🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 4:13:54 PM UTC-4, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2018-04-24, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 12:12:09 AM UTC-4, Jon Elson wrote:
> >
> >> hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> >> 
> >>> off topic
> >>> Two page ad by United Aircraft describing new B-52 bomber.
> >>
> >> https://books.google.com/books?id=ElYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20bus&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false
> >> 
> >> AAAnd, they are still flying!
> >
> > Retired airforce pilots have not spoken well of them--the airframes
> > are too old.
> 
> Sort of like the ancient Sea King helicopters that the Canadian
> military had to deal with.  One of the pilots wrote a critique,
> sung to the tune of "Seasons in the Sun":
> 
>     Goodbye papa, it's hard to fly
>     When your airframe's cracking in the sky.
>     For every hour in the air,
>     It takes twenty to repair.
>     We fly these things on a dare.
> 
>     We had joy, we had fun,
>     We had Sea Kings in the sun.
>     But the engine's on fire,
>     And the Sea Kings must retire.

One time in NYC some Canadian Navy ships paid a visit and 
hosted an open house.  On the bridge they had typical
office desks with a PC on them.  The PC screens had
a vertical chart with the speeds of the old ship's
telegraph--full ahead, full astern, etc.

I thought that was kind of sad.

However, I believe the veteran workhouse, the Teletype model
28, was originally developed for marine service.  according
to Wikipedia, that remained in production as long as the model
33 did, even though it was Baudot.  A lot of Western Union 
networks stuck with Baudot.  I think their SIMCOM was Baudot.