Microprocessors: Design case history: Singer's electronic sewing machine: Putting a microprocessor in a sewing machine surprised the skeptics and put its developers for ahead of the competition

Pressed by a competitor who was selling Japanese manufactured sewing machines for the home at lower cost: the, Singer Sewing Products Group counterattacked. Fer four years, designers and development engineers worked in secret at the Singer headquarters in Elizabeth, N.J., putting together a sewing machine that would, in one stroke, make existing machines on the market obsolete. What they were aiming for was the world's first electronic sewing machine.