Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

[David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com>]

Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
> > so ... mark lottor's your-machine-room-is-melting thermo+modem circa 1990
> > is what? prior art?
>
> Or the first project that I was senior systems analyst, back in 1979, 
> all published and everything -- remote sensing in farmers' fields via 
> satellite and X.25.  (Messages contained type=value tuples, not XML.)




I used to work on North Electric Paracode on a pipeline control
system. It sent six bits, with 2 of the 5 spaces as longer to
count decimal:

1       12
2       13
3       14
4       15
....
9       35
0       45

It generated the longer pauses with copper-cored -48v telco relays
that hung in a little longer.

There were relay-based A-D converters to read meter pressures.
And shift registers to sample&hold meter counts.

The acceptance test was in Galion OH on the day President Kennedy
said: 

        Good evening my fellow citizens:

        This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest
        surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island
        of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has
        established the fact that a series of offensive missile
        sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The
        purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide
        a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.

Does that count as prior art?

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