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John Larkin
OK, he asks innocently, what the hell is a spot wobbler?
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OK, he asks innocently, what the hell is a spot wobbler?
John
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Jim Thompson
John, I thought you were an old fart like me ?
A spot wobbler added a small amount of high frequency modulation to
the vertical deflection of a CRT to blend adjacent scan lines together
so that the individual scan lines weren't so noticeable. But it
tended to blur the whole picture.
It was in and out of vogue in about a year's time, mid to late '50's.
...Jim Thompson
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Paul Burridge
Interesting. I can't say I've heard of either. Do they have web sites
where one might get some idea of what stock they carry?
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Jan Panteltje
Correct
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Precious Pup
N. Thornton said:
Funnier than hell.
From Radiotron:
"Disadvantages of the Reflex Receiver
1. Increased cost due to additional components."
Is this the thread where all the old fartknockers get to play pretend?
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John Larkin
John, I thought you were an old fart like me ?
A spot wobbler added a small amount of high frequency modulation to
the vertical deflection of a CRT to blend adjacent scan lines together
so that the individual scan lines weren't so noticeable. But it
tended to blur the whole picture.
It was in and out of vogue in about a year's time, mid to late '50's.
...Jim Thompson
Never heard of it! Maybe that's the year I discovered girls.
Why didn't they just use crappy electron optics to fuzz up the spot
diameter?
Funny, we're still using NTSC and my TV doesn't show visible scan
lines at a normal viewing distance. It *doesn't* have a frame buffer
or anything fancy like that.
Tnx for the info.
John
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Allan Herriman
Thanks. I didn't know that (as I usually only see stuff from Asian
manufacturers).
Regards,
Allan.
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John Larkin
Hey, small cur, you are both ignorant and obnoxious, not a terribly
appealing combination.
The good thing about researching old techniques is that you never know
when an updated version might be useful in solving a modern problem,
or when some deeply-buried mental analogy mechanism may use old ideas
to synthesize something new. Almost everything I ever learned, or ever
did, even though it may have seemed pointless at the time, adds to my
mental flexibility to invent new stuff.
I don't pretend, I invent. The reflex amp was a cool idea; some day I
may need to need to pass two separate frequency bands through a shared
pipelined multiplier in an FPGA, or consider the nonlinearities of a
multi-wavelength optically-pumped FDA. I'm currently redesigning a
50-year old, "obsolete" distributed amplifier using heterojunction
GaAs fets, to modulate the world's largest laser.
It sounds to me like your young brain is a lot more rigid than mine.
Radiotron is 50 years obsolete, so why do you consider it superior in
philosophy to, say, Morcroft's classic of 1927? Books are sources for
ideas, not authority.
John
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Jerry Avins
Roger said:
So what else is new? We armed Osama bin Laden, sold arms and
poison-gas manufacturing equipment to Iraq under Saddam Husein,
and generally trade mayhem machines for money all over the world.
That's the American Way: get used to it. Lenin was half right
when he said, "When it comes time to hang the last capitalist, he
will sell us the rope". He was exactly right about capitalism and
how capitalists operate. He was dead wrong about it being weak. I
deplore Henry Ford's support of and admiration for Hitler. What I
glory in is living in a country where neither Ford's view nor its
exact opposite may not be openly expressed or privately acted on.
It's too bad that common sense or public opinion didn't deflect
Ford's and the Rockerfellers' blind support for a monster. It's a
damn good thing that our government can't.
Jerry
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John Larkin
It wasn't obvious in 1933 that Hitler was a monster. Once it became
obvious, Ford Motor Company made a big chunk of the planes, trucks,
and tanks that saved England and liberated Europe from the Nazis.
"Capitalism" is just another way to say "pluralist economy." National
Socialism was not capitalism, as it turned out.
Live and learn.
John
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Roger Johansson
It was very obvious that he was out to kill all socialists and jews he
could find, and that he hated Russia and communism.
" In 1924 the Allies appointed a committee of bankers (headed by American
banker Charles G. Dawes) to develop a program of reparations payments. The
resulting Dawes Plan was, according to Georgetown University Professor of
International Relations Carroll Quigley, "largely a J.P. Morgan
production."5 The Dawes Plan arranged a series of foreign loans totaling
$800 million with their proceeds flowing to Germany. These loans are
important for our story because the proceeds, raised for the greater part
in the United States from dollar investors, were utilized in the mid-1920s
to create and consolidate the gigantic chemical and steel combinations of
I. G. Farben and Vereinigte Stahlwerke, respectively. These cartels not
only helped Hitler to power in 1933; they also produced the bulk of key
German war materials used in World War II"
It was the capitalists spearhead against socialism, democracy and a decent
new world order.
