Xref: utzoo comp.os.cpm:5105 rec.radio.amateur.misc:1710 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!qiclab!omen!caf From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: IRV HOFF DEAD Keywords: IRV HOFF dead Message-ID: <78@omen.UUCP> Date: 14 Apr 91 00:55:32 GMT References: <3771@astroatc.UUCP> Organization: Omen Technology INC Lines: 26 Sad to read that W6FFC is now a Silent Key. I knew Irv from the late 70's, when he pioneered integration of PCs (Heathkit H-89, etc.) with Ham RTTY. One of his inventions as I recall was an extended RTTY code, with LTRS-NULL shifting to lower case. Irv was a leader in the RCPM movement that paved the way for today's BBS community. He developed IMP (Irv's Modem Program) which was for many years the culmination of assembly language comms programs for CP/M. Irv worked tirelessly to help users bring up comms programs on their CP/M machines, no two of which supported the same comms API. I still remember Irv sending HEX program dumps over 20 Meter RTTY to fellow hams back in the 70's. 73... Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software" 17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD Portland OR 97231 503-621-3406 TeleGodzilla:621-3746 FAX:621-3735 CIS:70007,2304 Genie:CAF -- "Many such [diet] programs proffer treatment as though it were established as effective and safe. Nothing in the results published by research programs authorizes anyone to make such claims." -William Bennett, Harvard Medical School Health Letter