Did some of us start this way? :)

[krw]

(I don't even know what key I hit to do the send in middle of typing
command. I hate google groups. I'm going back to my other reader,
even if it doesn't include sci.physics)

Try individual.net. For $13/yr you get excellent text-only NNTP
service. No binaries, so pron is out.

Back to what I was typing when I so rudely interrupted myself:

I hate it when that happens.

The
whole project came to a halt when I relaized that my design would need
a dry cell battery at every relay.

We built a relay logic tic-tac-toe machine when I was in high school.
Its logic was flawless; it never lost and would often win, even if it
had to cheat (erasing your 'X' to put in its 'O') to do it. ;-) We
couldn't figure out how to do the various mirror and rotation images,
so it got pretty big and needed LOTSA power.