Subj : Morning
To   : Emptymind
From : W8ZZU
Date : Thu Oct 21 2004 06:19 pm

  Re: Morning
  By: Emptymind to All on Wed Oct 20 2004 10:55 pm

 > Well I was looking over the old hobbies list, and looked up BBS's. Wow how
 > things have changed over the past 10 years.
 > 
 > Then I look, and find that the BBS system has a newsgroup interface for read
 > the message bases. Where was this stuff 10 years ago when i was forking out
 > 400$ for a 14Kbps modem!! let alone the 300bps one i started with about 15 -
 > years ago.
 > 
 > So i hook into the nntp feed.. and find that my 3 biggest hobbies.. Internet
 > (Im a Sysadmin), the BBS, and HAM radio.. all in one married state.. I think
 > am about to cry in happiness..
 > 
 > (my wife reading over my shoulder states 'you are offically a geek' to which
 > reply.. 'duh')
 > 
 > Hopefully I will get a copy of the bbs running, (the linux install is not qu
 > as straight forward as the windows version it would appear) and I can imagin
 > that it wont be long before I try connecting to the system over a MixW2 IP
 > radio link.. hmmmm.. gonna need a new HF antenna i think.. hehehehe..
 > 
 > 73's
 > James - VA7MTY

Welcome...  nice to see other Hams getting involved..

Jason - Whiskey Eight Zulu Zulu Uniform




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