I, for one, appreciate FI's response, especially on a slow news day,
Friday, when most volks are thinking of the long weekend, & FI's PR dept.
is still hard at werk!

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-bring on the Luftwaffe

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> That is probably the best bit of bumph to come out of FI. If nothing else,
> FI has a cracking PR department :)
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 2013-08-30, at 4:47 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
>
> > Harrumph. These iPad things are far from having proven themselves as a
> lasting technological success. The telegraph, on the other hand, has been
> around for nearly a century and a half. While the directors at Bell
> Industries bows down to the likes of Tesla and Jobs, we at Felder
> Enterprises hold Samuel Morse and Daniel Farenheit as our guiding lights.
> We are currently looking into a flip-top bakelite cover for a
> console-mounted telegraph key. Some serious design work was done and
> actually used in all the Luftwaffe craft that were outfitted with a
> telegraph about the time the the British began using them in their Spads.
> Felder Enterprises has obtained shop drawings and has viewed actual
> examples of these covers, which prevent dust and oxidation from encroaching
> upon the sensitive brass leaves of the mechanism, but are always ready to
> transmit with a single bat of the glove. None of this "screen-swiping" that
> the lastest generation of frippery and gee-gaws with touchy-feely screens
> demand.
> >
> > And--get this--the proposed bakeline telgraph key cover, when reversed
> all the way over its pivot, will operate a microswitch that will illuminate
> a slide rule clip with ample room for the device and piano key felt to keep
> from shattering the ivory edges at low temperatures!! What's your big move
> now, Bell?
> >
> > A polite note: As always, though, the machine work of Bell Industries�if
> misguided in its direction�is first class.
> >
> > Jim Felder
> > Executive Chief Evangelist
> > Felder Industries Eastern Division
>

-- 
Tom Buese