Date   : Sun, 14 Apr 1991 00:55:32 GMT
From   : sdd.hp.com!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!qiclab!omen!caf@ucsd.edu (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Subject: Re: IRV HOFF DEAD

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...

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