It had taken way too much time to get even the recognition
ping off the darned receiver. Josh simply didn't have time to spare so he
cancelled the stand by. "The heck with it", he thought, "we'll
come back later". "Just think about it. Four hundred dollars for a
one inch pin - a stinking little pin", he said out loud so Janet would
hear. "It's not the pin. It's the distance of the transport. At least the
pin will be right, otherwise the whole thing might not even work", she
answered. Josh had been trying to repair a "workstyle printer copier"
he'd installed on his automatic reply line - a setup that allowed customers to
pull up his company's electronic messaging sign and order and receive working
units according to easy choice options - and pay and receive the units within
virtually seconds. It was hard and costly to set up, but it brought in
thousands of dollars a day on average - when it was up and running. His problem
at the moment was a little pin that aligned an optional design picture to a
cutter that actually manufactured a part - well - a facsimile of a part that
was transported electronically to another receiver that a customer, presumably,
used.
Customers, by the way, that might be located light years -
actually light years - away from his business location!
