8 Aug
2008
8 Aug
'08
6:25 p.m.
On Friday 08 August 2008 13:09, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The Trailblazers at one point were *the* modem to have
if you were
doing UUCP-type transfers between systems. Since it used a
proprietary protocol, you had to go Telebit-to-Telebit. I had
friends at Telebit, and vaguely remember that they used multiple
carrier frequencies, but not too much other than that.
I never knew much about those, but they sure did look to be pretty nifty from
what I could see on the outside. :-)
I know that one system that I called occasionally back when I was calling
bunches of them was in fact a box where a guy was running unix at home. And
he eventually gave me a login on that box, and tried to nudge me in the
direction of running it, eventually.
At a later point in time I did end up doing UUCP-type transfers with his
system, when I was running a fidonet-internet gateway of sorts. Just email,
but it was nice to have, excepting all those clueless folks that even then
were doing email in HTML...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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