Turning Grandpa's Oscilloscope into a Clock - Neatorama

Sometime around 1960, Aaron's grandfather purchased an oscilloscope. He passed it down in his family in excellent condition. Lacking any other use for it, Aaron turned the oscilloscope into a clock. You can see build photos at the link.

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Grandpa probably *built* the o-scope.

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One can probably built USB storage devices into each doll so they would serve the purpose. Although 1 bit and 1 Tb will be tricky :))
Until this is done, any of my dolls at http://matryoshkastore.com/ can easily challenge it

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Wheres Nibble, Petabyte, Exabyte and Yottabyte?

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Too bad these aren't "to scale"!

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*Writes note to self: Get For Husband*

--TwoDragons

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damn cool!! I need them for my office desktop!

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They forgot the nibble! (1/2 of a bit.)

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Too bad they're the incorrectly-used power-of-ten names,, not the standard power-of-two names.

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A nybble/nibble is 1/2 of a byte. (I assume that was just a typo, since 1/2 of a bit is pretty much meaningless except statistically.) And if you're going to include that then you should probably include at least word and doubleword.

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