Upon the date 12:26 AM 12/3/99 +0000, Joe said something like: Many of us who are collectors or users of military radios have seen the available gear on the market virtually dry up because of such policies promulgated by Congress. Their fear is that terrorists could use them against us. An 80+ pound, 1950's technology communications receiver used by terrorists against us? Hmmm, must be afraid of terrorists dropping one on their heads :-) Much discussion had been flowing on this subject on the military radio collectors, R390 and boatanchors lists over the past year or so. Some changes have been made such as removing the militarized versions of Kenwood-brand tranceivers from scrap lists at the DRMO level, but not most of the other old radios which hams, collectors and shortwave listeners could well use. Supercomputers, OTOH, are definitely lusted after by Iraq, Iran and several other "enemies" of the US plus Russia and China and I guess we can understand an assured destruct contract on those. Wish there was a clearing house to get those machines and associated operational support to North American or other Western Universities for research use instead of scrapping them. Regards, Chris -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/

Derek Peschel wrote: I've wondered about that line for ages. For starters, it has several typos. I think the corrected version is: for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_ "+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2); (ie. decrement operator inserted twice, and the underscore needs a space after it) As this code does something useful, I can't imagine anyone writing it just for the sake of a joke, so does anyone know where it came from?