18 Feb
2003
18 Feb
'03
6:35 p.m.
Re:
The following link is to the story in the February
16th Chicago Tribune. Not
the most detailed story, but still some recognition of an important event in
computer history.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D03021
60428feb16§ion=%2Ftechnology
The story places XMODEM at 1977-02-16.
I was wondering...I know that network transfers preceded XMODEM
(the first FTP RFC was 1971) ...
but...does anyone know the first data of a binary (not ASCII)
file transmission via modem? (I know of some done in 1975, from an IBM
mainframe to a DG Nova.)
thanks,
Stan
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Stan Sieler
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