[GreenKeys] Teletype Tape Winder

Chris Elmquist chrise at pobox.com
Mon Dec 6 09:24:26 EST 2010


On Sunday (12/05/2010 at 05:29PM -0800), tony j. podrasky wrote:
> I took 8 555 timers, tuned them to the music scale, and connected
> it to the reader.
>
> We loaded-up a tape and "read it".
>
> Then, I cut a tape of the theme song of Laurel and Hardy.
>
> We almost wet our pants!!!

Excellent.  However you were probably infringing on several zillion
patents for multi-tonal modem modulation and/or spread spectrum
communication ;-)  Were any guys from Telebit coming after you?
or maybe Hedy Lamarr?

> Tony J. Podrasky | MicroSoft error messages written in Haiku:
>                  |
>                  |              Serious error.
>                  |      All shortcuts have disappeared.
>                  |       Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Hey, there's a great book on that kind of Haiku, 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00007FYIX/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

-- 
Chris Elmquist



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