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VK6BE > PACKET 27.11.11 11:04l 29 Lines 1288 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : EC0187VK6BE
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Subj: Re: VK6BE > before Winpack
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From: VK6BE@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : PACKET@WW
I'm not sure but I don't think that was the name of the first packet
program I used. It is a long time ago. I was still working then and I have
been retired now for 23 years or so.
There was another program besides TPK I used at about the same time. Can't
remember the name of it but it had got up to version 6.
Headache medicine? Who dispensed that ? You? That's what gave me the
headache. Ribbit!
Bob VK6BE.
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It was Multicom you're thinking of, about the most popular of the early
digital communications software having AX25, FAX and one I don't recall
on the floppy. Yeah, they worked well enough but my preference was
Terminal in Win V3.1.1 because you could write all kinds of scripts and
command strings for it, plus it had the advantage of allowing transfer of
data to and from any subdirectory on the HD.
Uh Bob, look inside Winpack and you'll find TPK in there. No, the
software isn't dumb, the terminal is! I guess you don't remember the old
terms now disused, the terminal extension of a mainframe or central PC is
a dumb terminal.
Winpack gave you headaches? I distinctly remember you stubbornly refused
to take your headache medicine and passed your headaches on to the rest
of us. (Well, you brough it up.)
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