[time-nuts] Help with HP 8640B generator
Thomas A. Frank
ka2cdk at cox.net
Sat Sep 6 03:38:38 UTC 2008
> 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?
> -----
> 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...
Collapsing down toward infinity. Fractal engineering at its finest.
Perhaps my experience in engineering for the gov't differs a bit from
that found at such a high end company, but I would have expected that
at that level of seniority, those folks usually rate an office with a
door...or is that sort of thing reserved solely for management?
Tom Frank, KA2CDK
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