On 06/06/2010 10:13 AM, Richard Webb -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RW> HI Ed,

 RW> On Sun 2038-Jun-06 03:32, Ed Hulett (1:123/789) wrote to Richard Webb:

 RW>>> Been accused of bein' one o' them myself, with my straight
 RW>>> key on the bench over here on the keyboard tray, and my old Hamarlund
 RW>>> receiver behind me.

 EH>>> Heh heh heh... I have an old Nye straight key somewhere around here.
 EH>>> I also have a Bencher Iambic. I haven't touched either for a long
 EH>>> time.

 RW>> Had an old key with the navy knob too until the after
 RW>> Katrina fire.

 EH>> A friend of mine has a collection of old military keys, mostly with
 EH>> leg straps on them. He handled traffic while in the military.

 RW> YEp, my xyl's dad was a Navy radioman in the pacific theater ww2. This
 RW> didn't have the leg strap, but think I had one of those for awhile too.

 EH>>> No old receivers, though. :-)

 RW> THis Hamarlund was a freebie, guy wanted to clear out some
 RW> space in his shack, and it *does* work.
 RW> 

Cool!

 EH>>> Wow! I'm amazed he's still at it. I wonder if he still has the 2400
 EH>>> baud modem on his system. :-)

 RW>> I"d have to look through last year's logs, but think I at
 RW>> least got a 14.4 connect when I crash mailed him. I don't
 RW>> think I've seen "connect 2400" in my logs since i came back
 RW>> up back in '08 or whenever it was .

 EH>> Heh heh... I used to give him a hard time about running a 2400 when
 EH>> everyone else was running at least a 14.4. In fact, he was still at
 EH>> 2400 the last time I dialed into his system and I had a 56k by then.
 EH>> That was several years ago. I don't have a phone line hooked up to
 EH>> any of my boxes now.

 RW> Lots of people don't. IF they ever improve the system out
 RW> at this end of the little town I"ll probably dsl in, but
 RW> I"ll keep a modem on this old box and use it.

I have cable here and I'll never go back to dial up.

700mb CD image in 10-15 minutes max. compared to several hours.

 RW> 


 EH>> I had a board up for a short time, but never really did anything
 EH>> with it. A friend and I set up a box with 7 CDROMS connected to it
 EH>> with CDs full of shareware and freeware. We never did do FIDO.

 RW> We had one of those around Burlington, the multiple cd
 RW> thing, full of shareware of all different types. Central
 RW> Iowa where I was the big points enabler as a mail only had a real
 RW> diverse scene. Burlington, in southern Iowa when I
 RW> moved there had maybe three real high quality systems, the
 RW> gamers' and trekkies' board, a genealogy board, and this guy with the
 RW> huge shareware cd collection. A fourth brought in
 RW> a couple of qwk nets. I got the gamer board into fido
 RW> first, followed by the local genealogy board, then some
 RW> others, and still served a lot of points. I sure had a lot
 RW> of fun, and part of that fun was introducing newbies to how
 RW> to use emailable search engines and other good stuff. IN
 RW> fact, I can thank the bbs hobby for finding my current xyl
 RW> >

Interesting story. It sounds like you got a good deal. :-)

 RW>>> THese days you can't get folks interested in something like
 RW>>> that. NO instant gratification available.

 EH>>> Yep.
 RW>> I really do sound like an old fart I guess .

 EH>> I did a "Hit Record on your Birthday" app on facebook
tonight and
 EH>> the hit record was Tony Bennett "Rags to Riches." I'm old. ;-)

 RW> dItto, and TOny's still out there doing it, and from a sound tech guy
 RW> who did a show for him a couple years ago still
 RW> puts on quite a performance.
 RW> aT least last I heard he was still doing it, and that was a
 RW> couple or three years ago iirc.

I had to listen to the song again (I've heard it many times before because
my parents were big fans) and it brought back some memories.

Ed

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