>I didn't get to play at the high stakes tables (where the PDP-11 people sit)
>but I do fondly recall the happy feeling of getting my SYM-1 talking to a
>KIM-1 via serial connection.....
>
>The SYM-1 was really funky for it's time as it had a quasi video out that
>would display a line of text on a oscilliscope's screen...
>These computers came out after the boxes with all the paddle switches
>(Altair8080) but before video was a "standard" item....
>
>Actually with the other thread about age I am starting to feel old......
>Sniff....
>
>
>Bob
And military stuff. Never forget the military stuff.
I fondly remember a description of the KY-57 secure voice unit, which
said its speech quality demonstrated symmetrical encryption. Not
symmetrical as in today's usage of public/private key, but in that
the voice quality was the same whether you were listening to it with
or without benefit of the key.
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