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   Hello August,   
      
    AA> According to the TZUTC, you wrote that just after 5am!   
      
   I don't like to leave things to the last minute!   
      
    AI>> When I first joined Fidonet in 1995 those diff's were essential.   
    AI>> The compressed nodelists were 1.5MB and I really didn't want to   
    AI>> transfer that on the 2400 baud modem I had at the time..   
      
    AA> I used a 2400 baud that came with my computer only briefly. But, by   
    AA> the time I joined Fidonet with my own bbs I had a 14.4 kbit/s internal   
    AA> modem. The increase in speed seemed amazing at the time.   
      
   When I joined Fidonet I was a little behind everyone else but it didn't take   
   long and I upgraded to 14.4 and then 28.8. 28.8 seemed like freedom then. :)   
      
    AA> I really enjoyed utilizing simultaneous upload/download. Was that with   
    AA> Ymodem/G...?  I don't quite remember.  It was cool to "chat" with   
    AA> another sysop during the upload/download session too.   
      
   I think that is Hydra that has bi-directional transfers and chat.   
      
    AA> 1.5MB seems rather large for a text-based nodelist. Were you relying   
    AA> on one of the non-zip archives?  But the math seems right:   
      
   That was the compressed nodelist, ARC format then.   
      
    Ttyl :-),   
            Al   
      
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