I, for one, appreciate FI's response, especially on a slow news day, Friday, when most volks are thinking of the long weekend, & FI's PR dept. is still hard at werk! YMMV, Mr. BZ-bring on the Luftwaffe
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: > That is probably the best bit of bumph to come out of FI. If nothing else, > FI has a cracking PR department :) > > alistair > > > On 2013-08-30, at 4:47 AM, Jim Felder wrote: > > > Harrumph. These iPad things are far from having proven themselves as a > lasting technological success. The telegraph, on the other hand, has been > around for nearly a century and a half. While the directors at Bell > Industries bows down to the likes of Tesla and Jobs, we at Felder > Enterprises hold Samuel Morse and Daniel Farenheit as our guiding lights. > We are currently looking into a flip-top bakelite cover for a > console-mounted telegraph key. Some serious design work was done and > actually used in all the Luftwaffe craft that were outfitted with a > telegraph about the time the the British began using them in their Spads. > Felder Enterprises has obtained shop drawings and has viewed actual > examples of these covers, which prevent dust and oxidation from encroaching > upon the sensitive brass leaves of the mechanism, but are always ready to > transmit with a single bat of the glove. None of this "screen-swiping" that > the lastest generation of frippery and gee-gaws with touchy-feely screens > demand. > > > > And--get this--the proposed bakeline telgraph key cover, when reversed > all the way over its pivot, will operate a microswitch that will illuminate > a slide rule clip with ample room for the device and piano key felt to keep > from shattering the ivory edges at low temperatures!! What's your big move > now, Bell? > > > > A polite note: As always, though, the machine work of Bell Industries—if > misguided in its direction—is first class. > > > > Jim Felder > > Executive Chief Evangelist > > Felder Industries Eastern Division >
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