01-15-18 22:01 Rick Christian wrote to Tony Langdon about Modem emulator over   
   TCP/I   
   Howdy! Rick and Tony,   
      
    RC> @MSGID: <5A5DCD84.5879.fi-linux@capitolcityonline.net>   
    RC> @REPLY: <5A5B2A8B.5869.fi-linux@capitolcityonline.net>   
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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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