[time-nuts] Bell Labs ad 1952

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Thu Oct 3 17:16:38 EDT 2013


Gerald it is the clock at the telco company. The folks are not checking the
time. They are getting warmed up from the heat and only appearing to be
checking the time.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Gerald Chafee <gchafee at gmail.com> wrote:

> I still have one of those 100kHz crystals in a glass tube "Octal" socket. I
> do not have the room that has 600 vacuum tubes operating and keeping the
> room within 2 degrees. That is too large to be used for my "outer over"
> where the currently shown "inner oven" is being kept to 1/100th of a
> degree.
>
> I will stick with a HP 10811 and a FE 5680A
>
> And for those people staring at the clock in the window wearing winter
> coats - get a life, it is just a clock, and not the accurate one - probably
> synced through the AC line power's 60 HZ!.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Don Oconnor <eGunk at wowway.com> wrote:
>
> > Found this time-nuts related ad from Bell Laboratories 1952. Enjoy
> >
> >
> >
> http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w541/securitydvr2010/BellLabsad1952300dpi_zpsbce7d701.jpg
> >
> > Don O'Connor
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