Subj : Re: fidonet
To   : Gamgee
From : Zip
Date : Tue Aug 02 2022 17:15:26

Hello Gamgee!

On 02 Aug 2022, Gamgee said the following...
 Ga> Same interval here!  '93-'96 and then 2018-present.  :-)

I got my first modem in the summer of 1993. Back then, some of the cheaper modems (including mine, a SupraFAXModem 24/96i) didn't have MNP error correction/compression in hardware, but instead let it be implemented in software (somehow). I remember using a DOS terminal program called COMit (by Tradewind Software) which did that.

If I remember correctly, it had a simple BBS-like remote control of some sort built in. I later switched to Telemate, which had a scripting language for something more like a BBS. I remember modifying some of the message area parts of that. Then later I switched to Terminate as my terminal program of choice (and it had IEMSI logins!), and used FrontDoor+RemoteAccess as mailer/BBS.

Switched OS etc. a couple of times -- first MS-DOS, then DesqView on MS-DOS, then Windows 3.1 on MS-DOS, then OS/2 2.1 and 3.0, then Windows NT 4, then Windows 2000 Professional, and then it was Internet and WWW time... with that 22-year hiatus.

Experimenting with some odd hardware (Microsoft Xbox + Xebian, and an ASUS netbook + Debian) in the mean time, and now settled with an Intel NUC and the latest Debian for the server, and currently Windows 10 on my desktop. :)

Best regards
Zip

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