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Facinated by BBC clocks and their accuracies
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<blockquote data-quote="Saturlight" data-source="post: 253995" data-attributes="member: 233652"><p>When I was a kid, around 11 years old, I used to love listening to the Jimmy Young show. </p><p></p><p>Jim used to give time checks often, and he also gave way at the top of every hour to the BBC Pips.</p><p></p><p>I was fascinated by the accuracy of Jim's clock. I saw him in a documentary programme in 1976 of him presenting his show on the radio, and it showed his BBC clock. It was white and looked like the sort of clock you'd hang in your kitchen.</p><p></p><p>No way did it look like it would keep the time to the second, but it did, and this was before Quartz. It must have been electrical or something, but it wasn't atomic. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite69" alt=":-ohmy" title="Oh My :-ohmy" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-ohmy" /> </p><p></p><p>Oh I wished I had a clock like that when I was a kid.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite13" alt=":-rofl2" title="roll on floor :-rofl2" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-rofl2" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Saturlight, post: 253995, member: 233652"] When I was a kid, around 11 years old, I used to love listening to the Jimmy Young show. Jim used to give time checks often, and he also gave way at the top of every hour to the BBC Pips. I was fascinated by the accuracy of Jim's clock. I saw him in a documentary programme in 1976 of him presenting his show on the radio, and it showed his BBC clock. It was white and looked like the sort of clock you'd hang in your kitchen. No way did it look like it would keep the time to the second, but it did, and this was before Quartz. It must have been electrical or something, but it wasn't atomic. :o Oh I wished I had a clock like that when I was a kid.:-rofl2 :D [/QUOTE]
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