[time-nuts] How did they distribute time in the old days?

[Hal Murray]

bownes at gmail.com said:
> I never figured out if it was using line frequency zero crossings for
> seconds or if it was leaking as DEC fixed it not long after it was
> installed. (And it was moved to a different phase of the power system than
> the clocks...) 

I remember a story from ages ago...  A machine was keeping crappy time.  It 
was a 60 Hz box running in a 50 Hz country.  Things got a lot better after 
the frequency converter box was adjusted.

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