Thursday, November 12, 2015

what everyone, who isn't into cars, hears when I start talking about cars



Remember having to sit through ojt videos in the 90's? Cure for insomnia. Worse, I get 1/2 of what he is saying, and he's making perfect sense

Jeff used the comment function to outgeek me, he knew the name of the contraption and the narrator!

Here's a link to the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o For me, it's better than the one posted, being the original. It was done by a gent named Bud Haggart, who used to narrate technical videos in Detroit.

He was a funny guy, and unbelievably believable... Here's a history of the Turbo Encabulator from Computerworld: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2474570/computer-hardware/the-long-and-glorious-history-of-the-turbo-encabulator.html


With this simple sentence, the Turbo-Encabulator was born.
For a number of years now work has been proceeding in order to bring to perfection the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would not only supply inverse reactive current for us in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters.

2 comments:

  1. Ah, yessss... the Turbo Encabulator.

    Here's a link to the original video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o

    For me, it's better than the one posted, being the original. It was done by a gent named Bud Haggart, who used to narrate technical videos in Detroit. He was a funny guy, and unbelievably believable...
    Here's a history of the Turbo Encabulator from Computerworld:

    http://www.computerworld.com/article/2474570/computer-hardware/the-long-and-glorious-history-of-the-turbo-encabulator.html

    Enjoy,
    Jeff


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    1. holy crap... you out geeked me! Thanks!

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