| Page 10 of 11 [159 Posts] | Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, ..., 8, 9, 10, 11 Next |
| Author | Message | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erwo the Elder |
Tried:
Then of course locked out!  Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:10 am |
||||
 |
|||||
| obrienk |
i tried
no dice Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:13 am |
||||
|
|||||
| crovax1234 |
Tried
No luck. Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:24 pm |
||||
|
|||||
| EvilGenius |
No card for me but did anyone try Otis Boykin? Or William Thomson? Perhaps Alexander Graham Bell or Antonio Meucci? Von's hint certainly points at Ohm though . . .
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:00 pm |
||||
|
|||||
| Bendover |
Hey its the story of Joe electron! he was king of his circuit but he used his power in a negative way and met massive resistance, failing to see the light led to a digital revolution where Joe became just one bit of information on the highway of life. The End
Had a thought at work, my story sounded like the Russian Revolution so I tried Nicholas Romanov on a whim Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:37 am |
||||
|
|||||
| doublecross |
My money is on it being someone with nothing to do with circuits or even physics. I'm sure the colour coding of the resistors is the key.
Maybe it's a little story (as the question suggests) - they acquired power (battery), had inspiration (light), met resistance (six times - although I can't explain the colours at the moment) ... Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:31 am |
||||
|
|||||
| Guin |
well i can confirm it isnt:
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:49 am |
||||
|
|||||
| Bendover |
Maybe it isn't so much the functional circuts as so much it might be a person who by his work in the field either at a basic level of beginning research spanned the gamut from analog to digital. Or it might be one of the fathers of the computer from the early days ENIAC springs to mind
It isn't :Alan Turing one of the fathers of the computer or Henry Ford (tried for the 12 volts a usual car voltage) Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:34 am |
||||
|
|||||
| thereverendeg |
Not a "standard" but there are a few cards with these. I've heard theres one on Shuffled though I don't have it so I can't confirm that one. However, I do have Sightseeing, The Angel's Key, Polar, Syzygy Cube, Ciphers of History, and Eternally Grateful which all have these lines. However, I can't see a line on my copy of Circuitous. Strange? Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:26 pm |
||||
|
|||||
| arieh |
I note a siver line, beginning in the border but crossing the main card. Is this a standard feature of Silvers (I don't have enough to know)?
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:33 pm |
||||
|
|||||
| hendo77 |
Von's Hint:
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:18 am |
||||
|
|||||
| thereverendeg |
another idea
I was thinking because of the switches and speaker it might have something to do with a telegraph or some such thing. I don't know where the logic gates would come in here, though. Maybe...
Some other interesting tidbits... I think it also might be relavent to note that there are two circuits on this card, one of which contains logic gates and the other of which does not. The one which doesn't contain any gates has the entire circuit shown, and the one containing the gates is an entirely independent circuit from the one we have the entire view of. Actually, because we can't see the connections which are outside the card the second (logic) circuit could actually be four different circuits. It might also be relavent to note that the notation used for the resistors implies either German or UK notation (looking at the speaker symbol implies UK rather than German, which has a bold line through the rectangular part of the symbol traditionally), but the logic circuits correspond with American (MIL/ANSI) symbols. Most of this info on regional notation I'm basing off of: http://www.nutsvolts.com/PDF_Files/circuit.pdf Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:22 pm |
||||
|
|||||
| makomk |
Hmmm... that looks like a fairly good selection of circuit diagram symbols there. Maybe something to do with the inventor of the symbols?</long-shot>
The only thing that's obvious is that this makes no sense as an actual circuit. Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:47 am |
||||
|
|||||
| thereverendeg |
Well
The solve page asks for the first name only, so I'm pretty sure it's a person.
Tried the following without success:
So I guess it's none of them. Maybe...
Meh... too many people. Then again it may be some cryptic story encoded using circuit components, and we are supposed to name the main character. Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:55 am |
||||
|
|||||
| Skizz |
Actually, thinking about it, the scientists mentioned above are all related to the development of electrical circuits, so the answer could be:
Skizz Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:45 am |
||||
|
|||||
| Page 10 of 11 [159 Posts] | Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, ..., 8, 9, 10, 11 Next |
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group