Subj : HAM
To : BRUCE WILSON
From : Roy Witt
Date : Fri Jun 02 2000 09:26 am
Hello BRUCE.
01 Jun 00 15:31, you wrote to me:
RW>> publication here that you may have heard of, ComputerEdge; The
RW>> computer guru who answers technical questions owns a cabin on
RW>> that mountain and the guy to whom I sold the repeater, placed it
RW>> in the basement of his cabin.
BW> It seems now that ComputerEdge might've had a BBS which was one of
BW> the many I called via PC Pursuit from the San Diego outdials?
That's right. If you went to the page where 'Digital Dave' would reply
to computer questions, this is the person I'm speaking of.
Coincidentally, his real name is Roy and he's also a HAM.
RW>> Very true. Not many who build these days.
BW> It seems hams built their own equipment in the days when there
BW> wasn't much difference between it and factory built, long before
BW> printed circuits and LSICs, when everybody used tube sockets, tubes,
BW> capacitors, resistors, and terminal strips, all individually wired
BW> and soldered.
And most of their parts came from the scrap that the commercial
manufacturers threw out or sold by quantity in large buckets.
... Early HAMs built their own gear to fill in the gaps.
--- Twit(t) Filter v2.1 (C) 2000
* Origin: Kicking Back, Six Paydays Included (1:10/22)