The idea of the corporate culture, big corporations steering governments,
started in this era, as the most important fascist-capitalist idea of a
future where finance could control governments.
"This interplay of ideas and cooperation between Hjalmar Sehacht in Germany
and, through Owen Young, the J.P. Morgan interests in New York, was only
one facet of a vast and ambitious system of cooperation and international
alliance for world control. As described by Carroll Quigley, this system
was "... nothing less than to create a world system of financial control,
in private hands, able to dominate the political system of each country and
the economy of the world as a whole.12
This feudal system worked in the 1920s, as it works today, through the
medium of the private central bankers in each country who control the
national money supply of individual economies. In the 1920s and 1930s, the
New York Federal Reserve System, the Bank of England, the Reichs-bank in
Germany, and the Banque de France also more or less influenced the
political apparatus of their respective countries indirectly through
control of the money supply and creation of the monetary environment. More
direct influence was realized by supplying political funds to, or
withdrawing support from, politicians and political parties."
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John Woodgate
I read in sci.electronics.design that Jan Panteltje
Good engineering solution.How about my IF frequency determination method
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N. Thornton
the mark of a true fool
Hehe.Regards, NT
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Rick Lyons
Roger, please don't be a jerk and call me a liar.
There's no reason to do so.
I'd never call you a liar.
When someone curses you, you say
"See, look at the foul-mouthed American."
You're just as bad as them.
Ya know what's *really* peculiar though?
Your post mentioned the I. G. Farben
Company. I met the deranged American,
of which I spoke, in the I. G. Farben
Hochhaus, Frankfurt Germany, in 1978.
I worked in that building for two years.
Forget about the Duponts, the real
American villains were the top managers
of the American IBM Company. They had a
solid, profitable, relationship with Hitler in
building machine that were efficient in collecting,
compiling, and analyzing data. The data was
about people, who they were, where they lived,
and who their relatives. The Nazis used the data
to track Jews.
Be that as it may, you owe your freedom of speech
to America. The Soviets alone may not have been able
to defeat the Nazis without America. But the Americans
alone would have won World War II without the Soviets.
Thus saving ungrateful you from tyranny.
Remember the lampshades!
Every morning you should say, "God Bless America!"
[-Rick-]
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EU
Jerry Avins said:
Hi Jerry.
Just to contradict you. US has officially supported some of the
military dictatorships in South America. It was believed to be so for
a long time, but recent opening of US documents during Clinton
government, as well as some document of the dictatorships in South
America that were released recently gave proof to that. In the
specific case of Brazil, the army has taken power by force in response
to the election of a socialist president. In case of resistence, US
army had backup to support this in Brazilian waters.
IMHO US isn´t the good guy, but the big one that beats the
smaller that are not behaving as he wants.
Me
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Jim Thompson
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:48:18 -0800, John Larkin
[snip]
We have *MANY* lurkers here who think "in-print" means "authority", if
you get my gist ;-)
...Jim Thompson
[snip]
We have *MANY* lurkers here who think "in-print" means "authority", if
you get my gist ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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Jerry Avins
Ross said:
Lemme see now: TQBFJOLDB .... Oh! I get it. Neat!
Jerry
P.S. No soap; radio.
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Jerry Avins
John Larkin wrote:
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It was obvious that he was a dictator who didn't allow his people the
freedoms that rich industrialists thought they could buy for themselves
anywhere. (They were wrong about that too.) I suspect that Hitler's
anti-Semitism was part of his attraction to many. That changed for a
while, but it seems to be resurgent.
Jerry
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"Europe needs a strongman. That's more important than civil liberties"
"The end justifies the means" Do those quotes resonate in the present?
--
"The rights of the best of men are secured only as the
rights of the vilest and most abhorrent are protected."
- Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, 1927
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing." - attributed to Edmund Burke 1770?
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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It was obvious that he was a dictator who didn't allow his people the
freedoms that rich industrialists thought they could buy for themselves
anywhere. (They were wrong about that too.) I suspect that Hitler's
anti-Semitism was part of his attraction to many. That changed for a
while, but it seems to be resurgent.
Jerry
______________________________
"Europe needs a strongman. That's more important than civil liberties"
"The end justifies the means" Do those quotes resonate in the present?
--
"The rights of the best of men are secured only as the
rights of the vilest and most abhorrent are protected."
- Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, 1927
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing." - attributed to Edmund Burke 1770?
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
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Jim Thompson
That resurgence is going to end up being Europe's downfall.
...Jim Thompson
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Fred Bloggs
N. Thornton said:
Hmmm- not so actually- can you think of a way to use the reflex to make
a single transistor FSM with 60dB dynamic range? I can
But a certainobjectionable character needs to leave before I will *ever* post a
schematic
