FYI: 25th Anniversary of Ward Christensen's BBS

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Wed Feb 19 15:09:00 2003

> > (I know of some done in 1975, from an IBM
> > mainframe to a DG Nova.)
>
> At least as early as 1965 IBM sold equipment that could do this, so
> I rather imagine people probably did binary transfers even in those days,
> but I don't have any proof of it.

Well, modems predate computers, so "first" is probably not a great word
to use.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Wed Feb 19 2003 - 15:09:00 GMT