We have FPAC switches out in the swamp here in FL, and at many other sites, these switches use KISS TNC's because they were originally ROSE switch sites, we installed FPAC put in KISS eproms and off they go. The cost of the site was just adding the computer, going to some other solution would have probably driven the site off of the air, and we need to keep those sites up. They do not have that much problems with the KISS TNC, and the cost of going to something else would probably have made the whole site too costly to change at all. By way the computers were donated or otherwise scrounged so the cost there was minimal or none B-} I am sure there are many other places in a similar condition, hams (in the USA at least) are notoriously 'cheap' and usually the whole mess is born by only a small number of people, even though there are boat loads of users. The usual issue is that it is a feebee, you try and get them to anty up $$ to help pay and they scream and claw at you, so you make do with what you have... B-b On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 10:19:36 +0100, Gerd wrote: >Hello Jens, hello all, > >[...] > >> Hmmm, are KISS TNCs still in use someplace (seriously)? > >What other chances do you have to work with a TNC under Linux other than in >the KISS mode? I guess there are still a lot of TNC users out there (think of >TNC3 or TNC4). And yes, there are really quite some people using the good old >TNC2. Those thingies can be easily adapted to 9k6 or even more (TNC3) when >approproate modems are installed. > >And, if one has a TNC satisfactorily running, why consider dropping it? Most >of them have been really expensive for hobbyists. > >Cheers, 73 > > >Gerd > >-- >Gerd Roethig >Universit�t Leipzig, Medizinische Klinik u. PK I >Johannisallee 32, 04103 Leipzig >Tel. (0341) 97 12622, Fax (0341) 97 12515 Chuck Hast e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- FPAC ---- www.qsl.net/fpac/
