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From: stephany.WBST@XEROX.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: "hams" vs. "hackers" -- vote request
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 15:56:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 15:56:00 1984
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Protocols, error-free communications, and message routing have been done
for years by people on CW and phone.  There is no fundamental difference
in digitalizing it, you are only letting machines do the work of people.

Error free messages in analog are common: it consists of a guy saying
"did you get that ?" or "repeat back".   There is nothing fundamentally
different between anaog and digital  except a machine is doing it
instead of a person, all the methods are the same and have not changed
in decades.  I also do not understand how CW is different from digital,
except  it is slower and uses a different code and a machine is used.
On the other hand we uses simple machines to send and receive code: a
key and earphones, which are defined as machines.  Only the complexity
of the machines has changed, the principles are the same.

					Joe N2XS