Sorry if I overreacted.. "cobbled together" might not be as I thought you meant it. Peace From: Kool Musick <koolmusick@...> Reply-To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:49:56 -0800 To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [L-OT] Lovely Rita Meter Maid..... Kool Musick wrote: >It's also partly a 'Europe versus USA' thing! The VU 'standard' was cobbled >together by Bell Labs, CBS and NBC back in the late 30's or early 40's. >They optimized it for radio broadcasting primarily, but for all sound > recording in general. To which res0934j <res0934j@...> responded: >I don't think those Bell labs scientists would have liked the way >you describe their pioneering efforts, Hmmmm .... maybe ... then again maybe not. >by the way those labs were >an international bunch of scientists cobbling stuff together as >the first in the world at that time. PPM just like PAL came later >and was in part build on the lessons learned from Bell.. To be honest, I was going for the (typically British) humorous and ironic approach. I was simply trying to make what I was writing a tad more interesting seeing as how what I mostly write is so very dull and tedious. I have EVERY respect for those guys because, as you said, they were doing things that we now take totally for granted as obvious when when they were doing it it was not at all obvious. I never in the world meant to imply the slightest bit of disrespect to the Bell engineers, who also gave us the beginning of information theory, and apologise to them if that's how it came off. To be honest, it never once occurred to me that what I had said could have been interpreted in the way you have suggested. Kool Musick Keep Musick Kool _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>; .