[NSRCA-discussion] 4.8 volt Vs 6.0 volt

[J.Oddino]

I don't see how anyone can call me old.  I've been 29 for as long as I can
remember.  I'm 29 to the 1.274 power now and since I got my new knees I
really feel young.  I went to the gym this week (four weeks after surgery)
and did 1.6 miles in half an hour on the treadmill and made 65 free throws
in a row.  Wait til I get my hook shot back.  None of these young guys have
hook shots so they don't know what to do when they get the ball under the
hoop.  The usual result is a blocked shot.

I hate to admit this, but I remember when servos didn't have numbers.  In
fact I remember when model airplane servos weren't really servos.  They were
actuators with limit switches and neutralizing switches and driven by relays
in the receiver.  Then Bonner/Elliott put transistors in the "servo" to  get
rid of the relays in the receiver.  I'm not sure who gets the credit for
having the first commercially available proportional servos but I remember
giving up building my own and buying some Space Control servos in 1961.
What is most interesting is the fact modern servos work basically the same
as the so called "digital servos" introduced by Mathes and Spreng in about
1963 in their Digicon system.  I think this was before Bob Richards was
born.

Jim O


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Budd" <jerry at buddengineering.com>
To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 4.8 volt Vs 6.0 volt


> >OK.  That settles it.  Jim Oddino is just as old as me and I expect
> >he will be offended that you call people our age old.  He lives out
> >there on the left coast and he will probably find you, wherever you
> >hide, and punish you.  Right Jim?
>
> Yeah, but he's [Bionic] and likely to last forever.  Besides, he
> shoots free throws better than I do.
>
> >  > Sheesh!  Single digit servo numbers?  How <retro>.
> >
> >Single digit servo numbers?  12 is a single digit?  What public
> >school did you graduate from, sonny?
>
> Umm, umm (too embarassed to think of a comeback...!).
>
> >  > Next you're going to tell us how CA bottles used to be sealed with
> >>  wax!
> >
> >CA?  What's that?  The only things I can remember that were sealed
> >with wax were the receiver IF transformers and the little bottles of
> >sweet water you got from the grocery store.
>
> Don't you use wax to hold your false teeth in place?  ;-)
>
> Jerry
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