I'll never use an oscilloscope again

[olds...@tubes.com]

While looking at an oscilloscope, a human-like figure appeared on the
screen. It was an alien from another planet, teleported to Earth.

Good grief, I always thought oscilloscopes were only supposed to show
wave forms.....

Then the figure came out of the oscope and began attacking and killing
people and destroying things.... (televisation)

This is some real scary shit...... [as I pull a blanket over my head]
Damn,,,,, I never knew oscilloscopes were this dangerous.....

Seen only on "The Outer Limits".

There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust the
picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder,
we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune
it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the
vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the
focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. We can change
your operating system in the blink of an eye. For the next hour sit
quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there
is nothing wrong with your computer. You are about to participate in a
great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which
reaches from the mind of the internet, to... The Outer Limits.

This show from 1963. Called "The_Galaxy_Being".
Takes place at Radio Station KVKVI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Galaxy_Being

I get the biggest laugh out of that show and how they used all the
electronic stuff from that time to scare the crap out of people...

We now return control of your computer to you......
(Until next week).


Followup Action:
To be safe, I just unplugged my oscilloscope, so it cant turn itself
on......... But should I put electrical tape on the power cord prongs
too?
Nah, I think I'll just take the scope to the garage and shut off all the
breakers in the garage.....

[Phil Allison]

olds...@tubes.com wrote:

>
>
> This show from 1963. Called "The_Galaxy_Being".
> Takes place at Radio Station KVKVI.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Galaxy_Being
>

** I remember watching that episode on B&W TV in Melbourne.

It was verrrry scary stuff ...



.... Phil

[N_Cook]

I've been enjoying watching the first series of "The Avengers" in the
UK, only seen the Diana Rigg ones before (much higher production values
for those). This was in and around 1963, with Honor Blackman. Wobbly
scenery , Mcnee fogetting his lines (done live in those days as no
electronic recording and editting), hilarious fight scenes, close-ups on
non-existent items as an actor had not correctly placed the item ,etc.
Ever involving fiends with electronic devices, , jamming ICBM radar
receivers, electronic rays stopping anything like motors at a distance,
etc. Every episode has an actor who went on to be famous.
No mention of an interociter yet though

[analogdial]

HaHaHa! The station engineer in that episode was named Allan Maxwell.

Possibly the inspiration for that great SW radio pirate broadcaster,
Alan Maxwell:

https://archive.org/details/KipmIlluminatiPrimaMateria-AlanMaxwellPirateShortwave

"He who shrank" is lifted directly from an Outer Limits episode. Maybe
others.

[analogdial]

My mistake. It's "He who evolved" that was lifted. Well, it's been
about 15 years.

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

On Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:30:33 -0400, olds...@tubes.com wrote:

>While looking at an oscilloscope, a human-like figure appeared on the
>screen. It was an alien from another planet, teleported to Earth.

At work about 50 years ago we had a oscilloscope that could project
onto a screen for talks and demonstrations. It was just a plain old
scope mounted upright that aimed the image onto a oily reflector. It
had to be in a dark room to make the projection clear. One day an
insect fell into the oil. Now that was a scary image.

Steve

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[Trevor Wilson]

**Mmmm. Diana Rigg. The subject of more than one schoolboy dream. Then
there was that beautiful Lotus Elan. Mmmm.

Still, a young Joanne Lumley was delectable in The New Avengers...

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www.rageaudio.com.au

[Trevor Wilson]

**OOps. Typo. Joanna Lumley

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[N_Cook]

The oh so memorable and remarkable for the time, Diana Rigg in the S&M
dungeon Avengers episode.

[Trevor Wilson]

**Bugger. Now you've got me thinking. I best speak to the missus later
tonight...


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On Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 3:02:41 AM UTC-4, Phil Allison wrote:

>
> ** I remember watching that episode on B&W TV in Melbourne.
>
> It was verrrry scary stuff ...
>
>
>
> .... Phil

> Any other person who disagrees would simply say so and state their case.

** WRONG: this NG is not a "chat room" for retards.

> .... Phil


Hey Phil, this is not a "chat room" so let's try to keep this about electronics repair. Thanks.

[jurb...@gmail.com]

>"
** I remember watching that episode on B&W TV in Melbourne.

It was verrrry scary stuff ... "

Well we all knew it was TV.

