[GreenKeys] Re: Fwd: Quick Brown Fox question

Wed, 8 May 2002 09:33:30 -0400

As I remember it, this was the test message.  It included a three character
station id and was seventy two characters long.

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 VAD SENDING
         1         2         3         4         5         6         7
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012

Tom KA2VAD

-----Original Message-----
From: Veenstra, Lester B. [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:45 PM
To: sam.hallas; Green Keys
Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] Re: Fwd: Quick Brown Fox question

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 TIMES
       1         2         3         4         5         6    
1235689012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
-----Original Message-----
From: sam.hallas [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:12 PM
To: Green Keys
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Re: Fwd: Quick Brown Fox question

Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 
> About 5 years ago a black lady in a Dentist office objected
> to "quick brown fox" for testing  printers!! She deleted it and
> typed in "This is the day the Lord made" - I didn't bother
> trying to explain that that didn't contain every letter in it.
> 

She might have been even more alarmed at 

JACKDAWS LOVE MY BIG SPHINX OF QUARTZ

I thought I remembered that the usual test message was

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK

and that the "'S BACK" was only put in to increase the line length to a
full line. Hovever, now that I count up that's only 50 characters. I
thought the teleprinter line length was 69. Is my memory failing?

Cheers,

Sam

BTW I replied to Chuck's message rather than the following one from
Eldon P. Laffoon, which exemplifies why I preferred the reflector to
work as it used to, like a newsgroup. A Reply to All would have left  me
deleting so many unwanted entries it doesn't bear thinking about.
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