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From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sat Nov 18 11:51:48 2000

blstuart_at_bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> In message <20001117010258.A4275_at_loomcom.com>, Seth writes:

> >Next Up: Tin-Can-and-Two-Strings-Net, dammit! BWAHAHAHA!
>
> Don't laugh. I knew a guy in college who I later ran into
> in grad school. He was doing some protocol R&D with funding
> from IBM. In order to demonstrate how robust the protocols
> were, he set up tin cans and string as the transmission medium.

We have an engineer here in Santa Barbara with a perverted sense of humor;
he took two Kenwood SlowScan TV units (they transfer pictures at audio
frequencies usually transmitted on the vhf and higher amateur bands) and
connected them to each other via two tin cans and a string. The pictures
came through just fine :).
Received on Sat Nov 18 2000 - 11:51:48 GMT