anyone come across one of these in the course of their service work, or demoing old industrial work?

http://www.floobydust.com/turbo-encabulator/ge_turbo-encabulator.pdf


a little more history on this device can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator

Thx for the second link. I looked at the first, and I think I would have understood it better, had it been written in Chinese, Farsi, or Swahili.

I was completely lost in the language, and didn't understand a word

I just bumped it up in the Theory & Discussion area from when Sandsnow shared it with us last Feb. A video is just so much better for understanding high brow theory of this type.
Joe https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000469.html

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I had no idea just how old this joke was

Thanks for the link to the history

Went to the first link and after reading parts of that spec sheet I knew it had to be a joke.

Apparently somebody has too much time on their hands. That document really does look real.

-Hal

do a search for turboencabulator. A bunch of stuff out there.

Here's one:

Legend has it that GE engineers were frustrated by product managers
signing off on products they had no business reviewing - mainly because
they had no technical background whatsoever.

According to the story, the Turboencabulator was submitted to the GE
product management team and signed off as a product!

I know a GE engineer who may have been around close to that time, I will have to ask him.

Fake datasheets have a long history in the engineering field--here's one for a "WOM", or Write Only Memory:
http://academics.vmi.edu/ee_js/Research/IC_Datasheets/digital_cmos/Write%20Only%20Memory.pdf

I love the plot of socket insertions vs. number of pins remaining...

http://www.rane.com/pi14.html

Here's the nifty gadget we were thinking of buying when I worked at Ch. 61 in Cleveland.

I think many of these things would come out in early April. Go figure.
Joe

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5125780462773187994&q=retroencabulator

Retroencabulator! It's got a new lunar wane shaft!

when I said they don't make em like they used to, I mean hoaxes like that one

Rane Pseudoacoustic Infector...

Rane- if you use any of their products you quickly see that those guys have a great sense of humor. Nobody else makes reading their product manuals (for their real products) and application notes actually fun. So it's no surprise that they dreamed something like that up as an April fools joke.

-Hal

Wonderful stuff!

I remember a similar fake data sheet for the "WOM" back in the late 1970s. It didn't have the graph of "pins remaining" vs. "number of insertiions" though -- Great idea!

Yes, but does it have LRF support?

(little rubber feet)

Any idea what the hydrogen deficiency rating of that 606 is?

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Having a double-sucked vacuum, probably pretty deficient..

That one looks like it might be use in electric toilet.
It looks like it has built in plunger. It has urinated tungsten filament. I hold 8.8 gallons. To prevent splattery signals a large leak is recommended

Taking 19.2" as the standard cubit, this thing would be
20.6592" long and
12.3456" Diameter.
I haven't checked the gallons.
~Peter

That would make the "606" even bigger than the 2000T, a REAL Eimac tube of the period...
http://frank.yueksel.org/tubes/sheets/088/2/2000T.pdf