Posted by Bob3 on November 01, 2003 at 17:21:59:
In Reply to: To the contrary, Elaine. posted by DougD on October 28, 2003 at 18:56:22:
Don't drag Fred into this, all he wanted was a better & cheaper plate for himself, and that meant turning out a dozen instead of just one. Things just snowballed from there.
Backplates have been around since the '60s, when a lot of the other people mentioned were still peeing in their diapers.