> Nope, I haven't been in IT since the mid-80's, but I did grow up with
> modems (all the way back the the venerable Anderson Jacobsen 300 baud
> units that you had to put your telephone handset into). A bit too much
> latency for Sun Ray, even with Kent's great work on low bandwidth ;-)

:-)

Someone should implement a Sun Ray connection over the famous
pigeon IP protocol...

> > BTW what is this?  Looks like a downed Heinkel He 111 with some
> > strange directional antenna attached... or is it some tractor gear?
>
> You are very close - this is a Heinkel He 111 H-8 Cable Cutter which was
> used to cut the cables of British barrage balloons which were put up
> over
> London and other parts of the UK during the war:
>
> http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_he_111_cable_cutter1.html

Fascinating.  Never seen that before... I should have looked at the
file name in the attachment.   I guess I am spoiled now that even
emacs displays images inline.

> cutting mechanism and their use was quickly abandoned. "A" for effort
> though.

Yes, there was lots of misguided effort around here at that time.


Regards -- Volker
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