[IP] Fwd: Columbia terminates Kermit Project after 30 years (fwd)

I certianly do. In fact if I ever decide to get a more modern machine, I would not consider one without a serial port (or USB-serial interface, or...) and kermit. The main reason I use it is becuase it's available for just about anything. I tink the [XYZ]modem programs were much less 'univeral'. I never found the latter for the PERQ, the BBC micro, HP9000/200, etc. As I have mentioned many times before, I find the HP95LX palmtop very useful for shipping data between machines tht are not physically next to each other .I normally use the kermit in that machine if I can. It does have an Xmodem protocol setting too, but I've never really tried it. My HP48, of course, has kermit built-in (but not Xmodem). For example, I want to send somebody a dump of an EPROM from a classic machine. My EPROM programmer has a serial por and will output the contents of the EPROM in Intel-Hex. I can capture that using the HP98LX in text capture mode, then carry the HP95LX to my PC and use kermit to transfer the data. It saves trying to get the EPROM progrmamer from by electronics bench to my computer desk (you've not seen the lack of space here :-)). I;'ev never found the speed of things _where I can set it going and come back when it's done_ very important. I'll start the transfer and get on with something else. -tony