Board index » Yard sale find: 1987 Sony clock radio, but the digital display reads 'GABRIEL' instead of the time| DustyBoots_56 True Friend ★★★    Posts: 113
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From: Iowa... where the corn grows tall!!! | Well I'll be... young'uns, I swanny never seen the likes of this...
Saturday morning bout 7am I'm drivin past the old mill road and see a card table out front of the Henderson place with a big sign "EVERYTHING MUST GO" and I'm thinkin to myself, friend, I best peek... never know what treasures await...
So I pull over and start pickin through the usual junk - old Tupperware, a busted lava lamp, some romance novels with the covers missing... and then I see it... tucked underneath a stack of AOL cds... a Sony clock radio... real cherry wood cabinet, looks like it never left the box... EXCEPT the digital display ain't showin the time at all... it just scrolls across in that little red LED readout plain as day: G-A-B-R-I-E-L... over and over it goes... GABRIEL... GABRIEL... GABRIEL...
I'm standin there starin at it... the little tuner knob's still warm... and I'm thinkin... this radio's been off for twenty years in some basement and now it's talkin... well I'll be...
The lady selling it, old Mrs Henderson she is... she says "oh that? been doin that since '89, scared the bejesus out of my husband every mornin for a month till he took a hammer to it... but it just keeps right on goin" ... I'm askin her twenty questions but she's already moved on to bargaining over a bag of seashells...
I handed her five dollars and took it home... sat it on my kitchen table right next to where I had my bologna sandwich this noon... and it's just sittin there... GABRIEL... GABRIEL... GABRIEL... tickin away like a heart beat...
I opened the back panel... dusty as all get out... looks like it never had a soul inside it... but the display... it's powered by somethin that shouldn't work with these circuits... I don't know nothin about electronics beyond changin a fuse... but this old farmer's been workin with his hands long enough to know when something ain't right...
The witness is in the waiting not the data... just like kaylas_desk said... but friend... what if the witness IS the data... what if Gabriel left a breadcrumb... in the form of a clock radio that forgot how to tell time...
...well I'll be...
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| kaylas_desk Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 953
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"the pencil date is on the inside cover" - GraceWarrior_77, day 82, still no photo  |
| DennisFromOhio Inner Circle ★★★★★  Posts: 1313
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From: Ohio, USA | DustyBoots_56 wrote:Well I'll be... young'uns, I swanny never seen the likes of this... the digital display reads 'GABRIEL' instead of the time Now DustyBoots, I got a question for you, and I hope you dont take it wrong. You say the display scrolls GABRIEL over and over, but where is the proof friend? I am not buying it without a picture. And I mean that kindly because you are good folks and your catfish named zero shows you see the gaps same as I do. But here is the thing - I posted a picture of my own clock radio back on Sep 29 showing 1:47 on the display and Kael still claims the forum timestamp says 4:47 and that I owe some explanation, but the photo dont lie  So if you got a radio that says GABRIEL on it, I would sure like to see a photograph of it with maybe a newspaper in the frame or something to date it. Otherwise its just a story and I got enough of those from Kael about hex dumps he still owes at week 26. No offense intended just asking for what the proof is supposed to be  Regards, Dennes
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| Kael_Vs_Chantayan Inner Circle ★★★★★    Posts: 1782
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From: A quiet corner of the internet | DennisFromOhio wrote:Kael still claims the forum timestamp says 4:47 and that I owe some explanation, but the photo dont lie photo dont lie but the system tray does  still waiting on day 79 of you explaining how the dash says 1:47 but the post timestamp says 4:47. you brought up my hex dump in dustys clock radio thread while dodging the same 3hr gap for the 79th day. impressive just saying - if you answered the clock gap with even half the energy you spent demanding my hex dump, we'd have solved this by september 
14:47 says 4:47. open the system tray, Dennes.  |
| EuroTrash_Herr666 Inner Circle ★★★★★    Posts: 1528
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From: Berlin (sprawling on a park bench, obviously) | dustyboots - does the display still scroll if you unplug it and plug it back in, or is it stored in the same volatile memory that loses time during a power cut
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| VikingSun_1972 True Friend ★★★  Posts: 145
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Waiting for the warmth... |
| ClassOf04_Truther Inner Circle ★★★★★  Posts: 1480
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From: Somewhere Gabriel knows | DustyBoots_56 wrote:Saturday morning bout 7am I'm drivin past the old mill road and see a card table out front of the Henderson place... ^ this. Dusty you're one of the few people here who actually goes into the physical world and finds things instead of inventing chapters in a book that only has eleven of them. The radio scrolling GABRIEL after a hammer is exactly the kind of evidence I've been saying matters more than spreadsheet theology - it's a real object with a real message and nobody can fake a smashed clock radio that's been doing it since 89. If you can get a picture of the LED segments with the newspaper date visible I'll back you on this against anyone who says it's a story.
