The turbo encabulator
Wed, Jan 6 2010 10:27 PM
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Old stuff, but fun ... a whole line of technobabble that came out of a paper written in the June, 1944, edition of the IEE's Student's Quarterly Journal (... and yes, it really is "IEE" ... the Institution of Electrical Engineers in the UK): "The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry"
A GE datasheet for the turboencabulator.
From Chrysler in 1988 or so, a brief turbo encabulator description, followed by a wonderful repair training
(Dodge did a later version with background physical humor).
A Rockwell version included some of the original references to "the Peruvian Academy of Scatological Sciences", but it hangs sometimes)
And then the later "retro encabulator" in a Rockwell marketing film:
And even later, the Sun Microsystems "Heisenburg Compensator"
For a typically authoritative and peer-reviewed explanation (and many more great links), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator
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