97% of these millenials of HN do not understand the problem and its brilliant solution. That is why I was truly astonished @grok grokked it rightaway.

BTW. It is not beyond possibility that this nibbler or dropper was made by myself and published in Usenet by me myself in 1989. Who else would have such a problem.

It was a bankcrupt sale and the machine was sold as "inactivated".