Subj : beyond March 19 2038
To   : August Abolins
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Wed Feb 12 2020 15:59:00

Hello August,

 AA> According to the TZUTC, you wrote that just after 5am!

I don't like to leave things to the last minute!

 AI>> When I first joined Fidonet in 1995 those diff's were essential.
 AI>> The compressed nodelists were 1.5MB and I really didn't want to
 AI>> transfer that on the 2400 baud modem I had at the time..

 AA> I used a 2400 baud that came with my computer only briefly. But, by
 AA> the time I joined Fidonet with my own bbs I had a 14.4 kbit/s internal
 AA> modem. The increase in speed seemed amazing at the time.

When I joined Fidonet I was a little behind everyone else but it didn't take
long and I upgraded to 14.4 and then 28.8. 28.8 seemed like freedom then. :)

 AA> I really enjoyed utilizing simultaneous upload/download. Was that with
 AA> Ymodem/G...?  I don't quite remember.  It was cool to "chat" with
 AA> another sysop during the upload/download session too.

I think that is Hydra that has bi-directional transfers and chat.

 AA> 1.5MB seems rather large for a text-based nodelist. Were you relying
 AA> on one of the non-zip archives?  But the math seems right:

That was the compressed nodelist, ARC format then.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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