Oh, I do remember those dos days. I was a bulletonboard freak. I used to 
love those doors. I helped run one in the 90s. I'd love that again.

Carolyn Kj4vt


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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 3:52 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The value of our Blind Hams list

> Tom,
>
> Several blind people were on a completely different listserv out of New 
> York
> when it decided it no longer would support mailing list.  This ICOR server
> was formed and we all moved over and re-established our mailing lists.
> Blind Hams was on that other server, too.  I think I started my list in 95
> or 96.  It was on my BBS before I joined the internet exactly 20 years ago
> today.  Mailing lists were really popular back then because audio chat 
> rooms
> and video chat rooms were not available back then.  My first website, Red
> White and Blue.org was established in 97 and I know this list, and mine,
> were online at least a year, if not more, before then.  When I started
> blind-x, or blind exchange that Ann Parsons now runs, I had over 150 blind
> subscribers in the first 24 hours and it soon averaged 350 to 375.  So,
> these lists grew like wild fire back then and we were all using the online
> email editor called pine back then instead of window platforms.  I'm so 
> hung
> up with DOS, I still, to this day, call Windows DOS half the time.  I had 
> a
> BBS for about 5 years starting January 1 1990 with almost 500 subscribers
> but when we all started going to the internet, I eventually got down to
> about 50 members and shut my BBS down.  You may know that Fido was the 
> phone
> line network we all used back then to connect with local hubs instead of
> satellites.  Thousands of bulletin board systems were phone line linked 
> all
> over the country and the world until the internet really took off.  My 
> first
> modem was 1200 baud, ran on batteries, and I found a BBS software that 
> would
> run on about 400K of disk space so I took my laptop using a pair of 720K
> diskettes and put the BBS software on disk A and the message and download
> area on disk B.  I soon, within a couple of months, bot a larger computer
> with an 80 meg hard drive and got my BBS up and running on January first, 
> as
> I said, of 1990 and it was a lot of fun.  A 15 year old kid had written a
> BBS program called Quick BBS and thousands of guys were running bulletin
> boards across the country.  I think the kid lived here in Denver, too.  I
> won't say, those were the days, because the way the net is now is like 
> going
> from a single wheel broken roller skate to a Roles Royce.  All websites 
> were
> lynx and ran on DOS for the users logging on so everything was text.  So 
> it
> has been fun watching the changes over the years and the same goes for ham
> radio, too.  When I think of the advancements to ham radio over my 48 
> years
> of being on the air, I can't hardly believe it.  Just think of telephones
> with a rotary  dial and paying 75 sents for 3 minutes, if not double that,
> depending upon where you were calling and what time of the day or night.
> You got it for less, 3 minutes I mean, on weekends.  My iPhone is just as
> amazing as my transceiver and you add ehcolink and IRLP and things like 
> that
> to the cell phone, it definitely is a different world.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 12:59 PM
> Subject: Re: The value of our Blind Hams list
>
>
>> Phil:
>>
>> So, just out of curiosity, when exactly did this list get started?
>>
>> I joined back in 2000 or 2001 as the result of a recommendation from  our
>> highly-respected departed friend, Kevin, K7RX.
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators 
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
>> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 2:49 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: The value of our Blind Hams list
>>
>> Ron,
>>
>> I've been on this list since probably day #1 and when I have a question 
>> on
>> just about anything, I always post here first because I've gotten more
>> answers here than just about any place.  I just wish we had more
>> subscribers
>> to widen that data bank of knowledge even further.
>>
>> Phil.
>> K0NX
>>