[time-nuts] HP 5071A Electron Multiplier of Cesium Beam Tube

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Sep 7 21:43:53 UTC 2009


In message <4AA5766C.5090607 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>Oh, I find the poem a nice tongue-in-cheek from its designer. We have 
>always wanted refined high precission physical science to be dwelled 
>into chants and poems of its master magicians. :)

Those of you with a HP3458A can try to give it the command "XYZZY"
via GPIB :-)

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