11 Apr
2011
11 Apr
'11
3:45 p.m.
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Rich Alderson wrote:
I find this amusing only because MODEM originated at
Yale, AFAIR.
At least, that's where I encountered it, several years before
Kermit existed.
I am far from an authority on the history nor variants.
Virtually none of my information on it is first hand.
I was under the impression that the whole family was based on Ward
Christensen's MODEM.ASM from 1977?, and that he has been working at IBM
(NOT on microcomputer file transfer!) since about 1968? (Is he STILL there??)
Could you elaborate on Yale's role? (Or did they simply buck the "Not
Invented In Academia" tendency?)
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