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Re:Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100 by trehalose on Saturday December 13, 2025 @11:23AM (#46255686)
Hedy Lamarr was a prolific inventor. Among other things, she developed a frequency-hopping spread spectrum radio transmission technique for torpedo guidance and donated the patent to the US Navy during WW2.
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Re:Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100 by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday December 13, 2025 @01:01PM (#46256496)
That's "Headley!" (Blazing Saddles reference).

And of course, there's Sir Doctor Brian May.

Many of the early electronic musicians were basically engineers (you had to be, to use some of those old synthesizers).

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Re:Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100 by gramie on Sunday December 14, 2025 @03:48PM (#46266740)
I believe that the frequency hopping technique is still used everywhere today, for things like wi-fi and Bluetooth.
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