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11 months agoMy first compsci course was on a PDP/11. On RSTS/E. On a paper teleprinter console.
Good times.
My first compsci course was on a PDP/11. On RSTS/E. On a paper teleprinter console.
Good times.
Mastodon, Lemmy, Bookwrym.
Spending more time on Lemmy than Mastodon lately.
The amount of consumer pressure within ham radio can be larger than you think. HF rigs can go for thousands of dollars, with VHF/UHF gear up there too.
Yes there are a lot of far less expensive ways to enjoy amateur radio. And I really should get my too-long unused cheap rig out of storage and do some of them, like digital modes on a computer over HF or satellite with a homebrew antenna and my old analog HTs.
P.S. It’s ham not HAM. It has never been an acronym so it should never be capitalized. Ham radio at the beginning of a sentence just follows normal English language capitalization rules.
73 from now actually old and apparently grumpy OM