Pointless question...

[Jules Richardson]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2008 at 22:08, Scanning wrote:
> 
>> It has to be done in hardware otherwise why bother. If you want the respect
>> and awe of the group show us your gravitas and use a spool of fibre optic
>> cable as the "media" and blink your data in through an LED or LASER diode. A
>> photo transistor or photo PIN diode at the end will read your data so that
>> it can be replicated at the beginning of the fibre and start the whole loop
>> over again. Makes me tingle just thinking about it.
> 
> Crikey, I couldn't afford enough fiber to recirculate a megabit!  
> Let's see--I'm after a 10MHz bitrate and the speed of light through 
> glass is about 2.00x10**8 m/sec... 

Hmm, big laser and a Mars-mounted reflector? Cue "world's biggest computer " 
and "world's first interplanetary computer" threads :-)

JOOI, what was the typical speed for original delay-storage technology? How 
does your intended 10MHz compare?

cheers

Jules