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From: "Jerry Keller - K3BZ" <k3bz@...>

May we know your name and callsign milady?

73, Jerry K3BZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "jdow" <jdow@...>

{^_-} I suppose I'm a lady. W6MKU sure as heck ain't a gentleman. I'm
to vicious when riled. {O,o}

Um, I'm good on QRZ and the call is right there before your eyes in the
message in which you posted that request. I find that amusing. {^_-}

{^_^} as a signature is so ingrained in me it's hard to break. It started
over a couple decades ago.

The first part, which actually happened after the second part had
begun, was my being assigned some work on a VAX-780 running VMS. I
have a character asset called curiosity. When I had time I prowled
around the machine, harmlessly since I could not finish my job if it
broke. I discovered that VMS disks and partitions are referred to as
[000,000] for partition zero disk zero, and so forth. I soon learned
that you can shorten this to [0,0]. I noted the resemblance to a face
right away.

The second part of its beginnings was my participation in an "Amateur
Press Association" "distie" (or distribution) called "APA-L" that is
collated weekly Thursday evenings as the LASFS, Los Angeles Science
Fantasy Society, meetings. Zines, a person's contributions, often had
interliners, stings of symbols to set off sections. One day I used
"[0,0]" repeated across the page for the first interliner. Then I
decided a variation on the theme might be interesting. By illogical
progression I started using [^_^] as a signature at the end of my
Zine.

Now, it seems Jerry Pournelle (yeah him) is a member in very long
and good standing of LASFS. He had gotten to know that I had computers
and modems. This was in 1985 with SLOW SLOW modems, mind you. He had
also heard I was doing some BBS work and CP/M hacking. One day he took
me aside and told me to find a "Tymnet" phone number and type "bix" at
the prompts, or something like that.

So when I got home I did. BIX was booted near the last day of March. I
was on it by early June of 1985. And [O_O] became my signature. On BIX
it was easy to "show resume" to figure out who a person was. So that
soon became my only signature. That lasted until not very long ago
when the lights were finally turned out at BIX. During that time the
signature rounded out a little, which I think is a little more
feminine. And I developed the {O,o} (crazed}, {^_-} (wink), and many
other variants.

It's hard to break a habit of essentially 20 years making. I still tend
to sign messages {^_^}. There is this little "reinforcement" that I see,
too. The ambiguity tends to lull people into thinking I might be one of
the guys. So when I start talking dirty er technical they have a better
chance of listening. Can you guess at my degree of contentment with the
kind of situation that has me the senior engineer present in a meeting
with the customer's men all asking the other men questions I should be
the one answering? Then when one of them turns to me to ask if I'd go
get coffee.... They were customers. I managed to hold a straight face
as I said I'd ask a secretary to get it. "My" half of the room visibly
relaxed when I kept my cool. At least some of them had noticed my
growing irritation. {^_-} So anyway, the "logical mistakes" tend to
reinforce the relative anonymity of the "BIXie" signature.

{^_-} Joanne, Wilma's 6 Mangy Kinky Undies (Wonderful 6 Million
Kilowatts Unleashed?) And for the record "every Thursday"
above means it. There have been fewer meetings that did not
happen than there are years the club has existed. And it's
the oldest SF club in continuous existance in the known
universe. (Yes, Larry Niven, the author, is also a member.)




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Adam-san and all,

On February 25, Kenwood and Icom agreed to cross-hold shares and
join forces in the development of next generation digital
communication products.

73 de JA7UDE Oba



--- In ic7000@..., Adam Farson <farson@s...> wrote:

Hi Paul,

Considering that all the Japanese manufacturers are now

outsourcing PCB fab,

die-cast chassis injection moulding and other subassembly

manufacture to

lower-labour-cost areas in Asia, Icom should be able to hold the

price down

to the $1K level.

Your comments about DSP vs. analogue/crystal-filter architecture

are

absolutely correct. Economics, as well as performance and

capability, are

driving the shift to 100% DSP implementations.

"In technology, there are only two degrees of freedom: forward and

down.

There is no backwards."

Cheers for now, 73,
Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ

Adam-san and all,

On February 25, Kenwood and Icom agreed to cross-hold shares and
join forces in the development of next generation digital
communication products.

73 de JA7UDE Oba



--- In ic7000@..., Adam Farson <farson@s...> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Considering that all the Japanese manufacturers are now
outsourcing PCB fab,
> die-cast chassis injection moulding and other subassembly
manufacture to
> lower-labour-cost areas in Asia, Icom should be able to hold the
price down
> to the $1K level.
>
> Your comments about DSP vs. analogue/crystal-filter architecture
are
> absolutely correct. Economics, as well as performance and
capability, are
> driving the shift to 100% DSP implementations.
>
> "In technology, there are only two degrees of freedom: forward and
down.
> There is no backwards."
>
> Cheers for now, 73,
> Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ
>







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I have read Megahertz for about 10 years during mid 80's and I can
confirm that it is a solid circulation.
In fact, when the rumor came out, I was surprised that it was from them
since they are too serious sometimes for such rumors.

-best

On Feb 27, 2005, at 4:49 PM, jdow wrote:

<grinning> There are ALWAYS a LOT of rumors. (The remark about OBB
comes
to mind.) There is only one that traces back as well as the French ham
radio magazine. And, not knowing the magazine's reputation, I cannot
say for sure I even trust it. But there are ALWAYS rumors. (Joe told
Bill who told me that someone at ICOM in Slobovia said......)

<grinning> There are ALWAYS a LOT of rumors. (The remark about OBB comes
to mind.) There is only one that traces back as well as the French ham
radio magazine. And, not knowing the magazine's reputation, I cannot
say for sure I even trust it. But there are ALWAYS rumors. (Joe told
Bill who told me that someone at ICOM in Slobovia said......)

Marcus:

The only information anyone has on the IC-7000 is what you have already

Currently there are no other rumors!

When the first IC-7000 (or 700 or whatever) is actually delivered, let me

73, Jerry K3BZ