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<p>I was a member of the LA Homebrew Computer Club back then. <br>
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<p>Jobs and Woz used to come by with that odd 6502 machine. We
almost had 8080 tattoos, then Zilog came along.... <br>
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<p>And 73 was talking about RTTY and I used a paper tape punch as my
input to an AR33 teletype machine to do early storage as cassette
tapes could be unreliable. PIP RDR:=PUN:<filename>. Apple
booted with a shoe typing PR#6.<br>
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<p>Now I have a DRAWS daughter board on a Raspberry Pi that can do
stunning things that wouldn't've been dreamed of back then. <br>
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<p>Great pic, BTW!!!</p>
<p>Tom</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/20/19 4:40 PM, Tara Calishain
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<div dir="ltr">Your writeup here reminds me that I wrote up the
addition of 73 Magazine into the Internet Archive back in 2011
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<div>I remember that because just flipping through the available
archives took me to a picture of a very, very, very young
Steve Jobs (1976): </div>
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<div>That was a fun discovery. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:33
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote">Fellow Guilders,<br>
<br>
A few Fellow Gulders are amateur radio licensees, known as
hams. An <br>
interest in radio & communications evolves into taking the
government <br>
tests which grants you radio operating privileges. The
electronics are <br>
the same no matter what country you take the test, and the
international <br>
agreements give large reciprocity. Understanding radios,
owning them, <br>
and communicating are the goals, but manifests in myriad ways.<br>
<br>
This past weekend marked the Dayton Hamvention, now held in
Xenia OH (SE <br>
of Dayton). More than 20,000 people from across the planet,
99.9% hams, <br>
descend on the area to pursue their amateur radio interests,
which are <br>
starkly varied. A few of you know that I'm the president of
the local <br>
Bloomington Amateur Radio Club (BARC), and an ham licensed as
W9YW. I <br>
also have non-commercial radio pursuits, a different thread.<br>
<br>
I was also a volunteer in the Media section at the Hamvention.
It's been <br>
going longer than NCC, COMDEX, or even CES. It's changed
little, and <br>
it's changed dramatically. These are radio geeks that come to
see new <br>
stuff, concepts, and very importantly, to sell and swap gear
to try new <br>
things or add to their collections of Stuff.<br>
<br>
Hamvention is much like a State Fair for radio geeks, but
radio is a <br>
wide and sometimes wickedly deep ocean of activities. It's
still around, <br>
and as tech journalists, our roots are here.<br>
<br>
Long ago, there was 73 Magazine, which spun off into Byte,
which evolved <br>
rapidly into the tech journalism we oldsters used to cover as
pre-social <br>
media information dissemination, knowledge transfer, and early
tech <br>
journalism. 73 is a number that also means "regards" in
telegraphy. <br>
Morse code is no longer required to pass an amateur license
test, <br>
although it's still surprisingly popular. It's arguable that
Wayne <br>
Greene, 73's editor, is part of the root of the DNA where we
come from.<br>
<br>
* * *<br>
<br>
Gazing upon the hordes (and hoarders) of equipment, its a sea
of <br>
baseball caps with amateur callsigns and vendor logos. Hams
from more <br>
than 40 nations come to the Hamvention. They saturate the
Dayton area. I <br>
arrived in my ancient Airstream Argosy to stay on the
fairgrounds for <br>
the three days of the fair. There are forums on emergency <br>
communications, AMSAT/amateur satellite, digital modes (in
ways, still <br>
in the 1200 baud modem stage), but also how to talk across the
planet on <br>
the cheap-- without a smartphone-- to people where
international <br>
boundaries don't exist.<br>
<br>
All political spectra are represented as well. There were MAGA
hats <br>
along with (un)concealed carry. Sheriffs/Public
Safety/DHS/Salvation <br>
Army/EMT/FD and more attend, as hams carry the messages when
other forms <br>
of communications fail. And there are the cadres of engineers,
<br>
inventors, the maker communities, the open sorcerers, and the
huge DIY <br>
communities. Cooperation breaks all political and social
barriers with <br>
the common denominator of service, creativity, and the
boundaries of how <br>
radio works.<br>
<br>
A local (to Bloomington) guy that works for Google is involved
in <br>
SATNOG, which makes a handy antenna which, aided by computer
imputs, <br>
tracks an antenna array as satellites pass overhead unseen, so
that one <br>
can send/receive messages (voice, Morse/CW, and digital).
There are the <br>
Raspberry Pi/Arduino and hacker board makers that also ally
talking to <br>
sats. Or you can find programs where school kids talk to
astronauts on <br>
the ISS via hardware that costs less than $100. Yes, the
conversations <br>
are short as the ISS disappears beyond the horizon quickly.<br>
<br>
We do this for three days. I am still sunburned, as much is
outside in <br>
the open grounds of the Greene County Fairgrounds. There are
acres of <br>
flea market with all imaginable radio gear, including pre-WW2
gear that <br>
still works-- although there is much gear that does not. There
are <br>
electronic parts, metal parts, old modems, Windows 3.1 5.25"
disk sets, <br>
teletypes, IBM Selectrics modified to be teletypes, and many
things that <br>
were built with tubes/valves. I was looking for an obscure
antenna. It <br>
retails for $600. A used one was available for $65. It will
take some <br>
cleaning before it works. Refurbishing gear is a sport for
many, <br>
including me-- save that I don't touch old computer gear as
there are no <br>
speed limits imposed on computing. Radio spectrum is shared,
and has <br>
boundaries.<br>
<br>
As a kid, I learned electronics and fixed tube-based TVs and
radios, <br>
hi-fi gear, and grew up with tubes and transistors. I had also
read a <br>
book on computer theory at age 9, and so they've never been
totally <br>
mysterious, either. All of this stuff makes sense to me, and
there is so <br>
very much I don't know. There is plentiful trash in the flea
markets, <br>
which are some people's treasures. Happy smiles upon finding
these <br>
treasures abounded, big gleeful ones. Many walk around the
grounds with <br>
walkie talkies called "HT's" alerting others to interesting
finds, or <br>
where to get Chinese food. You never hear angry words, ever,
never. <br>
Snickers and snark is plentiful, because my stuff is red hot,
and your <br>
stuff is doodly-squat-isms, must abound.<br>
<br>
There is a crusty, barnacled contingent of old-timers, some
wise, some <br>
wise-asses. They can be thoroughly pompous, condescending, yet
<br>
thoroughly polite with a practiced delivery that reminds me of
the <br>
British Class system, and other times reminds me of Get Off My
Lawn. <br>
There really is wisdom there, should you take the time to
chisel away <br>
the barnacles, and see the wisdom through the clouds of
ancient eyes, <br>
ears, and minds. This is an older group, but a younger group
of <br>
makers/hackers and visionaries are entering this hobby in
different <br>
ways, giving it new blood, sometimes with easily-wounded thin
skins.<br>
<br>
But they're all geeks, nerds, and radioheads. Me, too. And,
$deity <br>
willing, I'll be there next year, again.<br>
<br>
73<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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