Stone age? (was: George Morrow died Wed May 7th 2003

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sun May 11 20:29:00 2003

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Tony Duell wrote:

> Assuming you're back in the Stone Age, a crystal receiver is proably not
> the best thing to build. You need to consider the transmitter as well,
> and a crystal set is only really useful if you have a modulated
> transmitter.

Ya know, maybe I'm just pessimistic, but if we suddenly got plunged back
into the stone age, I think we'd be so occupied trying to find some edible
food and fending off the bands of raving marauders and packs of wild
animals that we wouldn't have much time for radio entertainment.

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