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Ha, ha, ha...very funny Ron.
?
Are you sure you didn't stick the big key in the back of the TX to wind that spring up??
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Hey, BTW, where did the term "escapement" come from?




-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Sat, Dec 4, 2010 11:16 am
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up




Hey!  We didn't have to "wind up the radio".  We had to wind up the   
escapement rubber band.  Big difference! 
 
Ron VP 
 
On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Bob Richards wrote: 
 
> Showing my age? Yeah, I wrote Fortran programs in school - on punch   
> cards. My first personal computer was a TRS80 MIII that I paid   
> $1000 for, 16k memory and cassette tape program storage. I worked   
> on point-of-sale systems ("POS" - LOL) that had 32k core memory. I   
> still have a cash register board somewhere with core memory on it. 
> 
> Well, at least I never flew a plane with a radio that required   
> winding up the radio. :-) 
> 
> Bob R. 
> 
> --- On Sat, 12/4/10, Bob Kane <getterflash at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 
> You are showing your age.  You could see the "bits". 
> 
> Bob Kane 
> getterflash at yahoo.com 
> 
> --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Bob Richards <bob at toprudder.com> wrote: 
> 
> Core memory, I bet! 
> 
> 
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