Somewhere back in the 80's [or so, memory fails me these days], I got
several of the IEEE group Proceedings, among which were Info Theory and
Vehicular Technology [my employer was doing a lot of the latter which
involved me in a lot of the former]. I read one paper, from Japan I
think, about this idea of having very low power radio sites that
"portable" phones could talk to, and a computer control system to manage
the hand-off to other sites as the caller moved.
I said to my cube-mate, "Have you seen this?", and he said, "Yes, what
do you think about it?" I replied, "That'll never work, and besides,
who would want to carry one of those phone bags around with them
everywhere?"
That's my answer to Jim's question.
I also read about this US DoD program to put multiple satellites in
orbit to allow ground devices to determine their position. I figured,
"DoD? This will be a huge boondoggle." LORAN-C is now defunct.
Being in the comm/computer/defense biz, my wife asked me if we wanted to
sign up for this thing called an Automated Teller Machine card at Wells
Fargo. I suggested we not bother, just one more card, "Believe me, this
isn't going to catch on, who wants a machine giving them their own money?"
The only time I've been an early adopter is with Elecraft [K3 #642], and
not even then all the time [K2 #4398]. And "computing in a cloud"
really sounds like Star Wars although my Kindle Fire at least thinks it
has it's own cloud.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013
- www.cqp.org
On 6/21/2013 4:05 PM, Jim Lowman wrote:
I have no idea what caused the change.
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