Title link takes you to an amazing slideshow of the HP Model 200B Audio Oscillator on Flickr. This on sent my way via Steven Pilker. Link to static set here. Thanks Steven.
Update via Steven in the comments: "My buddy Blake Howell took the pictures and is hosting the Flickr page, just wanted to put in a shout-out!"
Update via Brian Comnes in the comments:
"FWIW and as far as I know the very first product sold by Hewlett Packard from their famous garage was an oscillator like this one maybe a model or two earlier, I can;t remember, and the legend is that then Disney bought a bunch of them for Fantasia and the rest is HP history, prior to HP oscillator's a workbench would have a beat frequency oscillator which was basically a theremin with no antennas , it was just 2 40K coils that were slightly out of synch and you had to calibrate them every session, HP did away with that with that BS with stable accurate frequencies and they sold a lot of them.....then they bought Compaq , oh well"
My buddy Blake Howell took the pictures and is hosting the Flickr page, just wanted to put in a shout-out!
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FWIW and as far as I know the very first product sold by Hewlett Packard from their famous garage was an oscillator like this one maybe a model or two earlier, I can;t remember, and the legend is that then Disney bought a bunch of them for Fantasia and the rest is HP history, prior to HP oscillator's a workbench would have a beat frequency oscillator which was basically a theremin with no antennas , it was just 2 40K coils that were slightly out of synch and you had to calibrate them every session, HP did away with that with that BS with stable accurate frequencies and they sold a lot of them.....then they bought Compaq , oh well
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ReplyDeleteSo are those disks varying capacitance as they rotate?