On 29 Sep,  
     bobharvey  wrote:

> About a million years ago I had to pass a trade test in a thing called
> a "marcoini auto-alarm", a device for decoding 4 second dashes send by
> morse.  It had a small frequency multiplier used as a reference
> clock.  The lecturer told us that the previous version used a
> synchronous motor and a gear box, but that the electronic version "did
> the multiplication far more accurately than a pair of gears could".
>
Eh!

 
> Much bogglment.

And here TAAAW.

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