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		sebzim4500 on April 1, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001... In the UK we called it ticket tape and it was terrible. The devices barely worked and they cause a bunch of friction so you end up calculating a value of 'g' that's off by like 30%.

timthorn on April 1, 2025 [–]

I think officially, we called it ticker tape, as in stock ticker - it was originally used to record stock prices transmit by telegraph.

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