In a message dated 07-10-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GM Ed,   
      
   EV> You are right, I can't read the M$ help files in XP with LIST.   
   EV> I took a look at NotePad's files ending with .CHM .CHW and .HLP and   
   EV> they can't be read in a ASCII viewer.   
      
   That's what I recalled.   
      
   EV> At least I thought of You when I was looking at that old file.   
      
   TNX for the thought ;o)   
      
   EV> My first BBS experience was on some local 2 Meter Ham Radio RTTY   
   EV> BBS's.   
      
   When the local clup set up a 1200 Hz box here I was already far away   
   from such low speed transmissions/receptions.   
      
   EV> In March 1984 I got a C=64 computer and 300 baud Modem.   
      
   I started at 1200 baud on the phone line and as the modems got faster   
   I upgraded them along the way, ending up at K56Flex, 56kb/s.   
      
   EV> Two questions.   
      
   EV> When did You start running Your BBS using DOS/DesQview?   
      
   I started my first BBS (Sunny Island) in 1988 with an english BBS   
   software and installed DesqView v2.2 in 1989.   
      
   1992 I bought and installed PCBoard v14.5 and renamed the BBS to   
   HAM-BOX BBS and upgraded DV to v2.4 and QEMM to v6.0.   
      
   EV> And was it on a BBS Network then?   
      
   No, I joined Fidonet 1995.   
      
      
   73 de Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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