Comments on: Shelves That “Come to You” (Jul, 1961) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/10/shelves-that-come-to-you/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Kent http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/10/shelves-that-come-to-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1046496 Kent Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:07:15 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/10/shelves-that-come-to-you/#comment-1046496 The vertical carousel is still a popular storage device. http://www.diamondphoenix.com/page.php?page=vertical-carousel The vertical carousel is still a popular storage device.

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]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/10/shelves-that-come-to-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1046471 jayessell Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:56:46 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/10/shelves-that-come-to-you/#comment-1046471 When you got a new one, would you need ballast on the unused trays until you filled it up? I'd like one for my Comix, VHS tapes, LPs, CDs and DVDs and action figures. A small one was in my local drug store 40 years ago to display watches. When you got a new one, would you need ballast on the unused trays until you filled it up?
I’d like one for my Comix, VHS tapes, LPs, CDs and DVDs and action figures.
A small one was in my local drug store 40 years ago to display watches.

]]> By: compwalla http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/10/shelves-that-come-to-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1046465 compwalla Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:22:50 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/10/shelves-that-come-to-you/#comment-1046465 Our office used many of these in the early 90s to store accounting and contract files in the offices of 5th Corps Finance & Accounting. Government insistence on hard-copy signed paper contracts made the mass of files necessary. These filing cabinets made the most of limited space. Our office used many of these in the early 90s to store accounting and contract files in the offices of 5th Corps Finance & Accounting. Government insistence on hard-copy signed paper contracts made the mass of files necessary. These filing cabinets made the most of limited space.

]]> By: Max http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/10/shelves-that-come-to-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1046458 Max Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:30:34 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/10/shelves-that-come-to-you/#comment-1046458 Back in the early 1980s I worked with machines something like this, though not as tall as this one. They held hundreds of trays of IBM punch cards that were each embedded with a frame of microfilm, from which poster-sized prints could be made on demand. All that technology became obsolete rather quickly! Back in the early 1980s I worked with machines something like this, though not as tall as this one. They held hundreds of trays of IBM punch cards that were each embedded with a frame of microfilm, from which poster-sized prints could be made on demand. All that technology became obsolete rather quickly!

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