Is a human in the loop or is morse code the serialization format for the data...
@darkuncle Is a human in the loop or is morse code the serialization format for the data across the wire? Humans are limited by clicks per minute which is 420 clicks per minute or so.
My bot assisted estimate is 8 bits per second, but the stuff a computer can encode includes pictures and a person is only going to send letters, so I'm not sure this is comparable.
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@darkuncle To switch from sending 0 & 1 over the wire to morse, you need 4 symbols, long, short, end of letter, end of word. So if we take out the human, but keep morse, we should use a quaternary system. Wikipedia says trinary computer were build, no evidence for quaternary computers in my short search.