[SI-LIST] Re: Not quite ready to let go of the WOM gag yet ....
- From: olaney@xxxxxxxx
- To: art_porter@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:14:47 -0700
That's a variant of the darkbulb [1].
Orin
References
[1] Definition of a Darkbulb, DeLucas, James R., Best of The Journal of
Irreproducable Results p 180 - 181, Workman Publishing, NY, NY 1983
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 07:31:18 -0600 <art_porter@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> My favorite was the flashdark. You turn it on in the daylight and it
> casts a beam of darkness. Kind of like some managers, college
> professors, and politicians, just to name three groups who
> frequently cast darkness on things that are otherwise fully
> illuminated.
>
> Art Porter
> Agilent Technologies
>
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>
> Two other favorites of mine, wondering if anyone knows of a link to
> them
> ...
> The Dark Emitting Diode (DeD) - I think this was a magazine article.
> The
> devices were produced by taking ordinary LEDs and subjecting them to
> 120VAC.
> They were reported to be useful as power-off indicators, and boasted
> a
> manufacturing yield of 100%.
>
> The Vacuum Tube Modem - also a magazine article (I think). Reported
> to
> achieve incredible speeds by taking advantage of nonlinear behavior
> intrinsicto the device. Also reported in the same article - a
> Russian
> tube-based microprocessor, based on a single tube. It was called
> the
> PentiumProtubeski, if my memory is correctly functioning in a
> write-read
> capacity.
>
> If you've got links to those articles, they'd be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Todd.
> -- Todd Westerhoff VP, Software Products SiSoft 6 Clock Tower Place,
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