{"id":1241,"date":"2023-04-30T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2023-04-30T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T19:32:19","slug":"packet-radio-like-its-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/packet-radio-like-its-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Packet Radio Like it&#8217;s 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mixing two hobbies today doing some packet radio with my TRS-80 Model 4 and my Tandy 1000 RL. The Model 4 is an 8-bit computer with just 64 kilobytes of RAM. The 1000 has a 16-bit 8086 CPU with a whopping 768 kilobytes of RAM. The average computer today has at least 8 gigabytes of RAM, or roughly 8 million kilobytes. How far we\u2019ve come.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1242\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0219-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1242\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1242\" src=\"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0219-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"TRS-80 Model 4\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0219-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0219-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0219-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0219-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0219-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0219-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0219-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TRS-80 Model 4 manufactured in 1984<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1243\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0220-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1243\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1243\" src=\"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0220-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Tandy 1000 RL\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0220-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0220-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0220-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0220-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/avarc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0220-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tandy 1000 RL manufactured in 1988<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixing two hobbies today doing some packet radio with my TRS-80 Model 4 and my Tandy 1000 RL. The Model 4 is an 8-bit computer with just 64 kilobytes of RAM. The 1000 has a 16-bit 8086 CPU with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/packet-radio-like-its-1984\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-modes","tag-packet-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avarc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}