Gene Wolfe (the SF author) helped develop the machine to make them. > I was in the engineering development division, and asked to develop mass production equip

Gene Wolfe (the SF author) helped develop the machine to make them. > I was in the engineering development division, and asked to develop mass production equipment to make these chips. And we divided the task into the dough making/dough rolling portion, which was done by Len Hooper, and the cooking portion, which was done by me, and then the pickoff and salting portion, which was done by someone else, and then the can filling/can sealing portion which was done by a man who was almost driven insane by the program. Because he would develop a machine, and he would have it almost ready to go, and they would say "Oh, instead of 300 cans a minute, make it 500 cans a minute." And so he would have to throw out a bunch of stuff, and develop the new machine, and when he got that one about ready, they'd say "make it 700 cans a minute." And they almost put him in a mental hospital. He took his job very seriously and he just about flipped out. https://web.archive.org/web/20090916170648/http://home.roadrunner.com/~lperson1/wolfe.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090916170648/http://home.roadr...