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