In like Flynn, it just clicked. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 07:27:22 am
content: I don't know how the hell I never realized this before, maybe because I figured it was some aussie saying, but while watching the walkman teardown, after watching eevblog for ages, I just realized in like Flynn is a reference to tron.I don't know how I never realized that before being a massive Tron fan, maybe watching the SD card video with back to the future mentioned in it got my mind thinking in that sort of era but still, I feel ashamed. It's also made eevblog even more awesome lol.I'm just hoping I'm not the only one it took a while for.

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 07:35:21 am
content: It''s a reference to getting in someone's panties so easy it's like you're Errol Flynn. It's much older than Tron lol.EDIT: Well Wilfred beat me too it.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 07:37:14 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on July 17, 2015, 07:34:46 amAh really? I guess that would make more sense for it to be used in daily conversation, I figured it was Tron since it fits in pretty well. Maybe this hasn't even occurred to Dave then.Side note, he mentioned auto reversing cassette players, I was wondering if anyone knows of a video of the head moving. I looked around but couldn't find anything so far.Edit: this video shows it a bit but I mean if there is any of those old style demonstration/promotional videos that would show the whole mechanism.

author: jwm_
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 07:44:20 am
content: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=in+like+Flynn&year_start=1900&year_end=2015&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cin%20like%20Flynn%3B%2Cc0been around since 1940, peaking in 1955It's even a popular enough saying to have its own wikipedia page.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_like_FlynnCertainly not specific to Australia, I have heard it in conversation here in California pretty regularly.John

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 07:48:06 am
content: Quote from: jwm_ on July 17, 2015, 07:44:20 amYeah, I've never heard it before watching eevblog, or anywhere else. Guess it might not be common in my area, or I just haven't been around the right people.

author: jwm_
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 07:53:10 am
content: Quote from: XOIIO on July 17, 2015, 07:48:06 amI like the tron version too, some percentage of the time when I use it, such as after a righteous hack of a gibson, when I say I am in like Flynn I will be refering to tron.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 07:58:39 am
content: Quote from: jwm_ on July 17, 2015, 07:53:10 amJeeze, now I wonder if Flynn's name is perhaps a reference to Errol Flynn. Hmm.That's one thing we'll probably never find out.

author: george graves
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 08:35:19 am
content: Quote from: XOIIO on July 17, 2015, 07:27:22 amI could be wrong, but a noob, just noob'ed himself.It's all good. I had a laugh over it.Reminds me of how a college professor corrected in class that "...for all intensive purposes....", is actually "....for allintentsand purposes...."I also say "Lie-berry" sometimes, not "library"But I'm from California, so it's all good bro-dude-man.

author: kolonelkadat
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 09:37:32 am
content: Quote from: XOIIO on July 17, 2015, 07:37:14 amIve never seen one where the head moved. In my experience the auto reversing ones just have an extra set of read heads that the circuit chooses between. In this way it can read from either side 1 or side 2 of the tape.

author: BradC
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 09:53:57 am
content: Quote from: kolonelkadat on July 17, 2015, 09:37:32 amI've seen both, but the 4 track heads were more common. Also all kinds of awesome for hacking together your homebrew 4 track tape recorder for your bedroom studio. A big step up from overdubbing on the open reel.

author: ivaylo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 18, 2015, 07:28:04 am
content: Hmm, I always thought that they mispronounce "In like Flint" -http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061810/

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 18, 2015, 08:44:12 am
content: AKAI IIRC made the auto reversing tape decks with rotating heads, and had 2 azimuth adjust points so you could get the same response in both directions. They also made one with a small stepper motor in the head that was used with a peak sensing circuit to automatically align the head for the specific tape inserted, so as to get the best response. Worked best for commercial duplicated tapes where the end of the tape had a cut point marked by some low frequency clicks recorded onto the master loop. used to operate the cutter on the high speed duplicator to snip the big roll of tape and then it would use the endless loop of master tape in the cartridge to start the next copy.Those would duplicate a 1 hour tape ( 30 minutes per side) in under 3 minutes, simply by running the speed up to 11, and using video amplifiers to handle the bandwidth, using no bias signal. Then you would splice the tapes into the premade leader only cassettes and use a high speed winder to get the tape inside. Frequency response IIRC was from 50HZ ( to handle the cutter signal) to around 5MHz.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 18, 2015, 10:31:17 am
content: It is indeed Errol FlynnNothing to do with Tron