Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!root 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 Lines: 31 Summary: > Article <164@redwood.UUCP>, from rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) +---------------- | +--------------- | | ... | | 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?) --bsa -- Brandon Allbery, decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa, ncoast!bsa@case.csnet (etc.) 6504 Chestnut Road Independence, Ohio 44131 +1 216 524 1416 -- CIS 74106,1032 -=> Does the Doctor make house calls? <=-