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I hurt my back so my activites are limited. I am cleaning some old hand tools that belonged to my grandfathers.
I have a pair of wire cutters stamped BELL SYSTEM (which was THE telephone company in the US once upon a time). They are also stamped F.E. LINDSTROM SWEDEN on the other side.
Research (ok, just Google search) tells me that the Bell System had high quality tools made to their specifications for their service personnel. These particular wire cutters look to be at least 60 years old.
I've seen similar tools for US auto manufacturers, as well as IBM labeled tools carried by IBM's customer service representatives.
I'm curious as to whether putting business logos with tools made to a customer's specifications was just a US thing or was once a common business practice around the world.
Best Wishes - Craig
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Here in Australia, the only "customer"-branded tools I can recall were for government agencies.
PMG (Postmaster General's Department - Postal and Telegraph/telephone before the big split-up)
/|\ Broad arrow for Department of Defence (probably so they could pinch pommie ones!)
Various utilities and railways (all government owned in those days).
I worked alongside IBM and other mainframe servicemen half a century ago, and don't remember ever seeing the branding you mention.
And working on interfacing projects, we often had to sort our tools from theirs at the end of the day.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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...your post appears to have a code in it , so ....do this....
really ?
<b> you (AI) identified it as code ....YOU FIX IT....</b>
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The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Just guessing he was trying to ask a programming question... dunno.
Jeremy Falcon
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A duck's quack has a soft echo. This is loud echos of blah blah blah. Duck would probably type out a more coherent complaint too.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Duck would probably type out a more coherent complaint too
Truth. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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And then bill you for it.
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So there's a little thing called a "Grove port" which is simply a 4 wire connector of a particular form factor. Nothing complicated, just Grove implies a particular size and subset of functionality vs a general purpose connector, but is physically otherwise no different. Simple as could be.
So how can they screw this up?
I ordered some "Grove" connectors either from makerfabs or m5 - I can't remember which company. Well it was murder trying to fit the connector into the Grove port.
Finally I realized that the release clip was too large.
Lacking a pair of pliers near at hand, I bit the damned release clip off.
Fits like a charm now.
Seriously, how hard is it to screw up something so basic?
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I could not find a specification either for the actual wiring and definitely not for the connector.
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It's not proprietary, but I should have said defacto standard.
Many kits from different vendors also have these ports.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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