On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:05:13PM -0700, David Morris wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > > I'd love to see you trapped in a basement after an earthquake with > > > only a stick trying to remember how to tap S-O-S. > > > > That's easy. Three shorts and three longs, repeat until the water covers your > > shoes. > > As was said ... who can remember .... > three dots, three dashes *AND* three dots ... pause and repeat There was a great demonstration on a morning TV show a few months ago where they had two amateur radio operators racing against two people using a cell phone to send SMS messages, to see who could send a message faster from one person to another. The cell phone texters could use all of the standard text message abbrevations with the T9 input methods; and they had the advantage of using a cell phone keyboard with 12 buttons versus the radio operator's paddles. Guess who won? The morse code operators, of course, by a wide margin. Some times the old fashioned technology is the best. :-) - Ted (who is still using Emacs, not some fancy/shmancy WYSIWYG GUI tool to compose this message. :-) P.S. And I sometimes still use /bin/ed (which yes, will work on a teleprinter, to edit system files in single user mode; what's wrong with teleprinters anyway? I get most of my most productive work done using an xterm, which is really nothing more than a glass tty.... :-) _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf