I started back in the late 60'sWorked on mainframes and related devices. Univac systems. IBM 7000 series and 360 systems.
Todays devices are so driven by software.Interpretation is so subjective. I have to find a 10 yr old to explain my telephone to me.

20,000 ohms sound really dangerous. Is it allowed in homes???

Again you were a few years ahead, JB. I didn't get on the "internet" until the early 90's when I was consulting for Emory University. (I didn't know what an IP address was until then.) I did use bulletin boards and access customer mainframes at 300 baud in the 80s even before I bought my first computer. I went through rolls of thermal paper on my beach vacations fixing client's "emergencies."

I started computing in '84 and '85, getting onto the Internet at the whopping baud rate of 300 bps.

You two were a few years ahead of me. I didn't buy a computer until I started my consulting business in '85 and needed one. It was a Compaq transportable (and it still worked the last time I booted it 10+ years ago.) I recall being complimented by ladies on commercial flights for the sewing machine I was taking to my mother or girlfriend. I upgraded it with a 286 card to get 6Mhz whiz-bang performance ;^)
It was an amazing machine compared to the 10,000 sf mainframe (the first computer I used in person) which had 48k available memory for programs.

The Trash 80 was my first computer. I soon upgraded to an Apple IIe back in the days when "64K ought to be enough for anybody".

My college comp sci lab had a bank of TRS-80 terminals (fondly named Trash 80s) that would reboot whenever a student first touched them due to the static discharge built up from the carpeting. This lab also had an old double hung window that was often open due to the heat of the computers. The window was directly above a coal train, and the dust certainly reduced the life of the poor PDP-11 housed in that room. I clearly remember a student in charge of the massive disk drive manually moving the read head in an attempt to reboot the system. Definitely a hands on system. We did have a high speed printer; all the better to print results of infinite lprint loops. I saw stacks of paper 4 feet high with nothing but the letter A printed on each page.

Very clever.

Here is a story to show what another electrical term, “conductor” is.

There was a StreetCar Conductor in San Francisco. One day, a vagrant tried to sneak a ride and the conductor stopped him. A fight ensued and unfortunately, the vagrant struck his head and died. The DA filed charges and the Conductor was found guilty and sentenced to die in the electric chair.

On execution night, the Conductor requested a dozen bananas for his last meal. The conductor ate them and then willingly sat down in the electric and was strapped in. The warden pulled the switch and 20,000VAC ran through the Conductor as he sat there and laughed. Because of California law, you only have one chance at executing a prisoner, so the conductor was unstrapped and allowed to leave. While walking out, the warden said “what does eating all of those bananas have to do with the fact that we couldn’t electrocute you.” With a big smile the conductor said “the bananas don’t have anything to do with it. I’m just a bad Conductor.”

Ohm's law is one of the first things electrical engineering (EE) students are taught. It is:

Voltage = Current * Resistance

Voltage is expressed in Volts (named after Alessandro Volta); Current is expressed in Amperes (named after André-Marie Ampère), and Resistance is expressed in Ohms (named after Georg Ohm).

Ohm's law is the basis of much of the EE curriculum. Most EEs use it daily in their work.

< groan > ;-)

It was actually made by Teletype Corporation. I'm amazed how the technology we have today makes this device so archaic, but then I've lived professionally in the high-tech industry since the late-70's.

More on the ASR 33 here for those who've never seen one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletyp...

It's a measure of resistance in a circuit to the flow of electrical current.

So what is an Ohm? Some measurement of electriciy, like a watt?

Ahh, brings back memories of my Commodore 64, I even bought a tape drive, then a high speed disk drive. It was so fast it could load (forgot the name of it) the word processor program into memory in about 10 minutes.

In the 50's as a teen I worked for IFA Electronics, a specialty retail outlet in S. Cal. In out retail parts area we had a huge capacitor about 6" x 18" x 2 feet tall, with a sign on it labeling it as an "Inverted Thermothrocal". Had a lot of laughs about it, but mostly for the gullibility of talking people into believing it.

Once we win, we can switch from sparking resistance to generating a cord.

.... but accurate !

In light of Rand's view on mystics, this deserves an LOL!!!! +100

Especially for their arch-rival species!

I had the development platform for the TI 9900, which was a pretty slick microprocessor in its day. The PDP-8 I “grew up” on was located at a University in the state I grew up in. We had an ASR-33 teletype (!), paper tape (!!), and a modem with and acoustic coupler. A whopping 110 Baud! When I went to that University I became one of the system administrators and was blown away by the Hazeltine CRTs that could achieve a mind-blowing 300 Baud. Those were the days.

but will that be enough to fix the ohm-less problem?

http://themetapicture.com/media/funny...

If I remember the Borg correctly, it would be futile to resist 7of 9.

Was that a Kliendschmidt tty?