[time-nuts] Help with HP 8640B generator

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

In a message dated 05/09/2008 23:23:37 GMT Daylight Time,  
james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov writes:

Trivia:  The engineer who designed that chip for HP 35 years   ago has the 
cubicle next to me at Agilent Labs!  It was  considered  very advanced at the 
time.



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The  cubicle?


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Think of it as many nested boxes, within the  building there is a room, 
within the room there is a cubicle, within the  cubicle there is a piece of test 
equipment, within the test equipment there is  a oven enclosure, within the oven 
enclosure there is a box, within the box  there is an oscillator, within the 
oscillator there is a crystal housing,  within the crystal housing there is a 
chunk o' rock, upon which everything  rests...



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OK
 
I get it....
 
The cubicle was advanced for it's time because it was sitting on a chunk of  
rock.
 
I like that, it's really good....
 
especially when one considers how the Dilbert principle  has demonstrated the 
very great difficulty involved in finding a  stable cubicle.