home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   WIN95      Chat about Windows 95, 98, ME systems      13,597 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 12,757 of 13,597   
   Ed Vance to Ben Ritchey   
   Worldtime.com   
   02 Oct 16 18:37:00   
   
   www.worldtime.com   
      
   I was looking around the Federal Aviation Administration webspages trying   
   to find a Article (or Image) about a United States map marked off in   
   Sections (Grids) and found the worldtime website that has a "Sun Time" tab   
   on it, that looks like what Sidekick would show me on my Windows 95 computer.   
      
   Around 1954 one of my friends asked me if I wanted to go with him to a   
   meeting at the Ground Observers Corps (GOC) Filter Center that was a   
   U.S. Air Force program.   
      
   In the room I saw a wood Plotting Table that had a map of the area about   
   100 Miles all around my city.   
      
   Each Square was marked with two letters, EJ was the Grid that showed where   
   my city was located.   
      
   Amateur Radio uses a Grid Square method to indicate where on the Map My   
   (or Another Ham Radio Licensee) is located, but this isn't the Map I was   
   looking for.   
      
   When I was in the Navy, one of the Officers had a Map of the U.S.A. that   
   was marked off in Grids and it showed my home located in the EJ square,   
   like it showed on the Plotting Table at the GOC Filter Center back home.   
      
   I didn't find the Map I was looking for but I did find the worldtime page   
   and thought I'd mention it to You since we talked about the Sidekick program   
   on my old Win95 pc.   
      
   Maybe someone reading this would know a URL where I could find the Map   
   of the U.S. that I'm looking for.   TIA   
      
      
   ... Have you checked your smoke detector batteries & Fire Ext, LATELY?!   
   --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49   
   --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux   
    * Origin: CCO BBS - capcity2.synchro.net - 1-502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca