I remember that too!!! It was a hoot. I think it was Ron won a copy of WF1B.
73
Jim W7RY
----- Original Message -----
From: "FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com>
To: "Kok Chen" <chen@mac.com>; "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Software
> 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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