[GreenKeys] Bit rate question

Sam Etler etler at cs.wisc.edu
Thu Sep 15 01:30:42 EDT 2011


Thank you. This clears up everything. Now I just need to get my cat to agree
to help me with this.

sam

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:57 PM, tony j. podrasky
<tony.podrasky at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Sam;
>
> I think Albert Einstein might be of some help here:
>
> Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire
> telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat.  You pull his tail in New
> York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.  Do you understand this?
> And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
> receive them there.  The only difference is that there is no cat."
>
> regards,
> tony
>
>
> Sam Etler wrote:
>
>>
>> Are there any recommended reading materials that cover good basics of
>> telegraphy? I've come across a number of books from the 1800s and early
>> 1900s but if anyone has some specific references they recommend I'd love
>> to
>> hear it.
>>
>> sam
>>
>>
> --
> Tony J. Podrasky | Back in my day we didn't have virtual reality or
>                 | video games. If an axe-wielding one-eyed razorback
>                 | barbarian warrior was chasing after you, you just
>                 | had to hope you could outrun him.
>


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