Re: The Cost of Relativity

From: Double-A (double-a_at_hush.com)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: 17 Jul 2004 19:07:35 -0700

"Tom Potter" <tdp@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<2lt0rjFgf3viU10@uni-berlin.de>...
> "Double-A" <double-a@hush.com> wrote in message
> news:79094630.0407161600.3b22de70@posting.google.com...
> > "Tom Potter" <tdp@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:<2lpt9vFfda5jU3@uni-berlin.de>...
> > [snip]
> >
> > > I used one of the first ck-722's point contact transistors
> > > to make an electronic bug for the president of the bendix Coporation,
> > > and I sold for Hewlett-Packard, Fairchild and Texas Instruments,
> > > and was privy their progress.
> >
> >
> > An electronic bug?
> >
> > So who was the president of Bendix planning on bugging?
> >
> > The boardrooms of Hewlett-Packard, Fairchild and Texas Instruments???
> >
> > Did you therefore also assist in planting the bugs?
> >
> > "I will go out with my integrity intact." - Tom Potter
> >
> > Double-A
>
> Hopefully Double-A will explain why he perceives
> that automating the sending of Morse Code,
> compromises one's "integrity".
>
> As knowledgeable folks know,
> a "bug" is a device that Ham Radio Operators
> use for automating the sending of dots and dashes.
>
> The first "bugs" were electro-mechanical,
> and depended upon a mechanically vibrating reed
> to send a sequence of evenly spaced dots.
>
> The "bug" I built was one of the first transistorized "bugs".
>
> Of course, many people are ignorant about "bugs",
> and about how semiconductors evolved,
> and about the design and construction of the GPS system,
> because they have had no first hand experience,
> and have to rely on what they are conditioned to
> by media, government and educational institutions.

Morse code? Very quaint.

I guess it still gets used.

My question is WHY!

Baudot code has been around since 1870.

ASCII has been around for years.

And we do have voice wireless now!
 
If you were going to automate code transmission, why would you want to
use Morse Code???

Unless of course it's just still the best way to telegraph ahead to
the next stationmaster when a run away steam engine is barreling down
the track, or train robbers have been spotted in the area, or for
letting everyone know that the Titanic is sinking!

Double-A