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Morse Coders Beat SMSers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the wheel-reinvented dept.

dgnicholson writes "Jay Leno did a text off between two text messengers and two Morse coders. The Morse coders handily beat the young whippersnappers with time to spare. It might be a fun phone app to make a Morse code messenger, if you kept your headset in and had an external sender, could be interesting. Perhaps a Morse code Skype device."

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  1. Nokia app lets you key SMSes in Morse Code by mocm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Someone already wrote an application for Nokia phones that lets you write your SMS by using Morse code.

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  2. Re:no surprise... by nacturation · · Score: 4, Informative

    Granted, but let's see them repeat the experiment with a device that has a full keyboard on it. I've known people who can type on QWERTY at 120 WPM sustained, let's see any morse guy keep up. Or get one of those closed caption keyers to compete as well -- they apparently go up to 250 WPM.

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  3. Re:What you say??? by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Informative
    SMS on a phone keypad is already a morse code. It just happens to involve somewhere around 10 different keys instead of 2.
    ASCII is an EBCDIC. It just happens to use different codes for the character.

    French is a Hindi. It just happens to use different words for most things.

    An electric oven is a gas oven. It just happens to use electricity instead of gas.

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