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Packet Radio, I got involved in it about 1984, 1985. I was running it off of Commodore 128. I had a flat ribbon cable that connected, you know, if you ever use a Commodore 128, it's got a big ribbon cable on the back, and I had that connected to my interface, which allowed me to use the Packet Radio. And back then was the first time I ever sent an email. It was done by computer, but it was on Packet Radio. I sent the email to myself. It went around the world. It went to Europe, and it came back. And then I could tell with the address which notes it used. I could actually see the address where the packet was actually bouncing around from. It was interesting. They didn't have really anything good. We only had one cable for the Internet. I think it was Lonnie. It was a cable that was under the Atlantic Ocean and connected New York City to Europe. So that's all our information for the Packet Radio was using Lonnie and stuff. It was crappy, but it was fun. We didn't have anything else at the time. Yeah, well, you see, Laura was curious about slow scan radio, although she's blind. She wondered, just kind of intrigued, because she could hear the noises that it made through the bands, because it has its whines and squeaks or whatever, kind of like when you listen to a modem, that's what you are doing. She was intrigued that there was slow scan TV, like on meters and the different frequencies. I don't know if they still do that. Yesterday when we talked about the cold bands, part of it would be shared in it, if it were being done. It would be part of more digital work type situations. But I'm not positive. Don't do it. I'm not positive they're still playing with it. Yeah, we were in the house for a while. We had the Apple IIe, the Apple IIgs. I'm not seeing how long, how much long, how far we've come with computers, because the tasks we did with it were eeny meeny, compared to now, where pretty much you run your whole life with it. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. I have a radio on using the IRL-VO that never used the packet radio. That's probably the reason why I bought the Commodore 128, because it used the packet radio. Plus I played games on it. I had games soup. I played games on the Commodore, and then I used it for the packet radio. We've come on quite a bit in the 40 years. It was from 1985 to 25. That was 40 years. We've come quite a bit. It's not as good as I'd like to see it, but it's an improvement.