05-16-14 13:08 Roy Witt wrote to TOM WALKER about Correction to WLW URL   
      
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    RW> Greetings TOM!   
   -snip-   
    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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