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From: "Ian Stanley"<if@mochamail.com>
Subject: re: if-fiction rota system.
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michael gerwat <michael@grate.demon.co.uk> wrote: we could have a system of mailing games to each other,

Funny this.

I remember (gets his walking stick and prods the newcomers to the internet) when unless you had  one of those really fancy 2400 baud modems or better to practically ftp any file you ran commands by a ftpmail server run by any of a number of american universities.

The idea being the server ftp'd a copy of the file split into 64k chunks ( due to the limitations of a lot of pre-mime mail servers) and then uuencoded the file into 7 bit ascii  before inserting it into the body of a mail message.

To the user would recieve  the (approx filesize/64k) number of emails and save each of them to disk (usually of the high capacity 360k 5.25" type and combine them back into to the file.
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For those of you who a re thinking wasn't high capacity1.2mb then I would like to correct you the order of floppy drives was:
 180kb  8"
 180kb  5.25" ( major advance bringing on the advent of the personal computer)
  360kb 5.25" with the ibm XT
  360 kb3.5" with the mac
  1.2mb with the IBM AT
   800mb 3.5" (pc formatted to 720k)
   2mb 3.5" (pc formatted to 1.44)

Suddenly the nurse comes in telling me it's time for my medication and wheels me off.
