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This wasn’t even internet. Dial-up. Hardly anyone used TCP/IP or FTP or telnet ( only universities ). At home we all used software with protocols like XMODEM, Y

This wasn’t even internet. Dial-up. Hardly anyone used TCP/IP or FTP or telnet ( only universities ). At home we all used software with protocols like XMODEM, YMODEM, and ZMODEM for file transfer. Everything else was plain ASCII over serial connections with modems between two devices.

mypalmike 7y ago
Ugh I remember trying to dl files using XMODEM at 300 baud. Like maybe 10% of the time it would work. ZMODEM was a huge improvement in reliability.
CalRobert 7y ago
A very good catch! Thanks. Indeed this was not the Internet.