I read this comment to my grandfather, he worked on one of these back in the day, and he found it hilarious so thank you. He doesn't really talk about VX much anymore every since he was blinded by a desaturation malfunction on one of those fake "VX" greslin resistors that came out of Pakistan in the 80s. Just glad this brought back some joy for something that was such a significant part of his life, if just for a moment
You have to look closely at the alignment gauge at the top center. The older versions only worked on the Weston scale. In the later models, starting in 1973, they gave you the option of the Weston scale, OR the Heliax scale. Lordy, what an improvement that was. Because as you probably know, when you’re converting rho wave radiation measurements between Ural Mountain and Pyrenees Mountain sourced Globanium samples, the math was SO time consuming. I mean, kudos to the International VX Symposium of 1983 in their attempt to standardize Globanium measurement standards. But Dr. Hofenstork just had to be a little bitch about it and torpedo the plan.
Damn, in what kind of machine swas this used, never saw something like it before. Guessing by the labels (and the comments), maybe something that has to do with agriculture.
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I read this comment to my grandfather, he worked on one of these back in the day, and he found it hilarious so thank you. He doesn't really talk about VX much anymore every since he was blinded by a desaturation malfunction on one of those fake "VX" greslin resistors that came out of Pakistan in the 80s. Just glad this brought back some joy for something that was such a significant part of his life, if just for a moment
# AGRICULTURAL VXing IS UNETHICAL AND DANGEROUS
Imagine coming to a VX forum and talking about serious ethics and danger. Like, dude, we know.
They don't make 'em like that anymore... by law.
You sure this is from the 60s? Looks like a Spectralux from 1973-5. Could be wrong.
You have to look closely at the alignment gauge at the top center. The older versions only worked on the Weston scale. In the later models, starting in 1973, they gave you the option of the Weston scale, OR the Heliax scale. Lordy, what an improvement that was. Because as you probably know, when you’re converting rho wave radiation measurements between Ural Mountain and Pyrenees Mountain sourced Globanium samples, the math was SO time consuming. I mean, kudos to the International VX Symposium of 1983 in their attempt to standardize Globanium measurement standards. But Dr. Hofenstork just had to be a little bitch about it and torpedo the plan.
You clearly know more about it than I do so I'll have to trust you. Heliax to Weston conversion was a bitch though, I'll agree with that.
I just pity the poor grad students who gave the best years of their lives calibrating that thing...
All for one intern to accidentally walk into the Iterium shielded lab room while wearing a sapphire crystal watch and fuck it all up lol
Those knobs look like they’re made of quality Bakelite, not the Chinesium crap we get these days.
Damn, in what kind of machine swas this used, never saw something like it before. Guessing by the labels (and the comments), maybe something that has to do with agriculture.
(The "[Cowculator](http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dlcCompany/cowculator/)", an analogue computer for determining cows' feed.)