[KYHAM] ax.25 and Packet networks.

[N4AOF]

> Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, AX.25 is mostly a dead subject,
at
. . .
> I think that there were a couple of reasons for that.  One is that for
VHF,
> most of those systems typically operated at 1200 bits per second,
half-duplex,
> on a shared channel.  Back then, that was a reasonable communications
> speed,

And that was before the PBBS's took over every available packet
frequency and drove off all the live users.

If there was a Packet BBS anywhere that used the "recommended" settings
that gave live users a chance to operate, it wasn't around here and it
undoubtedly was killed off by the rest of the PBBS's running the
shortest wait times their TNCs could be programmed to use.

When the PBBS system destroyed the possibility of any
keyboard-to-keyboard operation they doomed themselves as well, but it
took them a while to realize that they were just talking to each other.
Eventually ALL that was left were the PBBS's but they had no live users
left and the only thing on any of them was worthless bulletin traffic
moving  from PBBS to PBBS over 300 baud HF links and the occasional
circular loop VHF path.