[time-nuts] HP Stories: Battery Chargers, and a fading idolization of HP

[Andy Backus]

Brings to mind two interesting numbers:
I figured out when I was ten that it takes about 2 weeks to count to a million at one number/sec.
Much later in graduate school I learned from an astronomer that a year has pi x 10^7 seconds.
Andy Backus

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Subject: [time-nuts] HP Stories: Battery Chargers, and a fading idolization of HP

Back in the late 70's I  worked for a mini-computer company.   They were a horrendous paper-work factory... spec after needless/useless/virtually identical documentation requirements.   I wrote one document where I put all the timings in units of "ffn"...  femto-fortnights.   It was over three years later that somebody asked me what a "ffn" is.  After 5 years, he and I were the only people to ever request a copy of that document.

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>“Hey, no one will notice that the stamping on the transistor doesn’t match the parts list.   I’ll bet no one will look at this schematic carefully anyway.
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