Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!

From	jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Newsgroups	comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!
Date	2011-09-08 14:10 +0000
Organization	"Have EDDT, will travel"
Message-ID	<PM0004AC6EBDB7CC9C@aca29b66.ipt.aol.com> (permalink)

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sidd wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 September 2011 10:05, Huge wrote:
>
>> It had Nixie tubes, and I've wanted a Nixie tube clock ever
>> since.
>>
>> [Sighs nostalgically some more].
>>
>
> i once had a very,very,very sensitive ohmmeter with Nixie tube
> display, designed to measure large numbers of ohms. i could
> stand on a ladder to the head of the cryostat and run a probe past
> a rail of a hundred connections or so, and watch the display on the
> rack across the room and if i had any leakage at all, the whole
> display would flash...if the display remained dark i would laff
> like a maniac since that meant i would not have to warm up the
> cryostat and find and fix the short...which sometimes had the
> orrible habit of disappearing at room temperature...
>

What a kewl lab.  How did you find the disappearing shorts?

/BAH

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Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-08 14:10 +0000
  Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! sidd <sidd@situ.com> - 2011-09-08 14:08 -0400
    Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-09 15:21 +0000
      Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-10 06:00 +1000

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