The lady who ran the key punch machine was a highly qualified technician.

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Chinese washing machine manufacturer Heier sent a technician to a remote agricultural region in China where they had been receiving numerous breakdowns.

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Next a technician loads the pills onto the tray of a Pentapack machine, which packages each one into a blister and stacks them within long, rectangular tubes.

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To keep an old-style machine running for 24 hours required three shifts and eight hours of a technician's time.

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Sometimes a good technician can retrieve data from a hard drive by physically taking it apart and loading it into another machine.

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