[HN Gopher] Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and ...
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Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of
QModem, has died
If you knew him in life or remember his contribution to the world,
please share your stories.
Author : AaronFriel
Score : 1022 points
Date : 2024-12-30 18:11 UTC (1 days ago)
| yoyoma1234 wrote:
| I'm very sorry for your loss, and wish him and yourself the best
| in this next phase.
| spockswrench wrote:
| I only used QModem after it was purchased by Mustang Software but
| still have great memories! I was actually blown away by ZModem as
| a protocol when I first used it. How far we've come! This was a
| really interesting and innovative time period for computing and
| communications in general.
| spockswrench wrote:
| I missed that this was your father and can't edit my post! Much
| condolences for your loss. Your dad built something amazing.
| captainkrtek wrote:
| So sorry for your loss
| pmb wrote:
| The Qmodem program, brought home on some random 3.5 inch floppy,
| allowed me to connect to local BBSes and started my journey into
| networking computers. Now I have a PhD in CS and I spent more
| than a decade deeply caring about the Internet, networks, and
| network research. Without the start given by those BBSes, my path
| could have been very different! I am very sorry for your loss,
| and I hope the fact that he made a random teen's life better is
| some comfort.
| blitzo wrote:
| Hey Friel Family, I just wanted to reach out and say how sorry I
| am to hear about John's passing. I didn't know him or his work,
| but it's clear he made a significant impact on many lives. Losing
| someone who has touched so many people is never easy. Even though
| I'm a stranger, I hope you find some comfort in the memories you
| shared and the love that surrounds you during this tough time.
| Sending you all my best wishes and support.
| chasingthewind wrote:
| My condolences on your loss. I used QModem in the early 90s
| downloading shareware and the like. I just looked through my
| floppy disk holder and found a 3 1/2 inch floppy from 1992 with
| QModem on it :) Your dad's contribution to the BBS scene was huge
| and it was an important part of my own journey into computing.
| russellbeattie wrote:
| Add me to the list of early 90s QModem users! Just looked it up
| now and was reminded of the various download protocols like
| ZModem and Kermit. I haven't thought of those for years! When I
| used them, I don't think I even knew what a protocol was!
|
| RIP JF.
| jeremyjh wrote:
| I used QModem in the late 80s, accessing files on local BBSs on
| my 8086.
| nickdothutton wrote:
| QModem and then Telix were a window through which I explored
| another world as a young teenager with a budget modem with shaky
| MNP compatibility. In that world I eventually found friends, a
| wealth of knowledge, and a career. So thanks JF. RIP.
|
| ATH0.
| cf100clunk wrote:
| The family of modem data transfer software back then had
| Kermit, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem, UUCP scripts, and pro-quality
| tools like QModem and Telix, as you mentioned. I'm sure I've
| left some other modem data transfer tools out. QModem had a
| certain polish and stability to it.
| f1shy wrote:
| Telix with the salt scripting language!! What memories!
| yowayb wrote:
| "ATH0" made me tear up
| wenc wrote:
| I used QModemPro (after it was bought by Wildcat) and it was the
| best. It integrated with OLR (offline reader) which meant I could
| login to the BBS, download my messages via Zmodem as a compressed
| QWK file, and logoff.
|
| It was so much more efficient than downloading plain text
| messages. Of course these days we no longer have bandwidth
| constraints like that but back in the day it enabled long
| discussions like the sort we're having on HN today.
|
| Qmodem wasn't the only terminal emulator but it was the most
| professional one.
| rboyd wrote:
| QModem was great software. I remember meeting many new friends
| from BBS days using that program. My condolences to you and your
| family.
| thecrumb wrote:
| It was like a doorway on a floppy disk.
| cf100clunk wrote:
| Condolences, and thanks John Friel for the QModem memories.
| justmarc wrote:
| My condolences. May he rest in peace.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmodem
| reconnecting wrote:
| Only today, I told my colleague that the first BBS connection was
| one of the most extraordinary experiences I've had in my life. Of
| course, it wasn't possible without QModem software.
|
| Thank you so much to your father for the happiest moments of my
| childhood!
| mikerg87 wrote:
| Accept my condolence for your family in this time of sorrow. The
| QMODEM program was transformative in my life. Through USR
| robotics HST modem and QMODEM I was able to access a world far
| beyond the rural life in which I lived. The generousity of his
| shareware program probably touched more people than you will
| know.
