Out of the diamond planet, a research group emerges

@Gene Cash

Neither. It was a beer-driven whim. A hack, if you will. If management had ever found out about it, the perps would have undoubtedly been fired for "unauthorized use of corporate resources".

I was a contractor, working for a company that was experimenting with diamond vapor deposition. They had a mixed bag[1] of networking technology, I was upgrading it to 100Meg Ethernet. Various Vapor Deposition techs were assigned to me to pull wire, and other "dumb, heavy work". When the job was over, they took me out for a beer (or several). Bunch of techs, pizza & beer, and ... well, you get the picture.

We each chipped in $20 for the blades. At the time, I figured the money was actually my share of the pizza & beer. Somehow, they managed to figure out DVD time, at the exhaust end of the chamber (so as to not contaminate the actual test-run). Once they figured out which process worked best, they ran a full run of nothing but blades (late night). They divvied up the result, each of us getting a dozen blades, with the lead tech getting 15. I had no idea that they were actually proceeding with the crazy idea until they delivered my dozen to my office :-)

I was just wondering if anyone knew of anyone working on this obviously solvable problem ... or have the razor manufacturing industry threatened mayhem in the courts for anyone putting a "lifetime razor blade" for sale to the general public.

[1] StarLAN (some manufacturing stuff), Novell 2.x (TheBigBoss and his secretary) and 3.x (secretarial pool), thicknet (various), ArcNET (the CAD department) and thinnet (everywhere else; MILES of the stuff ...). Needless to say, their network wasn't designed, it evolved ... Yes, this was really in the late '90s. It was fun to fix :-)