Disk archival techniques

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 6:06 PM


>> >From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at randy482.com>
>> >In the 1940's how many people were able to build a radio reciever with 
>> >what
>> >they found in the battle field (razor blade, safety pin, knife, wire,
>> >headset), how many could today?  The same applies to computer 
>> >technology.
>   ^^^^^^^
> what kinds of wars litter the battlefields with spare headsets?
>
> On Tue, 17 May 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
>> Hi
>>  I could. Junk today has more useable parts than the
>> junk they had then. Making a AM radio is quite easy today.
>> Dwight
>
> You are NOT typical of current society (that is a compliment, not an
> insult)
>
> How many people saw that Nova? PBS session where they handed ENGINEERING
> undergrads a battery a bulb and a handful of wires?  Many of the students
> were adament that it was impossible to light the bulb without a socket.
> Many of them made a dead short across the battery, and then touched one of
> the bulb contacts to that. etc.

Every battlefield since WWI has had "spare headsets" laying around, usually 
from damaged radios.

When a field radio was damaged in a firefight it was abandoned, carrying 
around a dead radio while bullets are flying doesn't make any sense.  Later 
it was extremely common for soldiers with the right knowledge to pick up the 
headset and build AM receivers, with spares they passed them on to buddies 
to use.  WWII field radios to too bulky for the average GI to carry around 
compared to just enough material to make a simple AM receiver.

For the record they were not used for tactical use just to listen to music 
etc while sitting in foxholes.


Randy
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