[OZAPRS] VK2WI packet closure

[Gerard Hill]

Thanks, Dave.

I'm curious about your AR article on VK2RWI. Any idea which edition, or 
even which year? Online summaries go back as far as Jan 2007, and I 
expect publication happened well before then.

Cheers ... Gerard, VK2IO

On 10/12/2010 8:44 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> This is indeed bad news; VK2RWI (as it was then known) was one of the
> first in the Sydney area, along with VK2XY and VK2OP etc.
>
> I actually ran one of the first systems (along with then VK2TSO) before
> Barry took it over; it was an old Commodore PC-20[*] in those days.  We
> lobbied heavily for VK2 to get into this new-fangled packet stuff, and
> Andy VK2AAK ran the first system on behalf of VK2, first from his place
> then the AEM office (remember them?) before moving to Dural (and sometimes
> from my place when it needed a major upgrade).
>
> I wrote an article for AR mag many years ago, describing how the BBS came
> to be.
>
> Sic transit gloria mundi.
>
> [*]
> A strange machine.  We had the older one, with a two-piece motherboard.
> It ran most packet software, but not all DOS software (it wasn't a true
> "PC" as such; it was sort of halfway between the 8088 and the 8086, but
> we did score a V20).  The most annoying bit was the location of the power
> switch; it was a push-button switch, right at keyboard level...  Steve
> VK2TSO got sick of rebuilding the file system, and moved the switch to the
> back panel.
>
> -- Dave