We've come a long way in ham radio computing
since this early "personal electronic computer", the model Minivac 601,
appeared in the 1968 Allied Radio catalog. Amateur Radio has always been
fertile ground for trying new stuff, building things, and sometimes
even pushing the envelope on technology in general!
Since
the ham shack computer is a well-accepted piece of "gear" these days,
we need to sit down and have a talk about what works. I don't want to
launch a kerfuffle over operating systems. Some of you will prefer
Windows, some will like Mac OS, and a few will snap their suspenders and
stroke their beards while proclaiming some version of Linux to be their
choice. I get that. I've tried all of them at one time or another.
But the fact of the matter is that what we think we know about ham radio
computing might be, well... wrong.
