JK Flip Flops

[Henry Musikar]

Briefly awake from a cough, so I'll be brief.

Great stuff, as always, Robin.  I'd forgotten about the J-K Sale, but the
geek side of me drools if someone says, however quietly, "JK."

JK, or "J-K" flip flops aren't sandals, but rather the most elementary of
digital components, and would have been available, perhaps on sale, in
Silicon Valley, CA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_(electronics)#JK_flip-flop 
"The JK flip-flop is therefore a universal flip-flop, because it can be
configured to work as an SR flip-flop, a D flip-flop, or a T flip-flop."

Universal flip flop!

Henry Musikar
Sr. IT Consultant
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/  

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Landseadel

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. . . in particular that line about "undecipherable FSM's, YAF's,  
VDC's" and then reflect on the fictional name on the previous page of  
"J.-K. Sale."  Pynchon's only literary collaboration was with  
Kirkpatrick Sale for the play "Mistral Island" back in those giddy  
school days° at Cornell, somewhere around the time Oedipa was in  
college.

http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/paper_gibbs.html

Kirkpatrick Sale has written on the subject of the SDS:

http://www.amazon.com/SDS-development-Students-Democratic-Society/dp/0394478
894 

. . . and " has been described as "a leader of the Neo-Luddites" and  
"the theoretician for a new secessionist movement." [Wiki] Here are  
two recent examples of Kirkpatrick Sale's writings:

http://www.counterpunch.org/sale02222005.html 
http://www.counterpunch.org/sale02032009.html 

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