RadioBanter - View Single Post - Is the code requirement really keeping good people out of ham radio?

[email protected] · October 14th 06, 12:21 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:

Indeed, NONE of today's computers are related to ENIAC
any more than WE are "related" to some proto-humans of
Africa.

Today's computers are the direct descendants of ENIAC - the world's
very first fully operational, high speed, general purpose, electronic
digital computer.

There are far fewer generations between ENIAC and "today's computers"
than there are between modern humans and the species those humans
evolved from.

btw, Len, more than 95% of *your* DNA is identical to the DNA of a
chimpanzee. Have a banana and calm down.

As ever to you, the ByteBrothers famous phrase is invoked.

Is that the phrase:

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL" ?

Or how about:

"I wouldn't call it *intelligent* life, Jim...." ?

Or:

"Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?"

Or:

"How can you be in two places at once if you're not anywhere at all?"