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  • Re: Found some old code...

    From tenser@21:1/188 to xqtr on Sun May 12 08:39:47 2019
    On 04 May 2019, xqtr said the following...

    I've heard this argument many times in the amateur radio
    community and it is, frankly, kind of silly. Knowing Morse
    code doesn't mean you actually know more about how radios

    Its not about using morse code, as it is to know from where we've
    started, knowing also the past and being respectful on what we have
    today. Not just in communications but in many sort of things. :)

    Ah, so homage to history? That's certainly important, though
    I think sometimes we take it too far. Here in the US, in amateur
    radio, one finds all these crusty old dudes tearing down the
    newer hams over silly things: "Well, _I_ had to take a 20 WPM
    code test to get MY extra license, but you're No-Code, so your
    license doesn't mean as much as mine...." Stuff like that. It's
    silly.

    It was a metaphoric example ? if i am saying it right... not an actual fact :) it seems you know a lot about :)

    Oh I see what you mean now; not specifically the 8086 in
    space, just old&slow.

    For all the rest you said... i have to understand them first!

    Ha! :-) Sorry about that.

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  • From xqtr@21:1/111 to tenser on Sun May 12 17:55:35 2019
    Ah, so homage to history? That's certainly important, though
    I think sometimes we take it too far. Here in the US, in amateur
    yep... a balance is sure needed. But i think right now, we are off-balanced by scraping all the "old-stuff". The son of a good friend is studying computer science in a local university, he is in his second half of the first year, and when i asked him what a byte/bit is, he couldn't answer. So i think some
    things have got off hand.

    radio, one finds all these crusty old dudes tearing down the
    newer hams over silly things: "Well, _I_ had to take a 20 WPM
    code test to get MY extra license, but you're No-Code, so your
    license doesn't mean as much as mine...." Stuff like that. It's
    silly.

    There always be guys like that. But looking a glimpse into the past, its never wrong ;)

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