[73007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Aug 5 13:59:16 2004
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:58:25 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <411237B9.968CA2B2@greendragon.com> from "William Allen Simpson" at Aug 05, 2004 09:36:22 AM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
>
>
> > so ... mark lottor's your-machine-room-is-melting thermo+modem circa 1990
> > is what? prior art?
>
> Or the first project that I was senior systems analyst, back in 1979,
> all published and everything -- remote sensing in farmers' fields via
> satellite and X.25. (Messages contained type=value tuples, not XML.)
I used to work on North Electric Paracode on a pipeline control
system. It sent six bits, with 2 of the 5 spaces as longer to
count decimal:
1 12
2 13
3 14
4 15
....
9 35
0 45
It generated the longer pauses with copper-cored -48v telco relays
that hung in a little longer.
There were relay-based A-D converters to read meter pressures.
And shift registers to sample&hold meter counts.
The acceptance test was in Galion OH on the day President Kennedy
said:
Good evening my fellow citizens:
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest
surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island
of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has
established the fact that a series of offensive missile
sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The
purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide
a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.
Does that count as prior art?
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