JimS,
Your quote caught my attention: "The dog at my Gerber files".
I saw a machine once at my friend's house that was about 2 feet wide and stood something like 5 to six feet tall. It had "Gerber" as a label and I always wondered if it was a computer. My friend told me it was a Gerber computer, but that's as far as it went. He had it in his basement and it didn't work. It was just a dusty old hunk of metal. Was there ever a Gerber computer?
Couldn't find that machine pictured anywhere...
Fester