The first time? Really? The first time EVER? Somehow I am suspecting it is “the first time in X number of years...”
I can’t get to youtube now. Work has it blocked.
Wow! What a thrill! Almost as exciting as this morning’s phone call over my AT&T wireless phone! I had almost 3 (THREE!) minutes of conversation — not quite as clear as this recording, but okay — before the call dropped! That’s DARN good!
It puts me in mind of a videotaped course on digital signal processing I took back in the 1970s, in which they demonstrated enhancing an old Caruso record which had been made with a purely mechanical process, without electronics. Which had terrible frequency response. It was remarkable what they could do with that, at the dawn of digital signal processing. I would hope they could do a lot better than that now, what with mere iPads having more number-crunch capability than a supercomputer of that era.
It puts me in mind of a videotaped course on digital signal processing I took back in the 1970s, in which they demonstrated enhancing an old Caruso record which had been made with a purely mechanical process, without electronics. Which had terrible frequency response. It was remarkable what they could do with that, at the dawn of digital signal processing. I would hope they could do a lot better than that now, what with mere iPads having more number-crunch capability than a supercomputer of that era.
Sidebar: My daughter went to school with Alexander Graham Bell’s great-granddaughter. (President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, has two living grandsons.) Strange how close we are to what seems like ancient times. Her family was not particularly wealthy, which shows how quickly family fortunes dissipate. (She attended public school in a leafy suburb.)