| kylecazar wrote:
| I have a very early memory related to QModemPro (too young to
| remember the original).
|
| Sorry for your loss, and grateful to your dad for his
| contributions.
| bwann wrote:
| Qmodem was my favorite comm program during the BBS days, and it
| still is today when working with vintage computers. It was just
| nice to use. Its scripting language was the first I used and I
| find myself wishing there was a Linux comm program with scripting
| that worked that well. Long distance calls were expensive so I
| used a Qmodem script to call BBSs each morning to download my
| email before school.
|
| Just the last several months I've been using Qmodem scripting to
| make thousands of modem calls over VoIP to test downloads to see
| which models and ATAs work best.
|
| After I jumped back into the vintage BBS world I've been keeping
| an eye out for anything Qmodem. I recently just picked up a
| Qmodem manual on ebay that I wanted to scan and archive, because
| it's pretty rare to see.
|
| Not too long ago I saw where John had posted to a FB group he was
| working on a new DOS version of Qmodem, my first interaction with
| him. I was excited to see it be worked on again and hoped to see
| the new version. Sad to see him go.
| maybeben wrote:
| Huh, interesting. Are you publishing the results of that
| testing somewhere?
| mattdeboard wrote:
| Do you plan on writing about your dip back into vintage BBSs? I
| have a lot of memories from my youth oriented around BBSs, a
| world and network of communities I wasn't really old enough to
| understand. I'd like to revisit that time with my adult
| brain...
| Bluestein wrote:
| > Just the last several months I've been using Qmodem scripting
| to make thousands of modem calls over VoIP to test downloads to
| see which models and ATAs work best.
|
| This is great. That someone is _still using this software
| meaningfully_ to this day.-
| runjake wrote:
| The amount of engineers your father directly or indirectly
| created are innumerable. Myself included.
|
| I would've never discovered UNIX or the pre-web internet without
| software like and including QModem.
| jimodonald wrote:
| I knew him personally. We worked on a few projects together in
| the late 90s/early 00s. He was a good man and I remember him
| trying to be a good father to you. I will miss him and his
| infectious laugh.
|
| My condolences to you and your family.
| ska wrote:
| Condolences on your loss, Aaron & family. Few of us will ever
| write software with as much impact as QModem, I hope that your
| father found satisfaction in that reach.
| BeefWellington wrote:
| Sorry for your loss. I was an avid Qmodem user back in the day.
|
| Your father's software directly led to a lifetime passion for me.
| Dialing into a local BBS and being able to reach people around
| the world was, to me as a kid in the 80s, the single most magical
| thing imaginable.
| rbanffy wrote:
| BBSs made me realize computers are much more useful as
| communication devices than computing devices. By far the most
| useful peripheral back then was the modem (after the basics -
| such as floppy disks).
| pheller wrote:
| I too was one of the Many who used Qmodem back in the day, and
| still do now on vintage stuff like bwann mentioned.
|
| I had opportunity to work with John on a small consulting thing
| when I started and ISP back in the mid 90s, and I recall him
| being an incredibly bright and affable guy.
|
| My deepest condolences to the family.
| cyberge99 wrote:
| Qmodem still runs on Linux. I've had to use it a few times to
| talk to serial devices.
| graton wrote:
| That might be Qodem instead of Qmodem. But I would be happy to
| be wrong.
| JeremyMorgan wrote:
| I'm so sorry for your loss.
|
| Your father's contributions are immeasurable. Just reading the
| word "QModem" gave me an instant flashback to my youth. QModem
| was my gateway to the outside world.
|
| I grew up way out in the country. I was the 80s and I was pretty
| isolated from technology and didn't even know anyone who cared
| about it at first. I started tinkering with our home PC, and I
| finally purchased a modem and figured out how to connect to BBSs.
| This changed my life. I had many sleepless nights as teenager,
| connecting everywhere I could. QModem was like a fancy car that
| drove me anywhere I wanted to go.
|
| I became obsessed with learning and tweaking things. AT commands,
| autoexec.bat, QModem scripting. Whatever I could figure out to
| get maximum performance and fast download speeds. Because of
| Qmodem, I could download games, text files, and even talk with
| other people. This moment in time defined my future. I knew right
| then what I wanted to do with my life.
