Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!stephany.WBST@XEROX.ARPA From: stephany.WBST@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: "hams" vs. "hackers" -- vote request Message-ID: <12457@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 15:56:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12457 Posted: Tue Aug 14 15:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:45:01 EDT Lines: 15 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