Robert Couture wrote to Ward Dossche on Thursday June 03 2004 at 15:01:

 RC> My belief is that as soon as ISDN only nodes were allowed into the
 RC> nodelist, ZMH was destroyed in it's concept and scope.

Taken strictly, that happened even before that... remember the "modem
incompatibilities" all of us used to have with some systems on a daily
basis? There were systems I simply couldn't connect to, and the situation
worstened as the range of transmission speeds and protocols increased.

Admittedly, the ISDN-only systems represented a whole new situation, since
even buying a new modem or changing the modem configuration wouldn't allow
an analog modem system to connect to an ISDN system. But we've had similar
problems almost from the day I entered fido in the Spring of 1993.

The nice part about it is that fido still hasn't broken down because of
such matters, even though we now have BinkP systems that neither ISDN nor
analog systems can connect to without an Internet connection. But true
interconnectivity, assuming it ever really existed, is something that
disappeared early in the fido game.

Cheers, Bob

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