[Ham-Mac] OT: Older Mac Software Available

[Dick Kriss]

On Sunday3/15/09 2:59 PM, "Dino Papas, KLØS" <kl0s at cox.net> wrote:

> For all you connoisseurs of old Macs....

Sad to say but some of us have an attic full of that stuff....
including a boxed up Mac Plus with and external floppy drive. I
recall booting from the internal drive and you could run and
store everything you could think of on one or two floppies.

Ham radio was fun in 1986 with Red Ryder that was the father
of White Knight.  John, WD1V and I maintained a HyperCard
stack called PktMacs that could be updated via HF packet at
300 baud.  The stack contained a card of every know ham that
had a Mac and was into packet or RTTY at the time. RTTY was
all done with terminal programs and TNC's until Steve Fine
released his shareware program called PacketMac that was
later sold to AEA as MacRATT.  It was great program until taken
over by someone else and then orphaned when AEA went out
of business.

Dino I know how you feel getting rid of the old stuff.  Getting
rid of the PK-232 and going  from FSK to AFSK and sound
card technology was a big change but I have no regrets.

I hope you find a good home for classic software.

73 Dick AA5VU