|
| I owe thanks to your father and what he built for my wonderful
| career, and 40 years of enjoying technology. Without something as
| easy to learn and reliable as QModem, who knows what path my life
| would have taken.
| ghewgill wrote:
| I worked with John for a few years in the 1990s. This was during
| the heyday of BBSes, when he joined our small team at Mustang
| Software after Mustang bought Qmodem. John moved to Bakersfield
| California (with his family, including OP!) to be with us. John
| left a few years later due to I think business differences with
| management.
|
| John was personable and full of joy. He always loved a good joke.
| I remember the parties (not wild, we were pretty tame back then)
| we would have around the pool at his place. He was generous with
| his time.
|
| The story of Qmodem itself was a bit different. Qmodem for DOS
| was a one-man shareware business and was John's pride and joy. It
| was clear that he poured everything into that program. It was
| finely tuned and just worked. Times were changing though, and
| people were calling for a Windows version. Unfortunately, John
| was not interested in learning Windows programming, so Scott
| Hunter (now at Microsoft), Dan Horn, and I built Qmodem for
| Windows. It was good, but it really never had the same level of
| polish that John's work did. It was "Qmodem" in name only.
|
| After John left Mustang he also left Bakersfield and I lost touch
| with him. I'm sure he continued to make the people around him
| smile. Thank you for your time and contributions, John.
| geocrasher wrote:
| In the mid 1990's, as a teen, I once was hired to cold call a
| bunch of software companies to contribute to some non-profit,
| and I recall calling Mustang Software.
|
| That was 30 years ago. I don't know who I talked to, but they
| were not too happy to have me on the phone lol. Sorry if that
| was you. and OP sorry about your father. I recall QModem well.
| dicroce wrote:
| I had two floppies: MSDos & QModem. With those two I could use
| BBS's to get everything else.
| xbar wrote:
| QModem was amazing software, and I was sad when Mustang bought
| it. I was happy to see a software company in Bakersfield,
| though, and continued to use it. Without it, I never would have
| come as far as I did.
|
| My condolences to you and your family during this time. I am
| grateful for John's work and the pathway he paved for so many
| into this world.
| jexe wrote:
| Thanks to your father for his contribution to my childhood, I
| used QModem every single day until my parents screamed, and it
| changed my life. I made friends on some local BBSes that I still
| have 30+ years later.
|
| Sending condolences and gratitude.
| Trixter wrote:
| I'm very sorry for your loss.
|
| In the early 1990s, QModem's workflow for offline inter-BBS email
| (in the QWK file format) allowed me to communicate several times
| weekly, much faster than physical mailed letters, to people all
| over the world that I would not have been able to do otherwise.
| It helped me curb depression, build my technical skills, and join
| a community whose members I am still in contact with over a third
| of a century later.
|
| QModem was written in Turbo Pascal, and was noticeably faster
| than other terminal ("modem") programs on my aging 8086 hardware
| at the time. And knowing it was written in TP, and being a TP
| programmer myself, gave me hope for the possibility of writing
| fast code in a high-level language myself, which I eventually
| did.
|
| I would not be as successful in my life today without the
| positive experiences made possible by QModem.
|
| PS: Your father's choice of name for his shareware company, "The
| Forbin Project", was quite the hax0r flex at the time.
| ChuckMcM wrote:
| Sorry for your loss Aaron. My father passed away just before
| Thanksgiving and it hit me harder than I expected (long illness,
| failing health, so I felt I was prepared but alas).
|
| Qmodem was for me the tool that IT gave everyone so they could
| "dial in" to the office when on business trips. And because it
| was installed by IT on every fresh laptop it was always in the
| top left corner of the screen. Even after my company had moved on
| to other products, my wife continued to use it for years sending
| faxes when folks needed a fax sent.
| ohjeez wrote:
| Your father opened doors to other worlds and helped us humans
| reach one another.
| qmodemjunky wrote:
| QModem changed my life, and gave me an outlet and window to a
| whole new world as a young teen. My condolences. And my eternal
| gratitude to you, your father, and your family!
|
| Glad to see all my Qmodem peeps in here again! If anyone has any
| pointers on how to get back into the BBS world, my interest is
| piqued.
