Gizmo Quiz # 71

[defanjos]

Here it is:
Quiz [riwedding.com]

What is it?
No url needed to win

[Webdoc]

Is it the inner lid and ring seal to a mason or bell jar? Ya know for canning food?

[defanjos]

No food involved at all

[4crests]

Ain't nothin more important to me than my Canned Apricots!

[fathom]

No cosmetic use... its purpose is a lot more important than...

wouldn't that depend on just how ugly you are at 5am?

[4crests]

except maybe the Prunes

[oilman]

ok - 64 posts and no closer than when we started really - need another clue dude :)

[ScottM]

Yes, yes...clue!

Unless it is a trampoline for ants...

[defanjos]

So, the clues so far did not help?
Clues so far:
Storage device
analog

It will be another major one coming very shortly

[4crests]

Optical Storage Device?

[fathom]

Does that happen to be the bottom side?

[defanjos]

>Optical Storage Device?
In a way, yes, but not what I am looking for.

It is "yes", because it is a storage device and you can see what is stored.

[fathom]

insert for a 45 speed recorder

[defanjos]

>Does that happen to be the bottom side?
No

[oilman]

It's a Rosetta Disk
[rosettaproject.org...]

[edited by: oilman at 9:23 pm (utc) on Feb. 22, 2003]

[defanjos]

Major Clue:
Languages of the world

[4crests]

An item that can store a 3-d picture within it?

[oilman]

a standard micro-etched data disk
by Norsam Technologies

[fathom]

sure looks the same to me!

[defanjos]

Congrats Oilman, you got it :)

More info here:
[rosettaproject.org...]
and here
[rosettaproject.org...]

[oilman]

:) - about time - I haven't gotten a quiz in ages - hehe

I finally just threw all analog storage device into google and bam! I have to mention that all the time I was mumbling under my breath "Analog storage? jeez - could be more vague? I mean, paper is an analog storage device, vinyl record..." and so on.

Good quiz defanjos.

[GodLikeLotus]

Is it a a standard micro-etched data disk
by Norsam Technologies

[defanjos]

>Good quiz defanjos.
Thanks

GodLikeLotus,
It has been solved already.

[Brett_Tabke]

alright - fess up Oil - How'd ya find it?

[oilman]

[google.com...]

was the search then (here comes the Opera plug...) ctrl-shift-click open every listing and start flipping through :)

[Brett_Tabke]

Thanks. Ya, the power of control-shift-click wins again...

[tbear]

What an excellent quiz, defanjos, and what amazingly ingenious postings..... He, he, he, muchas gracias :)
Well done Oilman, what a master!

[hakre]

just passed this gizmo. hmm. ****. was too tired to make it. maybe next time.

[Macguru]

OOps! Here is updated Official Gizmo Quiz Scoreboard [vif.com].

Sorry guys, things got busy here. :)

Thanks for the great game King defanjos ( made it's way to the library! ) and congrats to oilman!