[Ham-Mac] OT: Older Mac Software Available

[Robert C. Smithwick]

>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

Me  too, Dick. If you find someone that is 
interested in that old stuff, let me know. I hate 
to just 'dump' it!! I think I still have my 
original "Mac"! Jim Maxwell used to collect all 
that old 'stuff' but we lost a lot, in addition 
to Jim himself, when he passed away.

de/smitty/w6cs

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