Greg, I guess you tried disconnecting the power and then reconnecting it. Sometimes a power interruption will cause an old clock to run backwards until it is stopped and restarted.
About Time Machines: Does anyone remember the two Twilight Zone episodes involving going back in time? One involved the use of a radio in a retirement home where a man claimed he was receiving old radio programs on an old floor cabinet radio. The other episode featured a man who watched children playing Kick the Can. In both cases, the believers recovered their youth and gained a bit of wisdom about seizing opportunities. The scene in the movie Cocoon with the old people escaping the nursing home reminded me of the similar tactics used in the Twilight Zone's Kick the Can episode.
When we were kids, my brother and I would listen to our AM transistor radios late into the night during the Summer. Catching high powered stations in distant cities seemed to us like we were magically cheating the physical bonds that held us in Atlanta. We went through a lot of batteries when we fell asleep with the radios on. After several hours of listening to Top 40 hits on WLS and WOWO (then owned by Westinghouse), I would generally lose consciousness during a program of theater organ music and verse on WLW in Cincinnati (500,000 watts) titled Moon River. The announcer would say, "And now, Moon River" and the program would begin. WLW was owned by radio and appliance manufacturer Powell Crosley, Jr. who started the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation. In the 1960s, Crosley assumed the name of its parent company Avco or Aviation Corporation which we know bought both Bendix and Crosley for their products, mostly radio related, that would help in aviation and sold off the rest. Thus time travel and virtual travel by radio come back to appliance manufacturers which is near the center of the universe for many of us.
