Hello Tony!   
      
   16 Jan 18 21:52, you wrote to me:   
      
    TL> Bink was more text driven.  I did pretty up its status screen with   
    TL> some olours.   
      
   Like I said things have been lost in time on exactly why, but a lot of had to   
   do with FD just making sense to me.   
      
      
    TL>> especially in the earlier days, when I was running 2400 bps.  Was   
    TL>> interesting seeing bot RxD and Txd lights on continuously. :)   
      
   My biggest issue back in the day was HST and HST+ crap. I never had any success   
    with HST/+ nodes ever negotiating down, and personally I think they were set   
   that way.   
      
   I had a V.Evertyhing eventually when I got it cheapo... but I think it got lost   
    in one of the many moves later after modems were not in need, other than ICLID   
    or fax.   
      
   If I ever get the chance I might dig through the shed and toes.. there should   
   be some Telebits in there too!   
      
   Wasn't there something that allowed for that, like Hydra??? Or something. I   
   remember having some bidirectional protocols available for things, but maybe   
   that was stuff I added to Terminate, Telemat, and ProComm...   
      
      
    TL> My transfers were local, but they were fairly large for the day, so   
    TL> the bidirectional protocol was a huge time saver.  I'v be like "Cool,   
    TL> this system runs Bink, or "Damn, it's FD, slower transfers! :D   
      
   My reaction was like that for HST nodes, as per above, I really thing they were   
    intentionaly misconfigured to block the V.34 etc stuff at the time.   
      
   Much like FD or Bink you were either in the USR HST camp or not, and I was not.   
    I just thought their stuff was overpriced even if you go in on the Sysop   
   deals. I didn't really qualify as I didn't have a BBS, points for a few buddies   
    and some things, but it was not a public BBS so no dice, but I had issues USR   
   at the time.   
      
    TL> I loved GIGO, it did almost everything, but not quite.  It wasn't   
    TL> built to gate netmail from multiple zones, but a handy utility called   
    TL> NetMgr did some fancy rewriting, creating  virtual addresses in each   
      
   I used NetMGR too! Had it to do all kinds of things, and one of those was to   
   take the stuff that came in for some things like ML's I was operating that went   
    in/out via private FTN's. I think I saw a Linux port of this in collecting old   
    things for Fido for Linux.   
      
      
    TL> othernet for my gateway.  It won't be me that works on GIGO either, I   
    TL> also stay away from C, never really learned it. :(   
      
   Me either, C just didn't work for me. Considering I started on COBOL, Fortran,   
   and assembler for a PDP8/e and later 6502, 68HC11's, and some other stuff.   
      
   GIGO really would need to be able to work with a standard UseNet account now to   
    gate UseNet vesus uucp. There are not too many if any uucp places around. I   
   susppose some the ancicent "freenet" things that are still around might offer   
   it.   
      
    TL> Sounds like all of my todo lists. :D   
      
   The ones at work shrink, but just keep filling up. The ones for my personal   
   stuff never seem to shrink, but only grow and grow and grow.  Hmmmm....   
      
      
   Rick   
      
      
   ... NOprah!   
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