You can buy one here https://www.tindie.com/products/nsayer/gps-talking-clock/ Best Wishes, Craig
On Sep 30, 2019, at 3:00 PM, Neville Michie <[email protected]> wrote: Here in Australia we are suffering the loss of one of the significant developments in accurate time keeping and dissemination. The talking clock, built in England, with sound tracks on rotating glass disks, has been on the Australian telephone system for more than half a century. The system was timed by quartz oscillators, synchronised to the local observatory time. Now in spite of the trivial cost of maintaining the system it has been removed by the money-hungry telco which took over the government run telephone system. Now it occurs to me that the sound tracks occupy a very small digital space, and with modern flash drives and a little logic the talking clock could be driven by any time nut's disciplined time source. So is there a time nut who could design a voice output that we could all use? “At the third stroke the time will be…” cheers, Neville Michie _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
