Learn Morse Code in 20 minutes Classic US Army Training -1966-

I was intially going to post this as a shit stir of Terrence Popps - with the title at least...
When Grand Daddy got off the Ark etc.. Military shit and all that.

But the good thing about being IGNORANT - is that my old man was exmilitary and into clandestine things... and Morse Code was part and parcel of the deal.

He was actually even older than Terrence - if that's possible.

However in posting it and watching it, in terms of the electronic long distance communications, it's one of the most basic and easy to set up systems ever....

This comes way from before the days of the Titanic's sinking, and it;'s a legitimate and real language with grammar and pornounciation...

And there are people who are really good at it.

My old man said you could tell who was keying off (sending a signal) by "the way" they did their morse coding.... It's just like speaking and hand writing and words chosen in a document.... It's a very distinct thing.

There were also signals interceptions during WW2 who said they could tell who the operators were, by their "signature" style and where they were located as they moved around Europe - by triangulating the signal, and information in the signal....

All the people at Bletchly Park and the HUGE communications part of WW2 and "breaking the Enigma Code" type operations....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Cryptanalysis_of_the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

The act of transmitting the code is like a HIGHLY structured language - in the WAY it's "spoken"....


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Spark-gap_transmitte

So behind the issue of Teasing Terrence, there is an rather HUGE amount of information, knowledge skills - so that like almost anything - it's a real artform.

This is a high skills area of knowledge.

AND it's sort of getting on towards becomming 200 years old.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing


https://upload.wikimedia.org/w....ikipedia/commons/thu


Articles

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Copeland, B. Jack (ed.). "The Mind and the Computing Machine: Alan Turing and others". The Rutherford Journal.
Copeland, B. Jack (ed.). "Alan Turing: Father of the Modern Computer". The Rutherford Journal.
Hodges, Andrew (2007). "Alan Turing". In Edward N. Zalta (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2009 ed.). Stanford University. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
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Gray, Paul (29 March 1999). "Computer Scientist: Alan Turing". Time. Archived from the original on 16 October 2007.

Books

Bernhardt, Chris (2017), Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science, MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-53351-5
Copeland, B. Jack; Bowen, Jonathan P.; Wilson, Robin; Sprevak, Mark (2017). The Turing Guide. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-874783-3.
Dyson, George (2012). Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. Vintage. ISBN 978-1-4000-7599-7.
Gleick, James (2011). The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-375-42372-7.
Hodges, Andrew (2014). Alan Turing: The Enigma. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-16472-4. (originally published in 1983); basis of the film The Imitation Game
Turing, Sara (2012). Alan M. Turing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-02058-0. (originally published in 1959 by W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd)

Oral history interview with Nicholas C. Metropolis, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Metropolis was the first director of computing services at Los Alamos National Laboratory; topics include the relationship between Turing and John von Neumann
How Alan Turing Cracked The Enigma Code Imperial War Museums
Alan Turing Year Archived 17 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine
CiE 2012: Turing Centenary Conference
Science in the Making Alan Turing's papers in the Royal Society's archives
Alan Turing site maintained by Andrew Hodges including a short biography
AlanTuring.net – Turing Archive for the History of Computing by Jack Copeland
The Turing Archive – contains scans of some unpublished documents and material from the King's College, Cambridge archive
Alan Turing Papers – University of Manchester Library, Manchester
Jones, G. James (11 December 2001). "Alan Turing – Towards a Digital Mind: Part 1". System Toolbox. The Binary Freedom Project. Archived from the original on 3 August 2007.
Sherborne School Archives – holds papers relating to Turing's time at Sherborne School
Alan Turing plaques recorded on openplaques.org
Alan Turing archive on New Scientist