Re: Food Prices topic drift to TIME

On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:59:01 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 18:28:01 -0000 (UTC), pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
wrote:

Thanks to Frank and Jeff....I think a decimal clock on the wall would be a
cool conversation piece at any rate...
>
pH

Does anyone ever really talk about conversation pieces?

One of my former customers was a collector of clocks.  He had
collection of antique wooden clocks dating back in the middle ages. He
also collected a few water clocks and clocks with odd displays.  I
helped repair a binary clock with neon lights, an analog clock that
ran backwards, early clock simulations on the original IBM 5150 PC,
and other oddities.  I don't recall if he had a decimal clock.

My first attempt at displaying an analog clock was written in Turbo
Pascal and was on display in the window of a local computer store for
about a year.  People would walk by and set their wristwatches by the
indicated time.  I didn't have the heart to tell them that the IBM PC
RTC was a rather inaccurate and not very temperature stable time base.

Odd clocks
<https://www.google.com/search?q=odd%20clocks&udm=2>

Yes, there are people who talk about clocks.


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