Perhaps it's time for someone to invent a wind up one to avoid batteries
as they have with radios?

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*No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes *

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:13:30 +0100, Dave Plowman
wrote:

Perhaps it's time for someone to invent a wind up one to avoid batteries
as they have with radios?

Purely mechanical? It'll never work, you know.

Thomas Prufer

In message , Dave Plowman
writes
Perhaps it's time for someone to invent a wind up one to avoid batteries
as they have with radios?

A wind up watch ?

Nah - it'll never catch on
--
geoff

In message , geoff
writes
In message , Dave Plowman
writes
Perhaps it's time for someone to invent a wind up one to avoid batteries
as they have with radios?

A wind up watch ?

Nah - it'll never catch on

Great minds think alike eh Thomas?

.... and fools never differ
--
geoff

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:13:30 +0100, Dave Plowman
wrote:

Perhaps it's time for someone to invent a wind up one to avoid batteries
as they have with radios?

Or a sundial?

There was a website where the frugal could enter latitude/longitude,
and receive a free PDF file for a custom cardboard sundial, complete
with cut-out gnomon, and seasonal analemmas (analemmae?).

Gone now, sadly. I've got one for 48 8' N, 11 84' E...

Thomas Prufer

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:16:38 +0100, Tim
wrote:

Anything like this ?
http://www.sundials.co.uk/projects.htm

No...

BTW..... the website you mentioned might be archived at
http://www.archive.org/ ?

Yes, but... The "Sundial Generator" link came down sometime in 2000,
and is preserved in the archives -- but the older links try to run a
script at gcstudio.com that they've taken down.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gcstudio.com

The October 10, 1999 link, second link on that page for those with
time on their hands.


Thomas Prufer