Ed Vance wrote to Supa_Scoopa Subject: Re: BBS over Ham Radio

 EV> In the late 1970's there were some Hams in the Louisville,
 EV> Kentucky & Southern Indiana area who operated AFSK BAUDOT and ASCII
 EV> Radioteletype BBS's on Two Meters using their Apple ][ and Atari
 EV> PC's.

I ran a 20 meter mailbox system for many years after I got into ham radio in
1979.  I started in the 80's some time using the HAL DSR-3100, (Later the HAL
DSK-3100 when they added a discs drive.  I was called an MSO, which stood for
Message Storage Option.  It was a store and forward system.  I was on 20
meters about 14.0875 If I remember correctly.  You would get on with your
RTTY System and type MSOAPI.  My system would come one, welcome you, and you
could read and store messages.  Sort of like a simple Packet BBS.  There were
a number of us on frequency, so you could leave a message on my machine for
a friend who you did not have propagation to, he could check in read the
mesages and leave you a reply.  You could write and erase your messges.  I also
put the ARRL Bulletins in and other messages of interest that you could read
but only I could erase.  It was a great group of guys and we had other MSOs on
from SD, IL, FL, Guatamala and even a few in Europe.  the HAL Corporation was
and still is located in Urbana, IL.  HAL was also the name of the computer
in 2001 Space Oddesy built in, yes, Urban, IL,  But Bill Henry always
claimed that his company pre dateed the 1868 movie by 10 years.  Not sure if
Bill sill owns HAL,  Bill is also a ham radio op, (I forgot his call).

Fun times back then RTTY was and stll it my favorite digital mode.

-73-

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