[Coco] Lets bring back the Rs232 pack alive

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Mon Feb 5 19:47:24 EST 2018


> On Feb 5, 2018, at 6:14 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
> That was Scott Griepentrog’s, wasn’t it? Or was that Alan Sheltra’s?

Scott wrote it. It’s what Alan ran, and he contributed a ton of add-ons to it. Lots of fancy stuff.

> (Long distance rates from Canada at the time were too much for to be able to use it effectively. With Fidonet, we had a person who handled the mail traffict that worked for the local phone company, who got a special deal for us, which helped a lot).


Cool!

StG did both transfers at the same time — sending and receiving at the same time — so it was a lot faster :)

		— A




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