Thursday, 30 October
Gantry:
Thank you ever so much for your excessive additions to what I have been advised to cease referring to as the Blammo 15. I already have Flechner hard at work squeezing your devices into the case, which has indeed grown to the size of a small recreational vehicle. All our problems will be solved if a means can be found to place 107,563 vacuum tubes on a copper plate 2 inches on a side. One solution I have been toying with: create a single base station with most of the mechanics and electronics within, and supply one to each interested paying community, and install terminals in the voters' homes. This would of course sacrifice portability.
As to our current legal entanglements: the counsel for the Blammo Corporation (one-time makers of fine explosive toys for the five-and-under set, most notably the Billy Mortar Home Shrapnel Playset (an eerie precursor to our own Lawn Bazooka?)), continues to stress that although his client exists only on paper in order to drag out out the remaining decades-old lawsuits, it will defend its service mark with all the savagery one would expect from a toy company. I briefly renamed the project the X-15, until a missive from the US Air Force caused me to rethink it.
As to compatibility with future media, the current design provides for half the case to be empty and brightly labelled "Interociter". Flechner feels that should cover it but I have my doubts, and am already in contact with my battery of cut-rate lawyers.
Sincerely,
Bela D'Ball
PS - We need more red metal-fleck paint.
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