My guess is that there is a bit of telephone and/or exaggeration involved, and the kernel of truth if thare a small number of extremely old machines in operatio

My guess is that there is a bit of telephone and/or exaggeration involved, and the kernel of truth if thare a small number of extremely old machines in operation. (But they do not handle the bulk of the production.) If you were able to check and report back, I would be very interested!