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<font size=3>Neat info, thanks, Earl...<br><br>
At 12:49 PM 12/4/2010, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">"Escapement"
comes from the mechanical clock mechanism and is a device that allows
energy to "escape" from a spring in a regulated incremental
manner. Our escapements did the same thing - applying the energy escape
from the wound rubber band to a lever that moved the control
surface.<br><br>
Earl<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Sorry, the origin of the term
escapement was before my time. Geez! I haven't been
able to say anything like that for a while.<br><br>
Ron VP<br><br>
On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:21 AM, rcmaster199@aol.com wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Ha, ha, ha...very funny
Ron.<br><br>
Are you sure you didn't stick the big key in the back of the TX to
wind that spring up??<br><br>
Hey, BTW, where did the term "escapement" come from?<br><br>
<br>
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Hey! We didn't have to "wind up the radio". We had to wind up
the<br>
escapement rubber band. Big difference!<br><br>
Ron VP<br><br>
On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Bob Richards wrote:<br><br>
> Showing my age? Yeah, I wrote Fortran programs in school - on
punch<br>
> cards. My first personal computer was a TRS80 MIII that I paid<br>
> $1000 for, 16k memory and cassette tape program storage. I
worked<br>
> on point-of-sale systems ("POS" - LOL) that had 32k core
memory. I<br>
> still have a cash register board somewhere with core memory on
it.<br>
><br>
> Well, at least I never flew a plane with a radio that required<br>
> winding up the radio. :-)<br>
><br>
> Bob R.<br>
><br>
> --- On Sat, 12/4/10, Bob Kane <getterflash@yahoo.com>
wrote:<br>
><br>
> You are showing your age. You could see the "bits".<br>
><br>
> Bob Kane<br>
> getterflash@yahoo.com<br>
><br>
> --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Bob Richards <bob@toprudder.com>
wrote:<br>
><br>
> Core memory, I bet!<br>
><br>
><br>
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