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| | | (...) Because it's been done? (URL) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: The future is now —Greg Majewski
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| | | | Well, I've never heard of that, so it doesn't count! :-b.. (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | Re: The future is now —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | (...) That's because you're a KID. It first appeared in Popular Mechanics back in the 80's. :^D ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: The future is now —Ran Talbott
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| | | | (...) Speaking of which, I'm pretty sure I saw the first artist's conceptions (or possibly even a photo of a full-sized mock-up) of a powered exoskeleton in PM, back in the 60s. IIRC, it was called something like "the Man Amplifier", and had a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: The future is now —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | (...) I wasn't around back in the 60s, but I have read about the machine you're describing. I suppose microprocessor and strong, light materials have progressed to the point where they would like to try it again. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: The future is now —Paul Hartzog
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| | | | Actually it was the future in the 1960s (URL) was fooling around with a concept called "Hardiman" a few decades ago. The first picture may seem familiar because that's where the idea for the forklift suit in Aliens came from. They shelved Hardiman (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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