ASR 33 Emulation - help!

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Fri Oct 19 15:07:18 2001

It was thus said that the Great Douglas Quebbeman once stated:
>
> > It was thus said that the Great Douglas Quebbeman once stated:
> Dang! How can I live this down?
>
> > > I was never a big Kermit fan. It came at the very end of the days
> > > when it would have been of most use to me (76-81). As a nearly
> > > charter member of Ward & Randy's BBS, I adopted Ward Christiansen's
> > > XMODEM protocol, and used MODEM/MODEM86 during those years.
> >
> > Kermit was a life saver when I was at college; it could always get stuff
> > through when X/Y/ZModem wouldn't work at all.
>
> Admittedly, the fits I had with it weren't due to the protocol, and
> you're right, it did seem more robust... there were apparantly some
> variations in how the X/Y/Zmodem protocols got implemented...

  I don't see how. I have some documents (I think written by Ward
Christiansen) about how XModem and YModem work and it seemed fairly
straightforward to implement the protocol. XModem isn't exactly that
difficult of a protocol to support 8-)

> > > PROCOMM most closely resembled Andrew's program, so that became my
> > > standard terminal emulator under DOS, and later Windows.
> >
> > I preferred Qmodem but later switched to Procomm because of the better
> > terminal emulation.
>
> QModem may have been it, I was using a version under OS/2 1.0...

  The QModem program I used ran under MS-DOS. I've found that I really
dislike the Windows versions of such programs because Windows makes working
with modems a real pain (about as painful as using a modem under Unix and
that's quite a task!).

  -spc (``No! I want to talk directly to the serial port you piece of
        #$%_at_$#@#$!#$! Let me talk to it, #$%#@$%@#$%#@!'')
Received on Fri Oct 19 2001 - 15:07:18 BST