AHMF ----from Fancyclopedia 2
Algeristic Home Made For (sum). Martin Alger of Detroit ("Photo- Fanatic
Lensman") has a fabulous number of tools and much facility with them; once he
made his own mimeograph and published on it a
one-shot instructing the fan how to make his own
mimeo for $3.75. (Of course other fans like Dale Tarr and Bill Danner had
made their own flatbed mimeos, but Alger's was the first rotary job.) The
renown of this feat spread till Martin became mythologically credited with
infinite manufacturing potential and a mania for making things himself at the
lowest possible prices, from Heironymus machines
(which see) to thermonuclear devices ("AHMF $1.35 -- not counting the
hydrogen").
[CORRECTION: Alger's wasn't the first rotary homemade mimeo; Dale Tarr
had made one, too, in the longago. There's a rumor that Boff Perry did the
same.]
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