> On 2020-08-22, at 7:40 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> I fear that you have been spending too much time immersing yourself the
> gratuitous improvements of modern technology. Surely you still remember
> how to connect your computer with a proper rotary dial phone and acoustic
> coupler. Once connected, you would use uuencode/uudecode (like base64)
> to send binary stuff to the uucp network in a shar archive.

I missed that level of 'pleasure' by a couple of years but my first experiences with trying to sned data from one computer to another involved 'cables' made by soldering dress-maker's pins to wires in orderto be able to probe the DB15/25 connectors and work out which ones were the appropriate ones. Such fun!
> 
> Naturally you would want to add line terminators in your encoded data,
> othewise people might not be able to view it in their vi text editor or
> text mail client.

Oh yea, *those* people. It's ok though, there will be at least 42 emacs modes and add-ons to handle it for you, just so long as you have the proper emacs extended edition 432 key keyboard. With the full dozen meta keys.


tim
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