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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.

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

@tomjennings wow, that keyboard looks pretty fun

I was sysop of this dlx bbs back in the day. dlx was written in pascal. I just learned that Niklaus Wirth the creator of pascal just died