Thanks, except I remember he went by Barney or Barnie. -John
============= > P.S. There's a better description (in an article by Bernie Oliver) at: > http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1961-03.pdf > > Greg > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Burnett" <gb...@comcast.net> > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > <time-nuts@febo.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 2:07 PM > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: Meter face for HP-4805A > > > Yeah, I remember from the "good old days", we individually calibrated > taut-band meter movements with a HP designed servo-meter calibrator. At > least that's the way we did it for some models. I don't guarantee we did > it > that way for all models, though. > > The way I remember it, this process (regardless of which division's > instrument was involved) was performed at HP Loveland. > > Disclaimer: My memory might be slightly skewed after all these decades. > > For description of the taut-band meter movement calibration, see the HP > Journal article at: > http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1966-01.pdf > > I do agree with the other post, though, that *any* saved/scanned scale is > way better than no (or a damaged) scale. In many cases probably a randomly > scanned scale would match a given meter movement good enough for most our > purposes. > > Greg > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <gsteinb...@aol.com> > To: <time-nuts@febo.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:11 AM > Subject: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: Meter face for HP-4805A > > > Just a quick note... > > HP was quite proud that scales for their precision meters were > individually > produced > for each movement on a custom made servo controlled photographic > calibrator. > > An archive might be nice but won't provide the meter accuracy of the > originals produced > for each unit. > > Jerry > > . > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.