It sure made it possible (read: easy) for me to get into rtty.
I also enjoyed meeting him at Dayton.
Can't remember, at the dinner did Ray win a copy of Writelog or was it Ron
won a copy of WF1B?
I do remember it was funny!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kok Chen" <chen@mac.com>
To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Software
>
> On Jan 28, 2009, at 1/28 8:49 AM, rick darwicki wrote:
>
>> I have a shoebox full of purchased software that is no longer
>> supported. I paid anywhere from $30-$100 for a lot of programs that
>> became useless as Windows and hardware changed and the makers no
>> longer supplied updates. I don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about
>> MixW at this point.
>
> I have not owned a "PC" for quite a while now, and have never been
> able to run RITTY or WF1B.
>
> However, I appreciated WF1B's effort so much, I purchased a copy of
> it just as a show of support even though I knew I could never run
> it. The floppy and documentation remained until it was tossed
> together with many things during a QTH move.
>
> IMHO, WF1B was singularly responsible for bringing RTTY contesting
> from the Gutenberg age into the 20th century.
>
> 73
> Chen, W7AY
>
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