Subj : Introduction ...
To   : AKAcastor
From : Ed Vance
Date : Sun Mar 03 2024 15:36:30


Howdy! again,
I built that Netronics ASCII Video terminal and Keyboard in the 70's.
In 1984 I bought a Commodore 64 PC.

I can't remember the programs name, I'm thinking it was called Digicom.
I may be wrong.

I used the C=64 on 2 Meters Packet.
There was one Ham who lived in the hills that operated Packet on 2 Meters and
on one of the high frequency bands.
His IBM PC had a Packet BBS program used for listing all of the packets
received on either hand and to forward new packets out on both frequencies.

Local Hams logged on to that BBS could Read and Reply to those messages, most
of which came on the HF band.
The best of both worlds, Local and World Wide packet messages!

The Netronics Terminal allowed me to use 60 or 74 baud RTTY and 110 ASCII
(maybe 300 ASCII too,can't recall).

One RTTY Contact in particular I remember very well, as the other Station was
sending text to me, over on the left of the screen, each line started with
non-alphabetic characters.

When his message to me was complete those characters on the beginning of the
lines made an image of a house that had a beam antenna aat the top.

A friend who also used a C=64 had a ELF Computer on one board.
The ELF had a 16 Key Keypad and used a RCA 1802 CPU.
I think the ELF came out B4 the 6502 KIM's did.

Before I bought a C=64 he let me take the ELF home and play with it.
In one of my magazines there was a STAR TREK program for the ELF.
When I RAN the code a image of The Enterprise came on the screen of my TV Set.

I am not on the air now (the wife didn't like the looks of the Coax wires that
came out of a bedroom and went up into the attic, and out to where my
Antenna(s) are.    [GRIN]

I guess enuf of me is enuf.
Your Turn.
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