[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?

Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm at mendelson.com
Mon Mar 27 14:38:43 CST 2006


On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:27:31PM +0200, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> On 3/27/06 1:05 AM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> 
> > how about a deci-clock?  metric time?  one place i worked i rigged up
> > a software clock that redivided the day into 100000 seconds.  100
> > sec/min, 100 min/hr, 10 hr/day...  i got to work about 3.00, lunch at
> > 5.00, left at 6.50.
> 
> Actually, that would be decimal time. Time in the metric (SI) system is
> measured in the usual way: 24 hours a day, 60 minutes per hour, 60 seconds
> per minute.
> 

I used to have a "Mackay Dymek" (a subsidiary of HP whose logo was an 
upside down HP logo) digtial clock. Used Stroeger switches and Nixe tubes.

Geoff.
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