OK, so. Last weekend I was faffing about with trs80gp, trying to get Xenix going on an emulated TRS-80 Model 16, which I did. But there was some software that I

OK, so. Last weekend I was faffing about with trs80gp, trying to get Xenix going on an emulated TRS-80 Model 16, which I did. But there was some software that I wanted to install that only existed in dd'ed copies off floppy disks, which trs80gp didn't recognize as disk images. What to do, what to do. A cursory check revealed that Xenix had uuencode and uudecode! So I uuencoded the disk images on the host system, pasted them into the emulator with its ability to type out entire files at the virtual keyboard, then uudecoded them in the Xenix guest and used Xenix to blit them onto fresh floppy images. Done! I had install disks. I'm sure that Alaithea Moondreemur, the striped-socks-wearing pink-haired unicorn fox, and hir headmates will be along by and by to tell us that uuencode/uudecode are obsolete, insecure, and should not be included in modern distros because, news flash, it's not the 80s anymore and modern applications use 8-bit-clean binary protocols anyway. But this opportunity to get my 2023 Linux to talk to the first Unix I ever used... man, it was a trip!