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 Posted: Thu May 8th, 2008 02:30 pm
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YARGH

 

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 Foster wrote: Honestly though, if I am not mistaken, computers are controlled by quartz crystals already.

Digital chips and components depend on oscillators to synchronize their clock speed.

These oscillators function on the same principals as a quartz watch.


If this is true, then it definitely answers my question.  I had no idea that computers (the current technology, anyway) needed to use oscillators.