On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:10:10 -0400, River Horse <***@comcast.net>
wrote:
>Did you understand it,
It rang a bell, but there's not enough geek in me to fully appreciate
the humor.
The whole start bit / stop bit parity bit thing I remember, something
to do with setting up the modems back in the day before windows would
do it for you. You had to specify the parity bit and if it was a 7 or
8 bit system. Also I think you had to set up some of that on the old
DIP pins on the back of dot matrix printers. They used to hook up to
those huge db25 25 pin serial ports.
Ahhh .. the days when you actually had to figure out how to use these
damn things instead of plug & go. Don't miss it.
So, basiclly, you pretty much went through that for yourself. Hope
you're posting out of alt.timewasters.
>Dr. Livingston?
It's Livingstone with an "E". I'm not too fond of the Livingston side
of the family.
>
>Dr Livingstone wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:46:36 -0400, River Horse <***@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Steve wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hatchetmama Put Forth the Proposition That:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:54:34 -0400, Steve wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I lived in Germany for a bit. <<< aahhh a bit we can start decoding
>>>>>I lived in Australia for a bit. another bit
>>>>>I lived in America for a bit. another bit
>>>>>I'm moving to Korea for a bit. this makes four bits!!!!!
>>>>>Been to Egypt, England, France, Lexembourg, Austria, Mexico, and
>>>>>Canada.
>>>>>What does it make me?
>>>
>>>if i count corectly
>>>that makes you strange
>>>there were 4 bits
>>>then 7 countries names, i asssume each got one bit, but that was not
>>>specified
>>>so now there are a total of 7+4 or 11 bits
>>>Where is the octect?
>>>being that one of the countries is France and it is always a little off,
>>>we could assume it was the parity bit.
>>>
>>>this would give us 10 bits plus parity.
>>>hmmm... starting to make sense now.
>>>
>>>lets see, it all started in Egypt of course, so there is the start bit.
>>>
>>>The Americans THINK they are the end, but are really stuck in the
>>>middle, so the Austrailans must really be the stop bits after all.
>>>
>>>So I guess we have have it all decoded after all:
>>>You are a USART.
>>>
>>>Start Bit:
>>>Egypt.
>>>Data bits: Germany,
>>>America,
>>>Korea,
>>>England,
>>>Luxemburg,
>>>Austria,
>>>Mexico,
>>>Cananda
>>>
>>>Parity bit:France
>>>
>>>Stop Bit:
>>>Australia
>>>
>>>Does anybody have any idea what I am talking about?
>>>Don't tell me I wasted this completely!
>>
>>
>> Twice, or so it would seam.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Winner of best collection of completedly unrelated random nonsense silly
>>>techno babble in the last while pseudo random non-sense
>>>
>>>~steve
>>>
>>>have i lost all my sanity?
>>>did I ever have any sanity?
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