Anyway, I watched a documentary on that show and it was somewhat interesting. they had to come up with a show every week, it as not like today, write some stupid shit and send it to the boys with the super MAC computers for special effects. Galaxy Man was a guy in a wetsuit with motor oil poured all over him and a few spotlights. They knew how to do blacklighting but that was about it with the double exposures.

But think, I think they actually had to WRITE the episode.

That was back when things took a bit of effort. I can't stand new shows, with their video tricks you think the telly is fucked up and needs service. Fucked up color, green and white like a bad CRT. Jiggling, rolling and all that. the broadcasting equipment used to be designed to avoid that, that's why they had genlock.

I can't stand new TV or movies. So much special effects, guys jumping fifty feet up in the air and all that shit. Where's the goddam plot ? What was this all about anyway ?

But that is the way it goes, every year there is less and less keeping me here.

[Michael A. Terrell]

Genlock? TV stations had one or maybe two sync generators. If they had
two, there was either a manual, or automatic fail over function.The
video would jump to any external sync, if the input was used to attempt
'genlock'. That was how I transmitted a color ID from a B&W TV station
in the early '70s. For those who don't know, the H and V sweep was
slightly different for Monochrome and Color. I fed the output of a
Heathkit color bar generator into the sync generators, as well as the
video input on the crude RCA keying function of the Monochrome video
router. I also disabled the TV transmitter's chroma trap which was used
to prevent color TVs from trying to lock onto noise in the colorburst
range of 3,579,545 Hz. I did all of this, to prove that the station
could be converted to color.


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They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)

[Michael A. Terrell]

N_Cook wrote:
>
> No mention of an interociter yet though

Lucas couldn't get a license to build Interociters.

[mako...@yahoo.com]

It does sometimes happen that you can see the video picture on an oscope waveform.

It can happen with a simple picture like the station call letters when the scene lighting is such that the left of the picture is brighter then the right , and you have the scope set to the V rate.

or something like that,

it is eerie.

mark

[bruce2...@gmail.com]

When was that movie at the box office?

[John Robertson]

There was a short story that took care of the problem of machines not
being connected to power - they simply started up themselves. I recall
driverless buses crushing pedestrians and tanks, etc running around
killing everyone they could. What was the name of the story! 1950s I'm
pretty sure...

John

[Chuck]

The New Avengers was a British ITV production which was shown late
night in the USA on CBS during the late 70s.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071717/

KillDozer.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

[Cursitor Doom]

And it wasn't a movie, it was a TV series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10QW3Az1FTw

[Michael A. Terrell]

Some simple hand drawn cartoons would do that on a waveform monitor
at the AFRTS TV station zi worked at in the '70s. I saw 'Quickdraw
McGraw walk across the screen of a Tektronix RM529 more than once. :)

[John Robertson]

That was movie, this was a short Sci-Fi story whose name & Author I
can't recall. I now think that it was from the 40s.

I recall hearing about KillDozer but never saw the movie...

John :-#)#

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On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 5:48:24 PM UTC-4, John Robertson wrote:

>
> That was movie, this was a short Sci-Fi story whose name & Author I
> can't recall. I now think that it was from the 40s.
>
> I recall hearing about KillDozer but never saw the movie...
>
> John :-#)#

Theodore Sturgeon. Short Story, same name, and the basis of the movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdozer!_(short_story)

[John Robertson]

Nope, not that story.

This had toasters, cars, buses all becoming 'aware' and deciding to
destroy the enemy (humans). Perhaps KillDozer was based on the original
story. It (the original short story) is buried in my books that are
still boxed up when I moved houses five years ago. Possibly written by a
one-time author.

There are never enough bookshelves!

John :-#(#
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On Friday, August 11, 2017 at 11:19:22 AM UTC-4, John Robertson wrote:

>
> Nope, not that story.
>

hmmmm... that might be "Skirmish" by Clifford Simak.

http://prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article259

[Jim Buchanan]

"Mechasm"? Perhaps?

[Michael A. Terrell]

You might try:

news:rec.arts.sf.written

or http://www.isfdb.org/

[analogdial]

John Robertson wrote:


>>
>
> Nope, not that story.
>
> This had toasters, cars, buses all becoming 'aware' and deciding to
> destroy the enemy (humans). Perhaps KillDozer was based on the original
> story. It (the original short story) is buried in my books that are
> still boxed up when I moved houses five years ago. Possibly written by a
> one-time author.
>
> There are never enough bookshelves!
>
> John :-#(#

Sounds like "Maximum Overdrive"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Overdrive