Hypatia's Protege
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Hey! -- I have some vintage test equipment (a DMM and a frequency counter) that use NIXIE display tubes --- Free to take at a swapfest - and they work!
Hey! -- I have some vintage test equipment (a DMM and a frequency counter) that use NIXIE display tubes --- Free to take at a swapfest - and they work!
It would be cool to get your favorite microcontroller, the fashionable Arduino, and use it to generate signal frequencies that cause the Nixie frequency counter to display the correct time.Hey! -- I have some vintage test equipment (a DMM and a frequency counter) that use NIXIE display tubes --- Free to take at a swapfest - and they work!
I'll bet I could do it with a 16F84It would be cool to get your favorite microcontroller, the fashionable Arduino, and use it to generate signal frequencies that cause the Nixie frequency counter to display the correct time.
1) People associated real wood with quality. Some of the real wood cabinet TVs I worked on were a two man job to move. The TV was still broken, but it was in a classy cabinet! The wood grain on plastic was a placebo.why is so much of what remains from the 1970's adorned with wood grain???
In the late 60 and into the 70's Many purchased a unit called a three way consisting of TV, Radio and Record player.that and wood-grain! -- why is so much of what remains from the 1970's adorned with wood grain???
Ha ha! It wasen't a secret HP and I are family so cat already running free like Elsa the lion in old movieCats out of the bag now HP
and yes this post makes me feel old too..
It was all out in open in tacky plastic sort of faux Art Deco thing I say it was GROSS in a lava lamp kind of wayInasmuch as you described the motor and the arrangement of the 'cards', I take it that the device you inspected was disassembled?
Now, now! Nobody likes a poor looser, HP!You? Stoned!? -- How could I have suspected that?!
Not really! It's just that they're routing my VPN connections through Europe until north American server back up to speed, I'm afraid it's not helping much!@Aleph(0)
Clock looked like cheap piece of dreck would be at home in frowsey trailer park.
You speak or understand German?
---Emphasis added---It was all out in open in tacky plastic sort of faux Art Deco thing I say it was GROSS in a lava lamp kind of way
It's just possible that @boatsman 's inquiry owed to your manner of 'expletive management' -- as opposed your IP...Not really! It's just that they're routing my VPN connections through Europe until north American server back up to speed, I'm afraid it's not helping much!
Not really! It's just that they're routing my VPN connections through Europe until north American server back up to speed, I'm afraid it's not helping much!
I think @boatsman was referring to the possible Germanic origin of the following word that you used in your first post...It's just possible that @boatsman 's inquiry owed to your manner of 'expletive management' -- as opposed your IP...
Oh! Puleeze! Not theI think @boatsman was referring to the possible Germanic origin of the following word that you used in your first post...
...thanks to Urban Dictionary, we now know you are more likely from Long Island than Germany...
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On the other hand 'Dreck' (politely) translated from the German = 'Soil' --- What say youThe Online Etymology Dictionary said:frowsty (adj.)
"having an unpleasant smell," 1865, of unknown origin; perhaps related to Old French frouste "ruinous, decayed," or to Old English þroh "rancid;" both of which also are of uncertain origin. Also compare frowzy.
Based on context, I'm betting on on my theory.
Based on context, I'm betting on on my theory.
I dunno -- it seems to me that a 'trailer court' is more likely to be odoriferous than 'sartorially challenged'?Clock looked like cheap piece of dreck would be at home in frowsey trailer park!
For some unknown reason, I knew the definition Aleph meant, but I still learned something new today.FWIW: I took @Aleph(0) 's use of 'frowsey' to be a variant (or abject misspelling) of 'frowzy/frowsty'???
I disagree. There are plenty of trailer-court denizens with good hygiene. Just not many who are at the apex of fashion....than 'sartorially challenged'?
by Aaron Carman
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