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US Military Dead during Iraq War 1866
K Williams the Oh, come on...it's "traditional", folks... As in "oompah-loompah, stick it up...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1867
Kelli Halliburton The above is yet more off-the-subject garbage in a failed, pathetic attempt...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 1868
It's all I've had experience with. One pair of VAXen with a pile of spindles on them were running a Semiconductor Fab, they had to work 24x7x365. Failure was simply...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 1869
To be blunt you have no clue what you are talking about and I am somewhat restricted in what I can tell you. I'll put it this way: The system *should* have...
Relay computerswhy so few 1870
Philip Nasadowski The timeframe we're discussing is during the war, not after. Electronic knowledge went up as a result of the war, but it took time to get it altogether...
Keyboard help 101 USB
I have seen keyboards that support PS-2 and USB in a single package. They are supplied with a pbuttive...
Tell the Difference Between These Three Pictures 1872
A reaction which displays a lack of familiarity with normal survey processing back in the days of punched cards. Multipunching was the normal way of dealing with questions...
Tell the Difference Between These Three Pictures 1873
As you are a self-proclaimed expert on data entry, I will be charitable and buttume you have just forgotten that IBM card...
Tell the Difference Between These Three Pictures 1874
Cramps is because there is no movement to relax and flex the muscles. As a typist I would splay my fingers occasionally. This is why I don't understand how people can...
Tell the Difference Between These Three Pictures 1875
I originally had in mind the general example of bank or stock transactions but marketing questionnaires are an even better example because...
Tell the Difference Between These Three Pictures 1876
I expect JMF had something else in mind (and I think I did too). But...
Tell the Difference Between These Three Pictures 1877
snip phone interview things It strikes me with lots of these questionaires that they have no room for what you think are the important messages...
Tell the Difference Between These Three Pictures 1878
tell time I wasn't going to go into that (I was replying to only one point), but since...
Told Ya So... 1879
Steve O'Hara-Smith It may seem that way, but I am not implying them. The negation of...
Told Ya So... 1880
I was giving you the benefit of doubt. Now that all doubt has been removed, maybe we should make it "dumb-butt". "Slanted"? How does quoting a...
Told Ya So... 1881
rpl Uh...if everyone read it first-hand, who am I propogating it to? That's a pitiful little conspiracy...
Told Ya So... 1882
For those of you who still don't understand what editing the truth in order to put a slant on things...
Told Ya So... 1883
Newspaper article != truth, for most cases. According to newspaper! reports, Brazilian police take a liberal view of when to shoot. Ordinary coppers, AFAIK...
Told Ya So... 1884
Which part of what I quoted do you think is untrue? Did the police NOT shoot a guy on the subway? Do you think there is NO "shoot to kill" policy for dealing...
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Data communications over telegraph circuits 1886
This has been mandatory practice in many companies for years. A friend told me about his company's "BRAnch INformation System" (BRAINS), which has to be...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1887
some tab card drift ... common practice in lots of shops (at least in 60s & 70s) was to punch sequence numbers in cols. 73-80 ... dropped & shuffled card decks could be put back in sequence...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1888
Anne & Lynn Wheeler Was there any way a tab machine (the reproducer?) could be set up to punch in incrementing sequence...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1889
In some cases a telegraph circuit was the equivalent of just a wire, albeit with relays and carrier channels and other...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1890
Things evolved over time. Until about 1950 they had a lot of duplexed ground-return single...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1891
Jim Haynes Thanks for the information. Would you know how the Desk-Fax worked? That is, was the fax image converted to their standard Baudot for transmission? Also, when the loss of resolution--or resend...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1892
W.U. did an enormous amount of R&D on fax, none of which ever earned them much and none of which has any applicability to fax as it is used...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1893
Jim Haynes Which is a shame. When modern day fax came out (called "telecopier" then) companies jumped on it. Being able to send a whole document instantly was a major advantage despite the...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1894
That was all they intended it for. A way to get a telegram to-from the nearest WU office. They...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1895
Jim Haynes I presume the image was 'digitized' somehow in that a pulse was sent for dark areas and no pulse sent for light areas. The stylus was activated to make a mark...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1896
I think the fax image was transmitted with gray levels, even if the resolution was not very good. The transmitter used a chopper wheel to generate 2500 Hz. AC from the scanner...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1897
Jim Haynes I found some posts you made to the Telecom archives with Business Week...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1898
Remember that through the 1960s and into the 1970s there was an awful lot of computer time sharing being done with the Teletype Model 33 as the terminal. Of course time sharing is not...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1899
Jim Haynes Interesting point. I sensed my time-sharing systems were locally based in cities. In 1970 there was a small company "Community Computer Corp" that used an...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1900
He was being *kind*! It was actually a lot worse that that. All true. However... none of that was expected to be shared or to interact with any other company in any...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1901
The Internet didn't exist yet. Low cost voice calls were what eliminated the Telegram, and started the decline of TWX-Telex, before TCP-IP was...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1902
Floyd L. Davidson Fax is very useful for things e-mail cannot do, such as to transmit documents. Sophisticated users might have ways to encode a...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1903
In our company, everyone (sophisticated or otherwise) has convenient access to Lexmark multifunction machines (I forget the model # at the moment, and I am typing this from home) which serve...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1904
You can scan documents and send them via email. Where it is commonly done, it is made to be just as...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1905
I don't think that is necessarily true today. Regardless, it is as I said "that...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1906
First, in this discussion we must be clear whether we're discussing pre- or post- divesture AT&T. Pre-divesture "Bell System" is probably a better name since it was one company that generally...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1907
Well, you may want to reconsider. All complex systems have mbuttive failures. You may reduce the impact...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1908
These are valid points, and also apply to "security" and the public frenzy we see unfolding in the wake of a small number of plantings and terror attacks. This is not entirely...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1909
And if many lives depend upon it, or if the consequences are otherwise that serious, then it...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1910
You don't get my point at all. What I say is that I want systems that fail safe. When the 747 computer fails utterly I want a plane that it at least a good glider...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1911
Floyd L. Davidson ... and making sure that happens requires designing basic circuits much differently than most other electronic design practices. To put it in allegorical terms: A naive view...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1912
when we were talking to various of the people about the nsfnet deployments ... we didn't spend a lot of time going into details about telco provisioning issues ... since they really...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1913
a trivial example was one of the first major sites for original payment gateway was a sports oriented operation ... which did some national advertisements on sunday afternoon football. they had a major isp...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1914
there are fail-safe or fail-graceful issues ... how resilliant is the overall environment in the face of failures. supposedly software (& human...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1915
The components themselves have improved too. Where we once had to fight to get to...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1916
about the samme time we were looking at the previous example we were doing ha-cmp and we...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1917
Anne & Lynn Wheeler Sometimes the introduction of modern technology leads to a loss of backup capability and failures become more serious. For instance...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1918
Morten Reistad These are excellent points and many technical people don't understand them. Every computer program should have appropriate (depending on criticality) failure...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1919
Nope. AT&T knew how to use computing for their app, as they should. They had no folklore...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1920
You say "Nope", and then describe exactly the same thing that I did. Understanding computers, and not understanding the *business...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1921
Then you don't understand the difference between understanding computers and understanding using them for a particular use. Applications are not OSes and...
Data communications over telegraph circuits 1922
I don't agree. The Bell System went through three big anbreastrust cases and a slew of little ones, and it was largely the ideology of the Justice...
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