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Yeah or, if both of the computers had modems, you could even upload a file to a BBS and download it with the other computer. This was one area where some cross
by cameldrv 3y ago
Yeah or, if both of the computers had modems, you could even upload a file to a BBS and download it with the other computer.
This was one area where some cross-microcomputer standards were actually coming together. You had:
1. RS-232
2. V.22 and V.22bis modems (higher speed wouldn't standardize for a number of years later)
3. Bell System Telephone lines
4. VT-100/ANSI escape sequences
5. XMODEM, then YMODEM and ZMODEM
6. ASCII character set and plain text files
All of which come together to allow a lot of interoperability on this level. This type of standardization didn't really exist for:
1. Floppy drives
2. Hard drives
3. Monitors
4. Keyboards
5. Mice
6. Printers (beyond plain text over a parallel port, and even that wasn't the standard interface on many printers)
Pretty much everything you could attach to a computer except a modem was nonstandard and different between different microcomputers.