[time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 79, Issue 69

[EB4APL]

This is the same reason why analog meters were preferred for some 
activities: peaking for a maximum or a minimum, S and Vu meters, etc.  
Even today some digital equipment have analog scale emulators like 
bargraphs and so.
It looks like the brain processes faster those indications when you need 
just approximate values or trends.

Ignacio, EB4APL


El 16/02/2011 5:01, Burt I. Weiner wrote:
> I wear a wrist watch with an hour hand, a minute hand, and a seconds 
> hand.  When i wore a digital watch it seldom registered with me as to 
> what time it really was.  Oh yes, I knew that it was, say, 3:15 PM, 
> but it didn't mean the same as looking at my old fashioned watch and 
> seeing the little hand a little below the three and the big hand on 
> the three and the second hand somewhere else.  I would also say to my 
> self, I've got this much of a turn (of the big hand) to get 
> somewhere.  I didn't have to do the math.  Life was simpler.
>
> Burt, K6OQK
>
> At 06:00 PM 2/15/2011, time-nuts-request at febo.com wrote
>> After I wrote "just take it to any quality watch retailer" I got to
>> thinking,....  Wow someone actually still uses a wrist watch?   If you
>> look around almost no one does because all of our electronic gadgets,
>> cell phones and the like all have LCD screens that display the time.
>> A watch is redundant except as a kind of reto-fashion statement.
>>
>> -- 
>> =====
>> Chris Albertson
>> Redondo Beach, California
>>
>>
>
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>
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