From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:45:05 -0500 Subject: [COFF] 52-pin D-Sub? In-Reply-To: References: <905CE999-5601-4521-847B-B2146C60B564@serissa.com> <6a44c9e7-1e7b-bd0e-df1c-6e2208e8b780@kilonet.net> Message-ID: On 2/29/2020 8:12 AM, emanuel stiebler wrote: > On 2020-02-28 18:22, William Pechter wrote: > >> I used to be the guy who >> at the most desperate would get Kermit over a 3 wire interface to allow >> data transfer between different systems.  Or UUCP on ms-dos... >> >> Something about jack of all trades. > Kermit seems to be or was(?) the Swiss army knife of communications. > Or the 9-track tape ... > ;-) > > You technically haven't lived until you use an acoustic coupler, a cassette tape recorder and a wire tap to record 300 baud modem tones as you type out files on a PDP-10 somewhere... And then play that tape back to your own computer and that same modem, and save it to floppy. It's how I saved LOGO.MAC from somewhere on the ARPANET back in the early-to-mid 80's. ;) art k.