Re: What's taters?

In article <437BFA82.5040309@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Brooks Moses <bmoses-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Wilson Heydt wrote:
>> Ooohhh....is the cycle counting ligic vacuum tubes, too?
>> (The simplest way to make an accurate electric or electronic clock
>> is to let the power company do the hard part. If you can count AC
>> cycles, just divide by appropriate numbers and--voila!--you have a
>> clock.)
>
>And, if you have it compare the output to a better clock, you can use it
>to tell whether the power company's generators are running over or under
>their rated load! :)

the power companies *used* to resync to NBS time way late at night.
Don't they do that any more?

--
Hal Heydt
Albany, CA

My dime, my opinions.
.

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