Field Notes: The early digital shop (2000–2004)
A web reading list covering 2000–2004: 6 articles from this publication.
A web reading list covering 2000–2004: 6 articles from this publication.
This web edition collects our retrospective reading about 2000–2004. The years describe the subject matter; this issue was assembled and published now. It has not been sent as an email newsletter.
In this issue
Cambria in 2000: the starting point for a quartz brand archive
Cambria identifies 2000 as its founding year in its corporate press information. That establishes a starting point for the company's history, not a release date for every design sold under the name today.
Laminam's 2001 beginnings and the difference between a company and a product generation
Laminam's twentieth-anniversary account places its founding in 2001. It describes a progression from architectural surfaces toward additional interior and furnishing applications.
Park's 2002 bridge-saw milestone: YUKON II and SIERRA
Park's corporate timeline dates YUKON II and SIERRA launches to 2002, describing them as semi-automatic and manual bridge saws respectively.
The FR-16 in 2003: distinguishing layout tools from digital templating systems
Laser Products Industries lists the FR-16 framing square in its 2003 company timeline. The entry predates its LT-55 templating milestone.
LT-55 in 2004: the original generation needs its own record
LPI dates the original LT-55 Laser Templator to 2004 and records its discontinuation in 2008.
Laminam's 2004 thin-slab format: an architectural milestone
Laminam's anniversary history dates its 1000 × 3000 mm, 3 mm format to 2004. The account discusses that development in the context of architectural cladding.
Keep the dates separate
For each article, check the historical period and the actual publication date. The supporting source may itself be a later company history. Product generations, current availability, and the specification of an individual machine or material order remain separate questions.
A newly published web collection of our articles. This is not an archived email campaign or a claim of publication during the historical period.
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