HI Ed,

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.

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

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

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


 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.

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




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.

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

 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. ;-)

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

73 de nf5b

Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+