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isw wrote:
Pretty much sums it up. But in those days few had dead accurate clocks
which are so common now.

Actually,they were very close.

Western Union clocks all over the country were almost always all synched
to within a second or so. The technique was to use clocks (those big
things with the red sweep hand you may have seen in a broadcast studio)
that were basically pretty good, and to synch them to a remote timebase
from time to time.

Oh indeed. Master clock systems were common once. But not in the home,
which is what I meant.

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