Giants in those days, Ed!

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Edward Finnell <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Back in late 60's were were goofing around with  some dimensional
> something that wouldn't converge and the phone rings. Long story short
> local foundry had run payroll three times and different answers every time.
> Could we please borrow some storage oscilloscopes? One guy had key to
> physics lab and I had one to EE lab so we converged at the mill with angry
> union workers about to picket. Fired up payroll again and CE says 'it
> changed' meaning CPU bus. Sure enough one of the scopes had a big off the
> screen blip. So what's changed? Well we did add this new wing of Bessemer
> converters(50 hp electric motors). So the big guy muttered something about
> parenting and lineage. You need isolation transformers-lets go.
>
>
> In a message dated 1/8/2018 9:52:23 AM Central Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
>
> Regular hammers have their utility.
>
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