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|    MIKE POWELL to ED VANCE    |
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|    19 Jan 26 08:48:00    |
      TZUTC: 0000       MSGID: 553.canada@1:2320/195 2dd3d39b       PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/123f2d28a Jul 12 2025 GCC 12.2.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.28-Linux master/123f2d28a Jul 12 2025 GCC 12.2.0       BBSID: UUMOES       CHRS: CP437 2       FORMAT: flowed       > My thinking was using software with the scanner to convert the writing       > (printing) on the page into text.               My scanners didn't have such options (or at least not good ones!) but I am        sure that others probably did.               > It all adds up to Laziness on my part, hopeing the PC would do allthe work of       > entering paves and pages of pc code for Me.From what I can recall it was a       > program in Byte magazine for which direction an antenna should be Pointed       > toward a location.               I wouldn't necessarily call it laziness. Avoiding typos would be another       motivator for such a project. I can remember spending hours typing in TI       Basic programs from magazines or books just to wind up with a typo (or       several) that I never could get tracked down.                Mike       ---        þ BgNet 1.0á12 ÷ RAW: Port 27 / Telnet:26 / ftelnet:80        * Origin: moe's tavern * 1-5028758938 * moetiki.ddns.net:27 (1:2320/195)       SEEN-BY: 105/81 106/201 128/187 129/14 305 153/7715 154/110 218/700       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 134 206 300 307 317 426 428 470       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 705 291/111 292/854 320/219 322/757 396/45 460/58       SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 902/26 2320/0 105 107 195 304 5020/400 5075/35       PATH: 2320/107 105 229/426           |
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