> Sorry to hear about that Jinx.

The daft thing is that they took the old one away to put back
in the ship. ?????? Maybe it plugs up a hole. I have one in
mind

It is a little bewildering as I had about 20 hours programming
time available, and it's not the toughest job as there are previous
jobs to build on, so there was every possibility that the matter
could have been settled before departure tomorrow

> Maybe they'll just go for a bunch of standard kitchen clocks
> afixed to the walls?

No chance of that. All "local time" remotes are controlled from
the bridge But I'll be interested to see what they can find that's
better than what I had on offer, both in terms of performance
and cost. Even some cursory investigation has revealed that
US$3000 is a starting point, and for that they'd need to replace
the clocks as well, which they don't need to. Sigh. People are
funny aren't they ?

The repair bill mostly covered relating the manual to the circuits
and verifying that the machine was uneconomic to repair, so I'm
fairly happy. A little disappointed but more than enough other things
to be getting on with. Spent nothing on parts. Get them on the way
back, don't worry ;-)

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