[Boatanchors] Speaking of cheap stuff (was harbor freight and soldering guns)

[Pete Lancashire]

Today 99.9% of analog clock use a module that was cloned from one that I
think originated in Japan a good 20 years ago.

http://www.clockworks.com/clock-movement/quartz-clock-movements-time-only.html


I picked the above URL only since it was the first one when I did a Google
search

The rest is all 'chrome' :-)

What I have is a bit 'nuts' since I am a member of the "time-nuts" group. I
have 3 of the old IBM office/school clocks most of
us grew up with. Their big competitor was Simplex. They run from a central
"server" that produces 1 pulse per second. And
can also be reset remotely. In a way the boat anchors of office clocks.

-pete






On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I simply had in mind a round clock face maybe 8 or 10 inches diameter.
> Don't care about syncing to anything.  But thanks for providing
> specifics.
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Pete Lancashire
> <pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:
> > Digital ?  Small digits or LARGE digits ?
> >
> > Analog ? Small or Big (10" or larger)
> >
> > Synced to a reference (WWVB, NTP, etc ) ?
> >
> > -pete
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