Not only are
all of the greats dying off, but soon there won't be anybody
around who even knew about them.
Some of us younger folks remember him. BBSes and Xmodem got me through high school in
the
90's.
I remmeber using X-Modem to download a term program that had Z-Modem, so I
didn't have to type in filenames and could batch stuff. Plus auto-start.
I think I started with Procom (yuck) then moved to Telix and QModem. I do
remember Telemate as well.
Still to this day, I'll never forget when I caught a BBS user of mine
using Leech-Zmodem. The existence of Leech-Zmodem still cracks me up,
pretty smart.
I kicked that Leech-Zmodem user off my BBS. A number of years later he
became a room mate and then co-worker.
(Leech-Zmodem would tell the BBS side that there was a CRC error on the
line on the last blocks and back up the position, then cancel the transfer
so the transfer was "unsuccessful" to the BBS software and didn't hurt
upload/download ratios. But it captured the complete file.)
- Ethan
