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

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Sun May 11 23:51:00 2003

It's just a matter of thinning the quiche herds and tracking down some
wild Brie.


On Sun, 11 May 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> 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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M. K. Peirce

Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island

"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
              
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