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You're about halfway through your shift at the Davis Very Large Array
Radio Observatory (DVLARO), located in a desolate stretch of the U.S.'s
Desert Southwest. The observatory's current project, SETI (search for
extra-terrestrial intelligence), is usually fairly dull, and tonight is
no exception...
Then, the telescopes intercept a strong, steady signal. It seems,
initially, at least, to be composed of a two-tone pulsed signal, with
brief pauses scattered throughout. The data saved to disk at your remote
terminal to the DVLARO represents the pauses as zeros, the 978-Hz tones as
1s, and the 1956-Hz tones as 2s.
Your task is to decode the signal. If you feel that you need extra
hints, look carefully at the MSG_INTERPRET program's output screen, while
it runs. It'll give you an idea of what the DVLARO's moderately well-
written AI routines *think* they have seen in the message.
This fun little piece of work is produced by Barnesbay Software, a custom
programming and shareware company. Donations or just comments are welcome!
Disclaimer : all persons, organizations, & cetera mentioned in this work are
purely fictitious, and any resemblance to persons, organizations, & cetera,
dead/defunct/lost or alive/funct/found is utterly coincidental.
Warrantee : if the program or associated text files break, you can have both
pieces. No other warantee is available. The only disk operation performed
by this program is to write out the signal data, which it will tell you it
is doing. This program is utterly useless for predicting sunspots, women's
hemlines, or stock market crashes. Must I go on?
Thank you for choosing to use this fine software product, from Barnesbay
Software.
Lars D. Hedbor, 22 September 1991
(minor documentation revisions 15 January 1993)
Barnesbay Software
CIS : 70304,1127
Snail : P.O. Box 343
South Hero, Vermont 05486
ICBM : 44.69N x 73.28W
(no Internet, alas!)