Also Pete Hand from LV designed a better FLW clock. I have his original I
bought from his family/friends after he passed on... RIP brother nixie neon
lover! You can see Michael's much "enhanced" version on
badnixie: http://www.badnixie.com/Acrylic_Nixie.html
I love this clock and it still
Ray Weisling went to extraordinary lengths to fit his code and all the
words into very limited memory. Today, because memory is plentiful and
cheap, one would simply create a large table of all FLW, each word using
4 bytes. It would be so simple.
But instead he resorted to bit tricks. For
That's an interesting site that I hadn't seen before. I never suspected the
algorithm that RW used in the original FLW clock was so circuitous but
taking the technology of the time into account it's not really surprising.
I have made several FLW clocks over the years both with B7971 tubes and
The first link I see when Googling "four letter word clock" is this one:
https://pbxbook.com/clocks/B7971_flw.html
[image: FLW.jpg]
Is the original firmware available for download from somwehere or does
anyone have any of the microprocessors for sale?
/Martin
On Friday, 28 May 2021 at
Ho Ho I don't often search for "playboy":)
On Fri, 28 May 2021, 10:37 p.m. J Forbes, wrote:
> You're welcome. It took me well under a minute to find that site...but I
> did know to use the magic word "playboy" in my google search, since I was
> around this group 20 years ago when Ray was still
You're welcome. It took me well under a minute to find that site...but I
did know to use the magic word "playboy" in my google search, since I was
around this group 20 years ago when Ray was still active.
On Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 8:53:31 PM UTC-7 celephicus wrote:
> Fascinating... Thank
Fascinating... Thank you, I've never seen that before. Into the
rabbit hole
On Fri, 28 May 2021, 1:17 p.m. J Forbes, wrote:
> A start here...but there is lots more if you delve deep into the old posts
> on this group.
>
> https://www.oocities.org/tokyo/8908/fourletterword/index.html
>
> On
A start here...but there is lots more if you delve deep into the old posts
on this group.
https://www.oocities.org/tokyo/8908/fourletterword/index.html
On Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 7:54:48 PM UTC-7 celephicus wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am doing a Hackaday project on my enormous FLW build, and I
