I still have one somewhere in a cupboard.

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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by Animats on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:15PM (#23766026)
That was the end of Made in America for Apple. They moved production to low-wage plants and quit designing for automated assembly.
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