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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Technical misunderstanding (true story)
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Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 19:04:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  6 19:04:17 1984
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Organization: NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Canada
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At one time Toronto used 25 Hz electrical supply, or 25 cycles per second
as they said it in those days.  It was then converted to the usual 60.
(See referenced article in net.misc).

Not only did all electronic appliances have to be converted, but so did
many electric motors in things like refrigerators.  Consequently technicians
had to visit every household.  One of them was told by a housewife to
"leave the extra 35 cycles in the milk chute, and my husband will install
them when he comes home"!

Posted by Mark Brader
Information from yesterday's Toronto Star