05-16-14 13:08 Roy Witt wrote to TOM WALKER about Correction to WLW URL

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 RW> Greetings TOM!
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 RW> Silly Little Mail Reader was the best of the offline readers
 RW> when I was a BBS user, way back in 1994...wow, 20 years ago.
 RW> Why havn't you advanced beyond your baby years?

Howdy! Roy,

I like read BBS Messages Offline instead of timing out the BBS and
having to wait a half hour before I could read more Messages on it.

Before I read the TV Typewriters Cookbook and got interested in wanting
to use one of them for RTTY I would listen to the W1AW 18WPM CW
Bulletin Broadcast and type what I heard on my Royal Typewriter.

If my wife called me during those broadcasts I'd ask her to wait until
the broadcast finished because I didn't want to miss any part of it.

I built the Netronics ASCII Keyboard, and their Video Terminal board to
use RTTY.

Another Ham made a RF Modulator for me so I could use a TV Set as a
RTTY Monitor.

I used a portion of a RTTY Decoder circuit project in a issue of
Popular Electronics magazine (IIRC it used two 1458 IC's).

The Audio FSK Keyer used a 555 IC.

I would record the RX audio and the Keyer audio on a cassette recorder
so if my wife called me to do something I could leave the Shack and
replay the tape to see what the RTTY Broadcast or QSO was about when
I came back.

I made my first HF RTTY QSO by typing CQ just after the W1AW RTTY
Broadcast on 20M ended.

On 2M there were some Amateur Radio RTTY BBS's I could use.

In 1984 when I got a Commodore 64 Personal Computer (pc) I began
calling a BBS for Commodore Computers with a 300 baud telephone modem.

I learned there were other BBS's for Apple's, Atair's and IBM PC
Compatiable Computers and called them to learn what I could from them.

I learned about MS-DOS and Windows 3.x by reading messages on
The Volunteer BBS and learned enough to be able to help a friend at
church who had a 386 Gateway 2000 PC with a problem he had with his pc.

Also about that time, where I worked we got my boss's XT to use when He
got a 286, so then I was able to read the manuals and practice the
exercises in the books to learn about PC DOS v2.11.

Later on, I heard about using Digicom Packet with the Commodore 64
computer and started using Packet Radio on 2M.
I didn't have any HF gear in the computer room to use to get on HF
Packet but I enjoyed 2M Packet Radio.

With SLMR I find it easier to select what File I wanted to Save
messages to, and I could search real easily for a particular Tagline
I wanted to use for a message, and I could C&P text from one file into
a Reply Message.

I used MultiMail to read messages that were longer than SLMR could
display, and decided to use it all the time now even though it is
harder for me to select a certain Tagline from the list and the DOS
version doesn't allow C&P when I'm using EDIT.COM for the Editor.

I'm a Old Technology Baby too, I guess.

As Tom says, "If it works don't mess with it.".

... A yer ago I kudnt spel jeanyus now I are won.
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