Texting v Morse Code

[Lawdog Dago Dom]

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[Rye Miles #13621]

That was awesome!

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

Good one! 

[Alpo]

They didn't take into account the speed of people versus the speed of computers.

 

If I'm on a telegraph key, and you're on the telegraph key - whether we're using wired or wireless telegraphy is irrelevant - as soon as I hit my key you hear it. Speed of light (what's that - 186,000 miles per second?)

 

But the text is sent at the speed of a computer. And sometimes those computers take a while.

 

I pay my phone bill online and they send me a confirmation text. Sometimes I have not set my phone down before I hear that text arrive - ding! But sometimes it takes four or five minutes before that confirmation text gets here. Because the computer was busy doing something else I guess.

 

So texter A could have finished sending his message, but because of computer lag texter B had not yet received it.

 

 

[Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L]

The text message would need to be complete before sending while the telegraph is sending letters as the messages is being sent and transformed into words and a full message.

[Rye Miles #13621]

40 minutes ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said:

The text message would need to be complete before sending while the telegraph is sending letters as the messages is being sent and transformed into words and a full message.

Great point! They get those letters and words immediately!

[Blackwater 53393]

It’s all well and good IF you know Morse Code!!

[Sedalia Dave]

Morse Code saves the world. 
 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

12 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

It’s all well and good IF you know Morse Code!!

I usta did, but it's mostly gone now.   I still know ...---...  That's for my own self defense.

 

 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

20 hours ago, Alpo said:

They didn't take into account the speed of people versus the speed of computers.

 

 

That's irrelevant.  Which message got through first? 

[watab kid]

i did a little key work back a great many decades - it was not my first language , my great aunt was the telegrapher by key , in the rail road station in alliance nebraska many decades ago she was good - as hard as she tried to train me i never really caught on , my great uncle was station master there as well ,in that era , we were once a RR family back in the early days ,