I want my money!

[Randolph D. Garrett]

Many years ago (mid '70s) I was at San Francisco State University
visiting their computer system in the old mainframe days! And I started
brainstorming about hearing aids that would work for me.

I came up with programmable hearing aids (as well as a car-train
concept) but of course micro technology was barely in existence back
then.

So now people are building them and I can't afford them! I want my
money for 'inventing' the idea!!!!!

Seriously, the design I had required > 32 distinct frequencies to be
adjustable by typing in a number then setting the volume for that
frequency.

What I had seen a while back was barely anywhere near the design and not
a useful. Has anyone reached that level of discrimination? Anyone want
to hire me to work on such a design? I was a computer programmer until
the companies I worked for went out of business.

Randolph D. Garrett
Santa Rosa, CA

[Bob Bensing]

Randolph,

I think you will have to fight with the military on a design patent. In the
early 70s I was working on equipment that had A/D and D/A conversions with
at least as many channels as you are talking about. Of course there was
some extra cryptographic circuitry in between, but just the conversion
circuitry was too big to fit in a backpack. It would have been hard to
carry around the needed power supply.

Bob Bensing

[Randolph D. Garrett]

That explains where I got the idea.

[Kevin Balaam]

In article <382A7D2E...@techie.com>,

"Randolph D. Garrett" <r...@techie.com> wrote:
> Many years ago (mid '70s) I was at San Francisco State University
> visiting their computer system in the old mainframe days! And I
started
> brainstorming about hearing aids that would work for me.

> Randolph D. Garrett
> Santa Rosa, CA
>

It would've been a bit hard to lug around a mainframe hearing aid!<G
throughout> - "I've got a sore neck." "Damn this thick power cord!" "I
can't understand what you are saying right now. I should understand it
tonight when I run the batch processing." "I can't understanding what
you are saying. It's the computer's fault. There's nothing I can do
about it."

But the air conditioning might make up for all that.<g>
--
Kevin Balaam
kev...@aus.zopps.com
ICQ#:24195835

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