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I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they probably
mean 'terrestrial'.

Bill

On 8 Jan, 03:41, "Bill Wright" wrote:
I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they probably
mean 'terrestrial'.

Bill

Thirty Five years ago I was at school doing PE and the teacher asked
us to spin around clockwise. One kid sat down crying "but i've got a
digital watch".

Doc

In message ,
Dr Hfuhruhurr Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

On 8 Jan, 03:41, "Bill Wright" wrote:
I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they
probably mean 'terrestrial'.

Bill

Thirty Five years ago I was at school doing PE and the teacher asked
us to spin around clockwise. One kid sat down crying "but i've got a
digital watch".

Doc

35 years ago...? Were digital watches commonly available in 1973? Or was
this a very rich kid...?

....Or was it just a joke?


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"ChrisM" wrote in message

35 years ago...? Were digital watches commonly available in 1973?

Yes they were but "digital" meant different then.

The watch would have numbers to display the time, rather than hands.
Same with radio displays, anologue would be a string pulling a pionter on a
scale, later we had "digital" tuning, a readout with numbers.

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David

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On 8 Jan, 09:30, "ChrisM" wrote:
In message ,
Dr Hfuhruhurr Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

On 8 Jan, 03:41, "Bill Wright" wrote:
I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they
probably mean 'terrestrial'.

Bill

Thirty Five years ago I was at school doing PE and the teacher asked
us to spin around clockwise. One kid sat down crying "but i've got a
digital watch".

Doc

35 years ago...? Were digital watches commonly available in 1973? Or was
this a very rich kid...?

...Or was it just a joke?

It was a joke, but I did get my years wrong. it was more like 30 years
ago. I had one, a Casio.
I looked just like this http://www.casio.co.uk/Products/Watc...%20a%20Glance/

Doc

In message ,
Steve Wolstenholme Proclaimed from the tallest
tower:

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:30:30 -0000, "ChrisM"
wrote:

In message
, Dr
Hfuhruhurr Proclaimed from the tallest
tower:

On 8 Jan, 03:41, "Bill Wright" wrote:
I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they
probably mean 'terrestrial'.

Bill

Thirty Five years ago I was at school doing PE and the teacher asked
us to spin around clockwise. One kid sat down crying "but i've got a
digital watch".

Doc

35 years ago...? Were digital watches commonly available in 1973? Or
was this a very rich kid...?


I had a LED digital watch about 35 years ago. It was silly money but I
didn't buy it. It was a present. I had to press a button to switch on
the display which was a stupid idea but, as I said, it was a present.

Steve

Ahh yes, being a bit bored, I just had a look at the history of digital
watches. Between 35 and 30 years ago was exactly when they were first
emerging.
35 years ago, you could buy one but it'd set you back a grand. 31 years ago,
you could buy one for a fiver...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1006534

Mind you, I'm not actually totally convinced about the accuracy of that
article...
In one paragraph they say:
'Digital watches even in the late 1970s still necessitated two hands - one
to wear the watch and the other to press the button to turn on the LED
display.'

in the next:
'However, by 1973 Seiko yet again led the way, this time with the first
watch to utilise LCD technology.'

Hmmm.


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Regards,
Chris.
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In article ,
ChrisM wrote:
In message ,
Dr Hfuhruhurr Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

On 8 Jan, 03:41, "Bill Wright" wrote:
I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they
probably mean 'terrestrial'.

Bill

Thirty Five years ago I was at school doing PE and the teacher asked
us to spin around clockwise. One kid sat down crying "but i've got a
digital watch".

Doc

35 years ago...? Were digital watches commonly available in 1973? Or was
this a very rich kid...?

...Or was it just a joke?

I well remember a workmate 'flashing' his new Sinclair LED watch in '78.
If such a thing was available 5 years earlier I doubt a kid would have
afforded one.

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*Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional

Dave Plowman London SW
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"Bill Wright" wrote:

I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they probably
mean 'terrestrial'.

Have you got that backwards? Or are some people really calling their DTT
reception "analogue"?

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Dave Farrance

Steve Wolstenholme wrote:

I had a LED digital watch about 35 years ago. It was silly money but I
didn't buy it. It was a present. I had to press a button to switch on
the display which was a stupid idea but, as I said, it was a present.

Didn't somebody come up with a plastic widget which slipped
underneath the watch, enabling the button to be pressed by
flexing the wrist?

Chris
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Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


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"Dave Farrance" wrote in message
...
"Bill Wright" wrote:

I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they
probably
mean 'terrestrial'.

Have you got that backwards? Or are some people really calling their DTT
reception "analogue"?

That's exactly what I mean. They refer to satellite as 'digital' and DTT as
'analogue'. When they have an IDTV they have no idea that the transmission
is digital. All they know is that they have a new telly and it gets more
channels than the old telly, and that they also have Sky, which as everyone
knows is synonymous with 'satellite' and 'digital'. To differentiate between
the two they call everything that isn't Sky 'analogue'.

Of course customers often ring up to say that they need an aerial for the
Sky, which could mean that they need a dish, or it could mean that they want
to extend the dish cable. Because the cable is known as the aerial, you see.
So when someone rings up and says that they want to move the aerial to the
other side of the room it could mean that they want to lengthen the dish
cable. Or it might mean something else completely. Geddit?

Sometimes people ring up and say, "Could you sell me a fifty foot aerial,
Bill? I'll come round for it on my bike if that's all right. Will you put
the plugs on?"

I've told it on here before, but I used to have a customer whose signal
varied enormously with the seasons, due to trees. He had a variety of
attenuators at the ready near his distribution amp, called 'my
calmer-downers'.

These days when they book a call I just put a question mark in the box and
turn up fully equippped.

Oh, and when the old ones complain about the Light Programme they usually
mean ITV.

Bill