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From: root@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Stargate Deployment: possibilities
Message-ID: <622@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 20:29:20 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.622
Posted: Sat Mar  2 20:29:20 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 01:48:51 EST
References: <598@ncoast.UUCP> <164@redwood.UUCP>
Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: North Coast Programming, Cleveland
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Summary: 

> Article <164@redwood.UUCP>, from rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
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| +---------------
| | ...
| | Now, as for alternatives:
| | Hamnet sounds like a good idea; someone should try it out.  Can you imagine
| | a tiny inews program for a Commodore 64 with an RTTY interface?  :-}
| +---------------
| 
| I think the hams have leap-frogged you...
| 
| Modern hams are using TAPR boards (Tucson Amateur Packet Radio), with far more
| advanced techniques than RTTY, which was typically 75 baud. TAPR runs at 1200
| baud (with experimental units already working at 9600), uses the AX.25 packet
| protocol (modified X.25). There are a lot of digital repeaters ("digipeaters")
| out there already, and you can send packets from the SF Bay Area to San Diego
| with only 6 hops (soon to be three). From what I read, the digipeaters tend
| to use Xerox 820s, not Commodore 64s.
+---------------

Uh huh.  And show me a TAPR board for a C-64.  I'm talking about netnews for
all (but they *can't* post!  :-); if I had meant restriction to Xerox 820's, I
would never have dragged the Commodore 64 into the discussion.  Popular avail-
ability of "netnews" could well be a source of support (and maybe revenue?
Ads for contributions between the messages, a` la NPR?)

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