Quote Originally Posted by stewi View Post
...The name "chip shooter" is likely reserved by turret head placement machines, which have a stationary rotary head and moving X and Y PCB to be populated....
That's what I thought as well, but also heard many times a machine being called a chip shooter to designate a particular machine in an assembly line where there is also another machine(s) that is dedicated to place odd shape and high pitch components. In those cases the "chip shooter" was either an eight-head or a rotary head used to quickly place small passives.