I imagine that Mr Hewlett and Mr Packard have been spinning in their graves for years, seeing what has become of their company. Why anyone thought it was a good idea to sell off the divisions that made "real" products and become a PC company is beyond my understanding.
Years ago, I thought HP printers were top rate. I'm not even sure that is true any more. Joe Gray W5JG On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Volker Esper <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Joe. Though I don't have such time equipment, the pictures are > fascinating me and make me recall the days when the name "HP" stood for High > Precision (or High Price) rather than for cheap printers. > Those days are gone... > > Volker > > > Am 13.01.2013 12:27, schrieb Dave Brown: > >> Thanks for these, Joe. >> The photo with the sign 'set your watch' is especially interesting for >> me as it shows a pair of old clock displays the same as one I have here. >> These are the two digital displays that are showing the same digits. >> There's part of a third one the same on the extreme left but the display >> on that one is not visible in the photo. My clock has a different >> mechanical dial on the ten turn pot at the extreme right of the front >> panel- otherwise the unit I have here looks identical to those in the >> photograph. >> I have never been able to track down any info on this unit. Mine came >> from a US military installation here in NZ (Black Birch) that has long >> since been shut down. It's certainly old technology- RCA 'numitron' >> displays and mostly TTL circuitry. I've had it running here continuously >> now for about six years driven from an HP 5245M timebase - the clock has >> never missed a beat. (recent quakes excepted ) Also. one of the >> newspaper cuttings in that collection you posted mentions the flying >> clock being down here in NZ to visit Mount John, a magnificent >> observatory site in South Canterbury. These days it's a well known >> astronomical observatory run as part of Canterbury University Physics >> Department. >> Dave Brown >> Christchurch, NZ >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Gray" <[email protected]> >> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 10:10 PM >> Subject: [time-nuts] 1970's flashback >> >> >>> Some time ago, a local Amateur gave me a CD with some radio related >>> information. Also on the CD was some information from when he was in >>> the Air Force. As it is Time Nuts related, some of you might find this >>> of interest. I have posted the images in my Dropbox and will leave >>> them there for a few days before removing them. Several images are >>> large. >>> >>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ri8md891qne99vn/fuSDWspqWD >>> >>> Joe Gray >>> W5JG >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, go to >>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
