01-15-18 22:01 Rick Christian wrote to Tony Langdon about Modem emulator over
TCP/I
Howdy! Rick and Tony,

 RC> @MSGID: 
 RC> @REPLY: 
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 TL> Bink worked for me, and when I had my point running GIGO (the point
 TL> was spun off the original BBS), Bink's bidirectional transfer protocol
 TL> saved a lot of time, with a lot of mail travelling in both directions,

 RC> FD had a nice setup screen, status screen, and there was more it to a
 RC> the time,
 RC>  which I don't recall all the details. Alot of it had to do with actual
 RC> operation of the queue(s) etc, but that is a rough recolection at best.

 TL> especially in the earlier days, when I was running 2400 bps.  Was
 TL> interesting seeing bot RxD and Txd lights on continuously. :)
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 TL> I was a big fan of GIGO at the time. :)

 RC> I got hooked into the beta testing of it early on, and it was like FD
 RC> it worked
 RC>  better than what was the big work horse of this at the time, I think
 RC> UFGATE??
 RC>  GIGO was just awesome. I had to be doing this on something for awhile
 RC> before GIGO came along..hmmm.. I had a uucp account with Telerama for a
 RC> long time. Matter of fact I think I was like one of the last few they
 RC> were allowing to keep the darn things! I 'd love to see the code of
 RC> this revived for Linux.  It won't be me as a I don't touch C.

 TL> Yeah, all are dead, as are the [amateur|Part 97] packet radio to
 TL> FTN
 TL> gating
 TL> systems
 TL> that were around in the 90s. :(

 RC> Really??  None of those survived? Hmm I would have thought some of that
 RC> stuff in the packet world of Amateur radio would continue on. I never
 RC> got into that as at that time you still needed 5WPM CW, and my brain
 RC> just didn't then and doesn't know work for CW. I moved on to build much
 RC> bigger radios sytems in numerous states.

 TL>  Sadly, GIGO is abandonware.  Someone
 TL> would have to rewrite a clone from the ground up. :(

 RC> I think source was released, but then the sites that had it disappeared
 RC> and they who wrote seems to be rather against discussing any part of
 RC> GIGO, as the site I found mentioned pretty much "Don't boterh me about
 RC> GIGO!"

I'd wonder if The Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive https://archive.org
would have pages with the source code ..--..
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 RC> My lab notes for testing have things like FD, BGFAX under DOSBox on the
 RC> list, I
 RC>  just have so many things going on right now the list never seems to
 RC> shrink!

Same thing here - I call it My ROUNDTUIT List.

73 de Ed W9ODR  .    .


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