17 Dec
1998
17 Dec
'98
5:20 p.m.
Now that we seem to have drifted to the topic of Packet radio, I was
wondering if anyone knew where I could pick up an inexpensive box (not sure
what they're called - the packet converter?). Even an old, "obsolete one
would be good, since I was going to try to connect it to a 286 or 8088
laptop (probably 8088 Zenith).
ThAnX
-and-
Happy Holidaze,
--
-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Lawson <jpl15(a)netcom.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: Modem tones over television or radio
Ummm, Bill... you mean the Navy had AX.25 protcol damn near 40
years before Bolt Beranek and Newman....?
Now *Baudot* Teletype over radio...maybe, and I'd like to see that
document, since I love the "green keys" and run RTTY more than voice,
but AFAIK, the Tuscon Amateur Packet Radio club first transmitted
AX.25 over radio in the late 70s / early 80s, and did so only after
the advent of easily-available microprocessors to implement the
Packet Assembler/Disassembler function.
Cheers and Best of the Season to All:
John