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KB2VXA > BBS 26.12.13 17:15l 39 Lines 1799 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 49054_VK6ZRT
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Subj: Re: VK2AWZ > How many?
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From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : BBS@WW
Hi Dave and all,
In keeping with something you said, being we share the same BBS I can say Bob
has users you can count on one hand with fingers left over, sad.
When it comes to new packet software or picking up the slack to upgrade
Winpac nobody has bothered to carry the flame that would be an equal disaster
for the Olympics! There is a work around such as the route I took, Having Win
7 Ultimate for the primary OS I have XP on the virtual machine to support
Winpack Telnet mode (I am now without antennas to connect with my old radio
only BBS/node) because it emulates old Windoze and DOS. BTW, I don't use Win
8 even though most of the bugs have been worked out (Microsoft has a bad
habit of using us as lab rats which is why it reports back unless you disable
that little spy) because it's designed for a touch screen I don't have and a
pain without one.
You're quite right, Roger was a wizard designing Winpack with all of its
features, most of which I don't use (;->) because I'm old school using it as
a dumb terminal. The old Windows Terminal had it beat for the ability to
upload and download to any external directory but I digress. Eh, I can see
why new users don't source Winpack being written in C++ which confounds all
but the ubergeeks but that's another digression.
Keen packet users? I used to be a remote sysop for that regional BBS I
mentioned, not that I was any good at it, but you've seen those Die Hard
movies, haven't you? Well, that's all from here, we'll keep on fighting to
the end, we are the Champions..........
Forgive me Freddie Mercury wherever you are.
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 26-Dec-2013 at 14:50 GMT
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