Seeking schematics/plans for decimal to binary (microswitch/relay) selector/controller

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You are in no position to complain about inappropriate responses from other people.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Where else would an antique prefer to be?

-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell Central Florida

Like every antique, I'd prefer to be less antique, but that isn't an availablle option.

John Field's problem is that he doesn't appreciate that written language is conservative because it provides access to an enormous mass of historical documents. Why should he - he clearly never reads any of them.

The Chinese are perhaps the most extreme case. The written language is used to represent a number of mutually unintelligible spoken languages, and doesn't do the job all that well

The ideographic characters are difficult to learn and people tend to forget characters that they don't see too often - alphabetic - phoneme- based - writing systems are much easier to acqure and easier to retain, but the Chinese can't throw out their rotten writing system without losing access to their historical documents.

Noah Webster's spelling reforms - such as they were - didn't help anybody enough so you'd notice, and marginally impaired American access to the body of English language documents.

John Fields claims that eliminating the redundant "u" in "colour"and similar words makes an appreciable and worthwhile to the speed with which you can type, but I'm sure that he doesn't use a Dvorak keyboard, which would make a much larger difference.

The fact that it has never become popular, illustrates the fact that typing speed as such isn't particularly important.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen