In a message dated 05/09/2008 23:23:37 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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. -------------- 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... ----------- OK I get it.... The cubicle was advanced for it's time because it was sitting on a chunk of rock. I like that, it's really good.... especially when one considers how the Dilbert principle has demonstrated the very great difficulty involved in finding a stable cubicle. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
