On 11/4/2012 1:08 PM, hr(bob) wrote:
....

... one of the Microsoft Windows XP
updates put some new intelligence into my machine?

yes

--

On Nov 4, 2:28*pm, dpb wrote:
On 11/4/2012 1:08 PM, hr(bob) wrote:
...

... one of the Microsoft Windows XP
updates put some new intelligence into my machine?

yes

--

Thanks to everyone for confirming what I suspected. The minute
differs from the minute on my cellphone by about 10 seconds, that is
truly amazing. I go back to when a long distance phone call meant
shouting at top volume and then not always being able to hear the
person at the other end , very late 1940's and very early 1950's.

On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 13:20:30 -0800 (PST), "hr(bob) "
wrote:

On Nov 4, 2:28*pm, dpb wrote:
On 11/4/2012 1:08 PM, hr(bob) wrote:
...

... one of the Microsoft Windows XP
updates put some new intelligence into my machine?

yes

--

Thanks to everyone for confirming what I suspected. The minute
differs from the minute on my cellphone by about 10 seconds, that is
truly amazing. I go back to when a long distance phone call meant
shouting at top volume and then not always being able to hear the
person at the other end , very late 1940's and very early 1950's.

I'm a few years younger than you, but I rememmber early and mid 50's
when station-to-statioin was 20 cents a minute, after 8PM and on
weekends,, and we all gathered around the phone to listen/talk to my
grandmother, so she didn't have to say the same thing twice.

While NYC had dial phones then, until about 1955, we'd pick up the
phone and the operator would say Number pleasssse. We'd give her the
number** and I think we heard a ringing sound, unless it was busy, in
which case the operator would come back and say "The line is bussssy".

**For the first few weeks or months in 1945, my mother would say
"OLiver 4-1234, please", but eventually an operator said, "You don't
have to say OLiver 4, Ma'am. They're all OLiver 4. "

On 11/4/2012 7:20 PM, micky wrote:
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 13:20:30 -0800 (PST), "hr(bob) "
wrote:

On Nov 4, 2:28 pm, dpb wrote:
On 11/4/2012 1:08 PM, hr(bob) wrote:
...

... one of the Microsoft Windows XP
updates put some new intelligence into my machine?

yes

--

Thanks to everyone for confirming what I suspected. The minute
differs from the minute on my cellphone by about 10 seconds, that is
truly amazing. I go back to when a long distance phone call meant
shouting at top volume and then not always being able to hear the
person at the other end , very late 1940's and very early 1950's.

I'm a few years younger than you, but I rememmber early and mid 50's
when station-to-statioin was 20 cents a minute, after 8PM and on
weekends,, and we all gathered around the phone to listen/talk to my
grandmother, so she didn't have to say the same thing twice.

While NYC had dial phones then, until about 1955, we'd pick up the
phone and the operator would say Number pleasssse. We'd give her the
number** and I think we heard a ringing sound, unless it was busy, in
which case the operator would come back and say "The line is bussssy".

**For the first few weeks or months in 1945, my mother would say
"OLiver 4-1234, please", but eventually an operator said, "You don't
have to say OLiver 4, Ma'am. They're all OLiver 4. "


On the farm in the 60's we got phone service from a private little rural
phone company and we were on a party line. It was a hoot. ^_^

TDD

On 11-04-2012 21:57, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On the farm in the 60's we got phone service from a private little rural
phone company and we were on a party line. It was a hoot. ^_^

On my parents' farm in the 1980s they had a party line.

--
Wes Groleau

Curmudgeon's Complaints on Courtesy:
http://www.onlinenetiquette.com/courtesy1.html

Wes Groleau wrote:
On 11-04-2012 21:57, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On the farm in the 60's we got phone service from a private little rural
phone company and we were on a party line. It was a hoot. ^_^

On my parents' farm in the 1980s they had a party line.


I remember in the 50's party lines were common in the suburbs. You had to
count the rings. Then quietly pick up handset and listen in.

Greg

On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 03:17:15 +0000 (UTC), gregz
wrote:

Wes Groleau wrote:
On 11-04-2012 21:57, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On the farm in the 60's we got phone service from a private little rural
phone company and we were on a party line. It was a hoot. ^_^

On my parents' farm in the 1980s they had a party line.


I remember in the 50's party lines were common in the suburbs. You had to
count the rings. Then quietly pick up handset and listen in.

Greg

In '57 we moved to the INdianapolis suburbs. When my mother signed up
for a phone, she was told she could have a party line with no one else
on it. I guess they had planned for when there were more people in
the area. So she saved money and it was like a private line for 9
years. till we moved.

Wes Groleau wrote:
On 11-04-2012 21:57, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On the farm in the 60's we got phone service from a private little rural
phone company and we were on a party line. It was a hoot. ^_^

On my parents' farm in the 1980s they had a party line.


Talk about technology. I just picked up my old fashioned tone dial handset,
by tapping on the hangup button on the wall, I called my cell phone. Is
that cool.

I like the old phone, works without external power, and has loud bell. Also
got loud bell in garage.

Greg

"hr(bob) " wrote

Thanks to everyone for confirming what I suspected. The minute
differs from the minute on my cellphone by about 10 seconds, that is
truly amazing. I go back to when a long distance phone call meant
shouting at top volume and then not always being able to hear the
person at the other end , very late 1940's and very early 1950's.

Also realize that your computer has TWO clocks in it, the RTC (real time
clock) which is like a wris****ch and uses a wris****ch type battery. The
computer gets its time from this when you first turn it on.

But after it is on, the computer gets its time from the CPU. This second
clock can run erratically, depending on how much load your computer is
running. On this computer I'm using now, the clock runs fast when the
computer is on. Windows normally automatically updates the clock once a
week with the NIST.

Well, if I let my computer go a week it would be fast by about 2 to 3
minutes. So, I wrote a little script for the registry that changes the time
update to every 6 hours. So, my computer is usually within half a second of
accurate with the NIST at any given time.