26 May
2005
26 May
'05
8:01 p.m.
Then somebody had a brilliant idea. Down here, where
the air ducts for the
return air from the air conditioner were, they put a bank of fluorescent lights
on each side of the machine. If the filaments were on, they were on, the machine
never had to run in the dark again. It never did. [Laughter] It never was afraid
of the dark again.
Western Electric did this trick with some of their phone gear (they used
quite a lot of gas tubes).
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org