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This "Royal Navy" version was received on April, 2018 from Ms Bridget Harris, from Edinburgh and published with her authorization.

If you should see upon the street,
A man equipped with dipole feet
and a“curving" family trailed behind;
That's the Radar man with a micromind.
 
His eyes take on a neon gleam,
His ears extend to a Yagi beam;
His mouth becomes a wide pulse gate,
His heart pumps blood at a video rate.
 
With microsecs and microwaves
And microvolts he fills his days
And when youth's flush has quite declined
He'll be the man with a micromind.
 
This radar man with the passing years
Has growing impedance between his ears
And at last succumbs to a heavy jolt,
Of pulsed reception of a microvolt.
 
The Doctor from his microscope,
To his colleagues turned and softly spoke;
“There's no brain here that I can find,
He's a radar man with a micromind.”


Ms Harris found the text among  the papers of her father, William James (Jim) McClune, who was a Royal Navy officer during WWII, and believes it was typed out in the 40s or possibly early 50s.

Her father was a radio ham before the war when he was growing up in Northern Ireland he continued this at University – he received a first class honours degree in electronic engineering from Queen's University Belfast.  He joined the Royal Navy in 1941 after University.  After the war he worked for a short time for the Post Office in London in telecommunications and then returned to the Royal Navy in the Electrical Branch until he retired in the late 1970s.  He continued as a radio ham during much of that time.



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