> 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...
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 _______________________________________________ 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.
