If I remember right -- and no, I wasn't around back then! -- Henry invented the idea of an electromagnetic "sounder" and an interrupted circuit as a method of signalling.
Morse (who was an artist by trade) invented the code that bears his name (though what we call "Morse code" today is not much like his original encoding, just as EBCDIC isn't ASCII insn't UNICODE). Originally, Morse code was a VISUAL medium -- the telegraph was supposed to output as short and long marks on a moving paper tape (which method -- Kleinschmidt?? -- was used by the military in WWII, though I forget what the details were). But the telegraph operators soon learned to decode the clicks and gaps without bothering to refill the messy, balky inking devices.
For awhile there were three or four designs out there for MIDI guitar (controllers). None of them felt or played all that much like a real axe, IMHO.
Could this technology be adapted (in a cost-effective way) to "read" a standard accoustic guitar and transcribe to MIDI? Or is this stuff a twelve-ton behemouth best left in the corner of a physics lab?
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Well, for one thing, vi can interchange two characters (xp) -- being dislexic when sitting at a keyboard, I find that a feature I miss.
I use the morse code message route frequently while debugging some multi-threaded code (to the annoyance of coworkers). Since I'm blessed with a good sense of pitch, I'll often encode information in the frequency as well as the text.
It has a couple of advantages -- you don't need to arrange to get a window open in a process that wouldn't normally use one and the extra time delay caused by sending the message can be instructive if you've accidentally coded some kind of synchronism bug. Besides, it's just plain fun -- and isn't that the whole point of writing code anyway?
Some of us run OLDER versions of Windoze (NT 4.0, for example). Is the government gonna help us, or is it a conspiracy to get everybody to fork over more bucks to Macrosloth?
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If I remember right -- and no, I wasn't around back then! -- Henry invented the idea of an electromagnetic "sounder" and an interrupted circuit as a method of signalling. Morse (who was an artist by trade) invented the code that bears his name (though what we call "Morse code" today is not much like his original encoding, just as EBCDIC isn't ASCII insn't UNICODE). Originally, Morse code was a VISUAL medium -- the telegraph was supposed to output as short and long marks on a moving paper tape (which method -- Kleinschmidt?? -- was used by the military in WWII, though I forget what the details were). But the telegraph operators soon learned to decode the clicks and gaps without bothering to refill the messy, balky inking devices.
For awhile there were three or four designs out there for MIDI guitar (controllers). None of them felt or played all that much like a real axe, IMHO. Could this technology be adapted (in a cost-effective way) to "read" a standard accoustic guitar and transcribe to MIDI? Or is this stuff a twelve-ton behemouth best left in the corner of a physics lab?
Well, for one thing, vi can interchange two characters (xp) -- being dislexic when sitting at a keyboard, I find that a feature I miss.
I use the morse code message route frequently while debugging some multi-threaded code (to the annoyance of coworkers). Since I'm blessed with a good sense of pitch, I'll often encode information in the frequency as well as the text.
It has a couple of advantages -- you don't need to arrange to get a window open in a process that wouldn't normally use one and the extra time delay caused by sending the message can be instructive if you've accidentally coded some kind of synchronism bug. Besides, it's just plain fun -- and isn't that the whole point of writing code anyway?
Some of us run OLDER versions of Windoze (NT 4.0, for example). Is the government gonna help us, or is it a conspiracy to get everybody to fork over more bucks to Macrosloth?