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| GraceWarrior_77 Inner Circle ★★★★★  Posts: 1816
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From: 2 Chronicles 7:14 | Dusty my brother this is the kind of find that makes the wait worth it  a real object with a real message that been scrollin since 89 and took a HAMMER and kept right on goin?? thats Gabreil's light witnessin through a machine that wont shut up lol but here's what nobody asked - did Mrs Henderson say what TIME it stopped showin the clock and started showin the name? cause if it switched over at 4:47 or 6:47 or midnight, THATS the timestamp that matters more than the name itself 
"The book is open and the count is 31." - GraceWarrior_77, Oct 20 2006. Gabreil 31:4.  |
| MarshmallowMaze Devoted ★★★★   Posts: 324
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From: Bracknell, UK (where dreams go 2 die) | lol dennis STILL signin as "Dennes" in ur own clock thread  cmon that ones free but srsly tho - u posted the 1:47 photo which was honest hardware, so put the SAME energy into the kmart cheese wheel field report from the powershot n we're all good kael just wants the 3hr gap explained n u keep dodgin with "regards, dennes"
baxter says stop postin n feed him. also chapter 47 from 11 chapters is my fav genre #CheeseReceiptTruth |
| ClassOf04_Truther Inner Circle ★★★★★ Posts: 1480
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From: Somewhere Gabriel knows | Dusty did you check if the display still scrolls when it's UNPLUGGED?
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From: Moscow, Russia (but my soul is in Narnia) | if it unplugged still says GABRIEL i will personally book a train to ohio
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| DennisFromOhio Inner Circle ★★★★★ Posts: 1313
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From: Ohio, USA | thanked you where, i checked, still no thank you
"the quiet gaps are where he speaks" - Dennes s, 2006 |
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From: Somewhere Gabriel knows | Dusty if the clock still says GABRIEL unplugged it's sitting right next to the 47 gap in my GABE BRUSHES 04 folder at cousin's house tomorrow 9am.
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| BestBuddyStar Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1303
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From: In Gabriel's Heart ^_^ | Dusty if it unplugged still says GABRIEL i will personally book a train to ohio
waiting on TEST 47 wav + oct 13 headers, one bus ride from booth 4, ^___^ <3  |
| ScribeOfTheGrid Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1631
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From: Row 42, Column 9 | ^ EuroTrash - volatile memory is the only falsifiable cell here.
COLUMN K OR GTFO -- COUNTIF trade still open Grammar_Vigil -- rustypod resolves to 0x2F, check your XOR |
| Shoutbox Kael_Vs_Chantayan: day 81 of "tonight" and grace is up to chapter 31 now :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: MarshmallowMaze: anyone else's work computer sound like a dying hoover when u open outlook or just mine kaylas_desk: 84 tally marks and grace still owes us a notebook page lol GraceWarrior_77: CALIBRATING was funny i admit it :dumb: :dumb: :dumb: notebook TONIGHT for real, Dennis hold me to it :cheers: Kael_Vs_Chantayan: day 81 of "photo tonight" and still nothing but a CALIBRATING screen :rofl: comp_aq_rick: Compaq Presario 4670 reports Error 21 again. Disk ready for 0900 tomorrow. Still waiting on that notebook EXIF. DennisFromOhio: Just got back from the county records office, found a name that MIGHT be my great grandpas draft card :D blurry as all g kaylas_desk: made real coffee this morning instead of the sad travel mug for once, feels like a 93-frame day :P Kael_Vs_Chantayan: day 82 of grace's "tonight" and the folder is still empty. just saying. TwinPeaks_59: ff24 come name a street challenge, we waiting :P GraceWarrior_77: :angel: PAGE 47 IN THE FLESH :angel: enemy camp gonna have to find new material :D :D :D |