Subject: Re: the 4-18 episode!!
From: broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
Date: 1991-04-24, 06:30
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <63C6988020207F52@WVNVMS.WVNET.EDU> UN040377@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU writes:
> >Foreknowledge or not, how do you specify a certain date by pressing 2 
> >buttons?  Say the first press is for the month, and the second press is
> >for the day, you'd need a lot more buttons to be able to enter *any* date.

Each button had two symbols; an astrological sign (ignoring the paw print
for the moment) and a phase of the moon.  Since the moon cycles every 29
days, which is roughly the span of a zodiac sign, it's sort of workable;
you push the sign you were born under, followed by the phase of the moon
at the time of your birth.  It's only accurate to within a few days, and it
only works for certain zodiac signs, but remember that its only purpose is
to serve as a combination lock.  One could easily construct a lock with only
the numbers 1 through 7 on it; it's only a convention that locks have dials
with 10 (or 100) positions on them.

-- Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept Mail: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu OR broehl@sunee.UWaterloo.ca BangPath: {allegra,decvax,utzoo,clyde}!watmath!sunee!broehl Voice: (519) 885-1211 x 2607 [work]