[Ham-Mac] Re: History of MacRATT

[Brian Short]

On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Richard Kriss wrote:
> Brian,
>
>> Anybody remember the name of the program before AEA bought it?
>> Or, is the author of it on here, maybe?
>
> I enjoyed reading your history of MacRATT.  I  remember the old days 
> very
> well with the PK-232 and Red Ryder that was replaced by White Knight.  
> John,
> WD1V and I became self-appointed script junkies and we could make WK 
> do just
> about anything with a PK-232.  FYI, I stared the PktMac list of Mac 
> users on
> Packet in HyperCard format updated by packet and WD1V created and still
> maintains MACNET.  The Mac tcpip software was MAC/Net maintained by 
> PA2AGA

I never used White Knight.   I only had RedRyder, but it was a great 
program.
I did also run the TCPIP program that was quite nice with multiple 
windows, etc.

Yes, the name Steve Fine sounds familiar.

My "MacRat" was really just a personal program to attempt to learn more
about the PK-232 (which was all new to me) and to learn Mac programming.
At that time, I had been away from ham radio for 10 years serving in 
the Navy,
going to college, and grad school.

Please don't get the idea that I'm claiming any great accomplishment 
with
my personal program, but I learned a lot.  It was definitely not ready 
for
prime time :)

I remember registering with WD1V and getting some shareware disks
after HyperCard 1.0 came out.

A new job pushed me to the dark side (PCs).  A new son took away all of
my leisure time :)

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