[time-nuts] Help with HP 8640B generator

[Lux, James P]

In a message dated 05/09/2008 05:23:56 GMT Daylight Time, richard at karlquist.com writes:

Trivia:  The engineer who designed that chip for HP 35 years  ago has the cubicle next to me at Agilent Labs!  It was  considered very advanced at the time.



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The cubicle?


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Think of it as many nested boxes, within the building there is a room, within the room there is a cubicle, within the cubicle there is a piece of test equipment, within the test equipment there is a oven enclosure, within the oven enclosure there is a box, within the box there is an oscillator, within the oscillator there is a crystal housing, within the crystal housing there is a chunk o' rock, upon which everything rests...