Yes remember back then there was Ready Kilowatt (Detroit Edison) power was cheap cheap cheap and 600 tubes made lots of sense for winter heating. Those were the days of all electric house heat. Instant on. Alas this conversation is wayyy of of time-nuts. Back to time-nuts. All of the past is why its so impressive that in 10 watts you can get a heck of a time reference these days. See a save for the time-nuts thread. Regards Paul WB8TSL.
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Gerald Chafee <[email protected]> wrote: > Is that heat due to all the tubes? ;) > > Jerry > > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:16 PM, paul swed <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
