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How we used to marvel at bidirectional transfers. x-modem, y-modem, x-modem, q-modem. I can hear the handshaking as shrilly as they ever were. Good time.
by DEADBEEFC0FFEE 8y ago
How we used to marvel at bidirectional transfers. x-modem, y-modem, x-modem, q-modem. I can hear the handshaking as shrilly as they ever were. Good time.
- fb03 8y agoAnd then came z-modem and we could squeeze an additional bytes/s out of the connection, depending on the content. I remember seeing a steady 4.0kB/s on a 33600 baud USRobotics modem and going "wow we are at peak performance, let's just hope noise line or something doesn't degrade it" heheh good times indeed.
- bluedino 8y agoAt my first computer related job, they had a T1 line. My jaw hit the floor when I downlaoded a driver at 150kB/s 'that was faster than copying a floppy disk'