| jlundberg wrote:
| This FidoNet-style experimental messaging network is a good
| pointer to get started and find more people involved in today's
| BBS world:
|
| https://fsxnet.nz/
| qmodemjunky2025 wrote:
| QModem changed my life, and gave me an outlet and window to a
| whole new world as a young teen. My condolences. And my eternal
| gratitude to you, your father, and your family!
|
| Glad to see all my Qmodem peeps in here again! If anyone has any
| pointers on how to get back into the BBS world, my interest is
| piqued.
| mansilladev wrote:
| Sorry for your loss. Like so many others here, I was a heavy
| QModem user. My memory is for crap, but I think without it (and
| Ymodem-G and Zmodem protocols) BBS/warez life would have been
| unbearable.
| monitron wrote:
| I'm so sorry for your loss. I don't have anything super-personal
| to contribute except what has been said many times already:
| QModem was my first window on the digital world and a
| delightfully crafted tool. Developers of today (like me) could
| learn a lot from your dad.
| cannibalXxx wrote:
| my condolences
| jimmar wrote:
| I was a middle schooler in the 1990s when I first used QModem. My
| dad found a list of BBSs from the local newspaper and I dialed
| them up with my trusty 14.4 modem. It felt like unlocking a
| secret world.
| clamprecht wrote:
| Wow, QModem! I wish a had a screenshot of my main QModem page
| with the top BBSs & dialups in my list. I never met John Friel,
| but his software changed my life.
| rbanffy wrote:
| I am so sorry for your loss. I used QMODEM a lot on my BBS years.
| anshubansal2000 wrote:
| I am so sorry for your loss.
| dugmartin wrote:
| QModem got passed around to the CS freshman by an older student
| when I started college in '89. It was my gateway to the local BBS
| scene where I made a lot of friendships, both online and at
| monthly "swap, meet the sysops" meetings we had at a local sub
| shop.
| mericson wrote:
| John helped get me and my college roommate started with Linux
| system administration and web development three decades ago. We
| both grew up in in the town in Iowa where John lived, and my
| roommate had met him around the time we went to college in the
| mid nineties. We were both nerdy engineering majors who had
| gotten exposed to Unix through our college dial-up shell
| accounts, and we had managed to scavenge together enough computer
| parts -- an old 386 motherboard, a discarded hard drive that just
| needed a molex connector soldered back onto it, a spare floppy
| drive -- to assemble a computer just barely capable of running
| Linux.
|
| I remember lugging it all over to John's basement where he helped
| us install Slackware Linux from a giant stack of 5 1/4 floppies
| he had.
|
| Later, when John was running up a dial-up ISP in town, he let us
| park that server at his ISP, so we had a full Linux server of our
| own connected to a T1 with its own public IP address, and where
| we had root access and could experiment with running our own web
| and email servers and other such things. Back then in dial-up
| days, having a Linux server of our own on the Internet seemed
| unbelievable, and I will always be deeply appreciative to John
| for that opportunity.
| coolcsh wrote:
| John and I met each other in the early days of BBSes and he put
| me in touch with the developer of a BBS called Colossus which was
| written in Turbo Pascal. This got me started as a developer and I
| met Jim Harrer through these interactions as we were trying to
| port BBSes to run on the IBM PCjr. Years later Jim started
| Mustang Software where we developed a commercial BBS called
| Wildcat. Jim and I stayed in touch with John the whole time which
| led to Mustang buying Qmodem. After John left Mustang he and I
| continued to stay in touch. I ran into him and his son at many of
| the conferences I spoke at for Microsoft. And most recently he
| and I were in touch trying to find all the components so we could
| compile Qmodem again.
| pcdoodle wrote:
| Aaron, This is before my time but I want to send my condolences
| and also acknowledge the great title as it's rare here.
| jbot29 wrote:
| Sorry for your loss. Like many others QModem was a huge part of
| me getting into computers. I loved the shit out of QModem, ATH0
| ride or die.
| steelframe wrote:
| Another software engineer chiming with QModem being one of his
| childhood core memories. Sorry for your loss.
| jim_lawless wrote:
| In the early 1990's, I purchased a "Telepath" modem from a
| company then known as Gateway 2000 along with a computer and
| other gear. Qmodem for DOS was included with the Telepath.
|
| I had used a number of different terminal programs on a handful
| of machines of the era, but I never found one as robust and as
| easy to use as Qmodem. I used Qmodem for several years. I quit
| using it when the local BBS scene wilted away.
