[BC] New SDR- Star Treks' Tricorder?

[Glen Kippel]

On 6/5/06, RON DOT'O SR. <ron_doto at msn.com> wrote:
>
> I remember sitting in the Electronic Countermeasures shop at Whiteman AFB,
> MO., in 1961 (when we still had vibrator powered tube car radios) and
> predicting that someday we'd have a little handheld box that would do
> almost
> everything.
>
> With this technology it seems we're getting close.  Today it wouldn't be
> too
> hard to merge a handheld computer, cell phone, walkman TV/radio,
> calculator,
> camera/camcorder, cd/tape player, ipod etc into one unit.


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I recall reading an article with a similar theme back in 1991, IIRC.  It
asked if we were in the programming business or the delivery business,
because if it is the latter, "the stakes just got higher."  The author said
that radio as we know it may become as obsolete as telegraphy.