Subj : man's most serious activity is play
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Thu Oct 06 2022 20:04:34

  Re: man's most serious activity is play
  By: Maurice Kinal to Charles Blackburn on Thu Oct 06 2022 19:09:18


 MK> Hey Charles!

 CB>> im actually quite partial to zmodem8k and used to do a lot with
 CB>> sealink.
 MK> For at least the last two decades - and then some - I have been using binkd for fidonet file transfers including official
 MK> MSGs liked this one, although this particular point is using ssh to transfer to the mothership -> "Little Mikey's Brain",
 MK> 1:153/7001.0. It's ip address is in the regular nodelist. It compares favourably to ftp transfers although I haven't tried
 MK> lately as I currently don't have ftpd running on "Little Mikey's Brain". That would be the winner if something like graphics
 MK> is ever needed in fidonet exchanges.

oh for sure, scp/rsync et al are the way to go in modern times.... unless of course the pc you're working on is a p150 with 48 meg of ram and only has irda or a serial port :D 

then i go back to good ol' laplink and a parallel cable or if it's from my main pc, a serial cable.

 CB>> saved my old man and me multiple 4+ hour (one way) drives just to
 CB>> put a disk in and copy a new binary LOL

 MK> At that time had access to multiple remote 9-track tape drives. They were roughly a half hour walk from where I lived at the
 MK> time. Anyhow the mainframe didn't have any compatible programs to copy to what passed for a PC back then. However I could
 MK> telnet from home but without actually bieng there to swap tapes and the such made living so close extremely attractive at
 MK> the time. Exabytes on Sparc stations changed the game for me and my usage of Linux later on brought it all together.

yea i cut my teeth on SCO Xenix running on a compaq deskpro 386 eith eisa cards and all the other good stuff.

the days of having to put a disk in and boot just to do a cmos bios change sucked... in fact, i just found an old disk case
of my dads which has a bunch of the config disks in for compaqs... need to get around to imaging them.


 CB>> sealink version for SCO Openserver and that helped tremendously
 MK> I never played with SCO. Solaris is where I cut my unix teeth ... in a time and a land far, far away.

at the time i never got on with solaris, even though it was similar it was just that much different from *NIX to be a pita

I still have a xenix and an OS507 vm sitting here that i play with at times. :D

regards
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