|
| Thank you for your father's contributions to communications tech
| and BBSing. My condolences to you and your family.
| 51Cards wrote:
| This brings back so many memories. QModem was my go-to for online
| life back in my BBS days. Your father had an immeasurable impact
| in enabling the online world, which in turn fostered countless
| people like me who went on to careers in development / IT.
| tmountain wrote:
| Used QModem as a young teen, and it was my gateway to connecting
| with people in my community via a very cheap laptop that only had
| a floppy drive (no HD). This experience shaped my future and my
| trajectory in tech, thanks to your dad.
| nthnb wrote:
| Sometime around 1994, when I was 14, I remember using QModem to
| connect to my best friend's computer down the street. We spent
| all day sending text messages back and forth. Then I discovered
| BBSs and eventually an early version of the internet offered by
| my towns local library BBS. A whole world opened up from that
| moment.
|
| Your father's work had a big impact on my life. I'm sorry for
| your loss.
| Jaauthor wrote:
| QModem was my first modem program and I can still hear the sound
| of that little DOS-based 2400 BPS modem ringing in my ears. My
| best to you and your family and I'm so sorry for your lost.
| glimshe wrote:
| My condolences. I wasn't a QModem user (my older friends used
| Terminate/Telemate so that's what I learned from them), but I was
| a heavy BBS user in the later scene which greatly benefitted from
| the ecosystem that grew thanks to QModem.
| SpaceManNabs wrote:
| Sorry for your loss OP. From reading the comments, your dad was
| pretty awesome. Hope the memories keep you company.
| hackcoughgasp wrote:
| I was a happy customer of The Forbin Project. QModem was a great
| product. It's probably hard for younger people to appreciate how
| important terminal software once was.
| powerhugs wrote:
| I am sorry for your loss, OP.
|
| QModem was my window to the world of BBS:es and FidoNet back
| before we got Internet.
| wut-wut wrote:
| So sorry for your loss.
| elijahwright wrote:
| My local bbs scene had a ton of qmodem fans; mostly older guys
| who had been around a while. It was the late 286 and early 386
| days for us, and I was in late middle school and early high
| school.
| simonvc wrote:
| +++ATH
| simonvc wrote:
| +++ATH
|
| QModem was the best (until everyone started pushing zmodem).
| ToddWBurgess wrote:
| QModem allowed me to explore the wonderful world of BBSs before
| the Internet was a thing. Having access to BBSs gave me a leg up
| when I got to University and got access to the Internet. BBSs are
| what got me seriously interested in computers and helped me
| launch a career in software development.
|
| Your Dad's legacy will be writing the software that opened doors
| for many of us when computers used to be a walled garden and
| talking to another person on a computer was still a foreign
| concept for the general population. Condolences on the loss of of
| your father but hopefully you can take comfort in the fact his
| legacy made the world a better place for PC users.
|
| Just wanted to add, found this YouTube video of your father
| launching QModem on an old PC:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs7XZs6jOhc
| martyz wrote:
| I ran a BBS for several years in the late 80s, early 90s as a
| teen and dialed out to countless others with the help of Focke's
| BBS List and Qmodem - thank you so much John for your
| contributions. RIP.
| 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
| I used qmodem as late as the 90s for transferring files from an
| SDF-like remote UNIX shell account to a home PC. Great program.
| RIP.
| TomAugsrpuger wrote:
| My condolences Aaron. Reading through these comments, it sounds
| like your dad left a great impression on the world.
| anotherlab wrote:
| I'm so sorry for your loss. I remember buying licenses for Qmodem
| and later on Qmodem for Windows. I think I spent more time
| tweaking scripts to log me into various BBSs than I would have
| spent just typing in the username and password. But where's the
| fun in that?
| RiellyYoung wrote:
| My condolences to you and your family.
| WesBrownSQL wrote:
| I am sad for for your loss but glad he had such a large impact on
| my life and so many others.
| jjguy wrote:
| I didn't personally know your dad, but like many others here
| depended on his work with QModem during the late 80s and early
| 90s. The fact we are all on Hacker News is evidence of how it
| impacted our lives - and the relevance of the community here.
|
| Thank you for posting - I've enjoyed reading the outpouring of
| history and stories and hope it brings you the same sense of
| wonder it has me. Godspeed to you and your family.
