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File DL12

    30-Mar-88 03:09:34
Sb: #116503-File DL12
Fm: John Draper 76703,4322
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
All in what you consider to be data I guess. To me, garbage is data that happens to be aded on. regarding Kansas City Standard… the problem with it was manyfold, but the biggest were speed and the method most of the implementations were done. Since it was nothing more or less than redundant phase encoding, a far better method was to simply make it phase encoding, saving a lot of cycles better spent reading more data instead of trusting a semi-analog ciruit to hopefully lock on to the current bit. I designed and built a circuit that was cheaper and more reliable than KCS, and had the additional advantage of running at 4200 baud. I didn't have much good to say about KCS then, and still don't. It showed the influence of a lot of outspoken people who pushed things through while ignoring the pleas of the more knowledgeable who were trying to get something that would do the best job accepted.