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   sigflup (sigflup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 15:26:12 JST sigflup

   Were there any dumb terminals that allowed you to download things via say xmodem to a storage media, like a floppy?

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 15:26:12 JST tom jennings

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     Don't think so. Not actual serial terminals. There's not much they could do other than capture or interpret the serial stream that they're rendering.

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     sigflup (sigflup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 15:26:25 JST sigflup

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     @tomjennings Yeah, I didn't think so either. The first thing I downloaded from the internet was over a dos terminal emulator. I had a grex account and lynx could save things. Back then sx/rx was around on unix to transfer things to your terminal. I always thought it would cool to have a terminal dedicated to doing that.

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