FYI: 25th Anniversary of Ward Christensen's BBS

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Fri Feb 21 17:33:00 2003

> Sure, but that has no relevance to the original question of when modems
> were first used to send binary data (not text) from one computer to another
> over a telephone line.

What about ciphered text? In five letter code groups? With weather symbols?
Looks like a file to me!

In any case, I think this is all quite silly - another "first" debate. In
this case, the computer industry was the *last* group to figure out how to
use a modem - the voice guys used it, the telegraph guys used it, the
radar guys used it, and the teletype guys used it - all before the
computer guys.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Fri Feb 21 2003 - 17:33:00 GMT