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On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:04:04 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:
We had one at Bell Labs and was really an eerie feeling being in there. It was used while measuring sound output levels from our equipment for the government Were you at Bell up here, Duck? Back in maybe '79 met a friend of a friend who worked at Bell on a team developing a new computer language. C. I was still in college and trying to figure out assembler. My brother got dumped out of Lucent when they went down the tubes what - 6-7 years ago? Geez, how the landscape has changed. --Vic |
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:07:33 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:
The one with the anechoic sound chamber I'm referring to was in Skokie, IL. Now it's a shopping center? Old Orchard? Didn't even know about that Bell location. Remember the Sunset drive-in on McCormack? --Vic |
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On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:34:09 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:38:11 -0500, wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:34:22 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:07:43 -0500, wrote: I was referencing audio recording studios, not home theaters playing movies of Bruce Willis blowing stuff up and other exagerated special effects. In an anechoic chamber, you can barely hear a hand clap at all. I have never been in an anechoic chamber. I have fired guns and cherry bombs out on the lake where there is nothing to echo from. Unfamiliar flat sound. Not much echo from grass either. Casady Are you nut Not from calm water back toward the boat. No corners no return. In any case, you can clearly hear the difference. I used to officiate sailboat races and had a 12 gauge starter gun. I have a funny story about a 12 guage starter gun. Something to do with holes in a main sail. :) -- "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." H. L. Mencken |
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On Jan 5, 9:00*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote: On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:34:09 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:38:11 -0500, wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:34:22 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:07:43 -0500, wrote: I was referencing audio recording studios, not home theaters playing movies of Bruce Willis blowing stuff up and other exagerated special effects. In an anechoic chamber, you can barely hear a hand clap at all. I have never been in an anechoic chamber. I have fired guns and cherry bombs out on the lake where there is nothing to echo from. Unfamiliar flat sound. Not much echo from grass either. Casady Are you nut Not from calm water back toward the boat. No corners no return. In any case, you can clearly hear the difference. I used to officiate sailboat races and had a 12 gauge starter gun. I have a funny story about a 12 guage starter gun. Something to do with holes in a main sail. *:) -- "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." H. L. Mencken- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You did it on purpose.. I hear sailboat hulls make good structure for fish to hide in..;) |
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"Vic Smith" wrote in message ... On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:07:33 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: The one with the anechoic sound chamber I'm referring to was in Skokie, IL. Now it's a shopping center? Old Orchard? Didn't even know about that Bell location. Remember the Sunset drive-in on McCormack? --Vic Not Old Orchard, further South in Skokie. Yep, remember Sunset drive-in quite well. Many visits there in the back seat of the car while in high school. 8) |
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"Vic Smith" wrote in message ... On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:04:04 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: We had one at Bell Labs and was really an eerie feeling being in there. It was used while measuring sound output levels from our equipment for the government Were you at Bell up here, Duck? Back in maybe '79 met a friend of a friend who worked at Bell on a team developing a new computer language. C. I was still in college and trying to figure out assembler. My brother got dumped out of Lucent when they went down the tubes what - 6-7 years ago? Geez, how the landscape has changed. --Vic Worked for Teletype Corp that eventually morphed into Bell Labs and moved on out to Naperville. Many friends of mine were caught up in the Lucent fiasco. |
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:03:30 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:07:33 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: The one with the anechoic sound chamber I'm referring to was in Skokie, IL. Now it's a shopping center? Old Orchard? Didn't even know about that Bell location. Remember the Sunset drive-in on McCormack? --Vic Not Old Orchard, further South in Skokie. Yep, remember Sunset drive-in quite well. Many visits there in the back seat of the car while in high school. 8) Cheap thrills huh? ~~ obligatory obscure cultural reference ~~ -- "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." H. L. Mencken |
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"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in message ... On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:34:09 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:38:11 -0500, wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:34:22 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:07:43 -0500, wrote: I was referencing audio recording studios, not home theaters playing movies of Bruce Willis blowing stuff up and other exagerated special effects. In an anechoic chamber, you can barely hear a hand clap at all. I have never been in an anechoic chamber. I have fired guns and cherry bombs out on the lake where there is nothing to echo from. Unfamiliar flat sound. Not much echo from grass either. Casady Are you nut Not from calm water back toward the boat. No corners no return. In any case, you can clearly hear the difference. I used to officiate sailboat races and had a 12 gauge starter gun. I have a funny story about a 12 guage starter gun. Something to do with holes in a main sail. :) -- "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." H. L. Mencken Are you really Barbera from Police Academy? |
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:06:17 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:04:04 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: We had one at Bell Labs and was really an eerie feeling being in there. It was used while measuring sound output levels from our equipment for the government Were you at Bell up here, Duck? Back in maybe '79 met a friend of a friend who worked at Bell on a team developing a new computer language. C. I was still in college and trying to figure out assembler. My brother got dumped out of Lucent when they went down the tubes what - 6-7 years ago? Geez, how the landscape has changed. Worked for Teletype Corp that eventually morphed into Bell Labs and moved on out to Naperville. Many friends of mine were caught up in the Lucent fiasco. I ever tell you my Dad had a beast of a Teletype machine in his radio shack? Surplus military thing - bigger than a freakin' washing machine. -- "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt |
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