[AMRadio] You might be (and probably are) an Amateur Radio operator, if:

[Bob Macklin]

Now with Windows you don't even have to spell correctly. Just point and 
click.

Remember 8 character file names and 3 character extensions?

I was involved with the early stages of CP/M.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
<amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] You might be (and probably are) an Amateur Radio 
operator, if:


>
>
> On 3/3/2011 11:10 AM, Geoff Edmonson wrote:
>> On 03/02/2011 05:33 PM, rbethman wrote:
>>> APRS - The abomination "Initially" called *Packet Radio*
>>>
>>> Renamed to APRS, Amateur Packet Radio Service.
>> Automatic Position Reporting System
>>
> Okay, "missed" one.
>>> The purpose of which *I*
>>> saw as a misplaced piece of technology when the first "TNCs" came out.
>>> I had a friend that was a licensed Technician Class, whom had to rush to
>>> my house and have me help him connect his 2mtr rig to the TNC and a
>>> computer.
>> It's another form of communication.  Digital as it may be, it is the
>> successor to RTTY, AMTOR, FSK.
>> A technology (packet) that emerged about the same time that acoustical
>> modems were connecting computers via digital communications over
>> phone-lines...
>>
>>> It took about 2 to 3 minutes of watching this "method" of
>>> *communications* to decide I wanted NOTHING to do with it!
>>>
>>> If you aren't in the "loop", don't sweat it!  You didn't miss ANYTHING!
>>>
>> As the years and technology progressed, digital communications has
>> evolved and packet radio was very much the front-runner to the very
>> technology you are using NOW, Bob, for internet access.  So, in a weird,
>> twisted, warped sort of way, whether you realize it or not, you -are-
>> using digital modes to communicate... even email ;-)
> Geoff - I had a fair bit of involvement working with the folks that
> built the *IMP*, (Internet Message Protocol).  Tied the DoE into
> Lawrence Livermore Labs, Los Alamos National Labs, Sandia, and the 103
> DoE sites.  Also brought up and got going the DNS server for DoE HQ.
>
> We added an X.25 "system" to perform some other tests dealing with OSI.
> Was one of those that met at NIST once a quarter to develop *GOSIP*,
> FIPS-146.  The plan for implementing Government Open Systems
> Implementation ?Plan?. (Not sure exactly what the "P" was for any more.
>
> When I began, "internet" messaging was ALL conducted on UNIX, (All of
> its variants and flavors), using the sendmail process.
>
> Yep!  Been there done that!  It was all black screens with green
> characters, and knowing WHAT commands to use to start it, end it, (the
> message), and the Send it.
>
> All way old ancient hysterical records and past doings.
>
> Bob - N0DGN
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