This machine had operated for 24 hours a day, five or six days a week, since 1987.
At least that's what would have been happening if the machine had been operating.
Sun said the machine would operate at 12.5 million instructions a second, though such claims are usually open to dispute.
A clerk does not have to stand nearby while the machine is operating.
Others say the machines operate so fast that the workers can not think straight, especially toward the end of a 12-hour shift.
The three machines, together worth almost $8 million, operate faster than anything now in Russia.
The original machine is still operating today, helping with the company's daily output of 90,000 cookies.
This machine operated only until 1963, when it was shut down and later sold for scrap in early 1964.
One does not need to understand machines to operate them well.
Now the machines in the paper mill are operating at maximum.