|
| Similar to all the rest of you HN lurkers, especially the grey
| beards - thanks for being here and thank for keeping the "hacker"
| in "hacker news" alive.
| dfe wrote:
| Just the other week I dug out my old Qmodem floppies, and I
| installed it on my retro Tandy 1000 TL. I used it with a null
| modem cable and USB serial to my Mac, where using something
| simple like picocom let me send files back and forth with Zmodem.
|
| The built-in serial on this machine is too slow to be seriously
| useful (max sustained speed is 9600), but it was enough to send
| different network drivers to try without having to play with disk
| images and plug/unplug USB sticks from my floppy emulator to my
| Mac.
|
| Qmodem was as familiar and useful as ever.
| jimbergman wrote:
| I miss the BBS days and the good folk like John that were part of
| that community.
|
| Sorry for your loss Aaron.
| dvrj101 wrote:
| is this his youtube channel :
| https://www.youtube.com/@JohnnyMarauder , the last video is :
| "Getting an old copy of Qmodem running on a restored IBM 5150
| PC." with
|
| description: "I wrote Qmodem originally on an IBM PC Clone, the
| Tava PC. I've restored an actual IBM 5150 with the same cards and
| software from back in the day, and here it is running Qmodem
| V3.1"
| AaronFriel wrote:
| Yeah, that's his channel.
| palisade wrote:
| Qmodem is what got me into BBSes. I later switched to Terminat.
| Sorry for your loss, he contributed a lot to early communications
| that eventually led to the internet. I'll always have fond
| memories of the BBS era.
| robarr wrote:
| I want to comment on something that seems important to me. In the
| third world, in countries where the internet arrived much later
| and where money was much scarcer, the effect of qmodem was quite
| long lasting and profitable for the tech savvy community. A PC
| and a modem were the support for many of the adventures and
| beginnings in computer science and in general to satisfy that
| insatiable curiosity for the computer revolution. Engineers
| working in big companies and using the resources of these and
| local volunteers installed BBS with Walnut Creek cds and other
| shareware CDs and gave access for the first time to that universe
| that we now take as evident and accessible from our phones.
| Without qmodem I would still be waiting for my copy of unarc!.
|
| In my personal case, I want to also thank your father for
| pointing us thru it's company name to the book and movie "the
| forbin project" :-). In our present of promises of supercomputing
| AIs, maybe we should all read the book or watch the movie.
| pfdietz wrote:
| I knew nothing about him, but here's his YouTube channel.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnnyMarauder
| flyinghamster wrote:
| My condolences. Between QModem, Telix, ProComm, and all the rest,
| I'd put QModem at the top (but all were good). I didn't get
| online until I was away from home, but wasted no time getting
| there once I had the opportunity. At that time, Champaign-Urbana
| had a hopping BBS scene, aside from all that was going on in
| school.
|
| I've considered revisiting old-school BBS systems (or at least,
| BBS-via-SSH, it is the 21st Century after all) but there just
| never seems to be enough time.
| michaelcampbell wrote:
| Sorry to hear it. I used QModem (as well as any other package I
| could get my hands on) in the mid 1980's quite a lot. Was active
| in the BBS scene for my area, (and Compuserve, and GEnie, and
| others), and have many fond memories of those days. They were
| _MY_ "golden years of computing" where every month something
| revolutionary seemed to come out.
|
| 5 1/4's; 300-1200 baud modems, x/y/z modem transfer protocols,
| programming in BASIC mostly at home, Pascal in high school,
| reading Byte magazine, typing in endless rows of DATA statements,
| "+++" attacks, "ATDT" vs "ATTD" arguments... I miss all of it.
| notorandit wrote:
| The loss of a father is a big loss. This one in particular is
| like a world pillar just collapsed.
| spalt wrote:
| how many hours did i stare at the ZMODEM BATCH download screen
| waiting for my warez to finish at 4800 baud? innumerable! RIP.
| browningstreet wrote:
| QModem, redialing, carrier connect speaker audio, ASCII art and
| BBSes were a huge part of my teen years. Big thanks to John, and
| a heartfelt RIP.
| m_walden wrote:
| Could you please provide a link(s) to an obituary if/when it gets
| published?
|
| Sorry to hear of you loss, and my condolences to you. Thanks in
| advance.
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