Weird Clocks Family Portrait
Added 2020-09-10 04:39:51 +0000 UTCAfter putting back together my Soyuz clock, I assembled my various other clocks for a family portrait:
- the large flip clock is my Solari Dator 10 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59Xs5gCX_Sch1LoIm8TcWQ2 which you often hear clunking in the background.
- two HP instruments with clocks on them: an HP 5150A data logger and an HP 59309A HP-IB Digital Clock, with minuscule, early LED displays
- a Nixie clock of my own build from a long time ago
- The Amano 6800 punch clock https://youtu.be/Dm4FtcmsJXo which is also very clunk happy.
- the 744H Soyuz Space clock, running with doubtful accuracy from its glitchy internal oscillator
Marc
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adrian stoness
2020-09-11 03:01:28 +0000 UTCGiven the "HP-IB" in there, I'd assume it provides the time to other devices A quick google shows that some people use them to set the time on their HP 85 on startup. I guess that sort of thing would have been quite common, having the device that collects and/or analyses data also get the time from this sort of clock.
Frank Gevaerts
2020-09-10 08:27:40 +0000 UTCWhat was the purpose of the HP 59309A HP-IB Digital Clock back in the days? Did it provide a time signal to other HP devices or was it ust for, well, displaying the time?
Christian Giudici
2020-09-10 06:54:54 +0000 UTC
