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Almost as important as the modem was the transfer protocols for BBSes. While Zmodem was generally king of the hill: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMODEM http
by throw0101a 5y ago
Almost as important as the modem was the transfer protocols for BBSes. While Zmodem was generally king of the hill:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMODEM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMODEM
Later BiModem and especially HS/Link built on top of that:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiModem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiModem
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HS/Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HS/Link
Being able to download and upload files at the same time really helped make things more time efficient. From downloading files from BBS door games (e.g., Trade Wars 2002):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS_door https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS_door
To one's mail and forum postings via QWK (and SOUP for offline Usenet reading):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_(file_format) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_(file_format)
- jking79 5y agoIceModem was always the one that I remembered that was a good alternative to Zmodem
- freefolks 5y agoHS-Link was the best. You could upload and download at the same time which with zmodem you could not. Also, if you were using hs-link, you were definitely not downloading "tradewars 2002" tradew4rez maybe
- lamontcg 5y agoBy 1990 I was in university with 10BaseT available. So my peak modem experience was probably 9600 baud modems with Zmodem for transfer protocols. I think there were 14.4 modems available then but I don't recall that I owned one.
- op00to 5y agoI got to experience so many different remote access methods in my life - modems to bbs, direct dial to Unix system, slirp on said Unix system, dedicated 56k modem to home network, upgraded to dsl, finally college and Ethernet. So many discarded technologies…
- throw0101a 5y ago> slirp on said Unix system, Byte magazine, in their February 1997 issue, had a look at the "new" PPP protocol (p. 55): * https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199702_Byte_Magazine_Vol_22-02_Your_E-Mail_is_Obsolete.pdf https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199702_Byte_Magazine_Vol_2...