Re: The Cost of Relativity

From: Tom Potter (tdp_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:41:27 +0800

"Double-A" <double-a@hush.com> wrote in message
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> jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com wrote in message
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> > In sci.physics Double-A <double-a@hush.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > Oh ***, I hope none of the morse forever crowd reads this post.
> >
> > In Potter's defense (oh *** again, am I really defending that spewing
> > crackpot?), at that time morse was still heavily used by lots of people.
> >
> > It is only in the past few years that morse was finally abandoned by the
> > maritime services and in the past couple that it has been for the most
> > part abandonded as a regulatory requirement for an amateur license by
> > some governments.
> >
> > Morse is still used a lot in the amateur service, just like people still
> > shoot black powder guns, use sailboats, ride horses, etc.
>
> Hmmm... Then maybe I shouldn't throw out that old Western Union key I
> have stashed away somewhere.
>
> I still think that Potter was more than likely involved in industrial
> espionage, however. He realized he had said a little too much, came
> up with this obscure definition of "bug", and tried to back pedal.
>
> Bendix, best known for their clothes washers and brake shoes, must
> have been trying at one time to branch out into electronics, because I
> came across an old television one time that had the Bendix name on it.
>
> Who knows what information they were seeking to gather from their
> electronics competitors.
>
> Potter knows, but he ain't talkin'.

Bendix was the most progressive and dynamic and profitable
industrial company in the world, when I worked there.

Unfortunately, a later president of Bendix named Agee
shacked up with a Harvard grad named Cunningham,
and destroyed the company.
(Several years after I left.)

Bendix manufactured many kinds of products,
including computers, and they operated research labs
that performed extremely high tech research on
space, weapon systems, RADAR, medical devices, etc.

As I posted before in the news groups,
I used one of the first batch of CK-722
point contact transistors to make a "BUG" for
*** automating the sending of code.*** 

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