Hello Tony!

14 Jan 18 17:43, you wrote to me:

 TL> Bink worked for me, and when I had my point running GIGO (the point
 TL> was spun off the original BBS), Bink's bidirectional transfer protocol
 TL> saved a lot of time, with a lot of mail travelling in both directions,

FD had a nice setup screen, status screen, and there was more it to a the time,
 which I don't recall all the details. Alot of it had to do with actual
operation of the queue(s) etc, but that is a rough recolection at best.

 TL> especially in the earlier days, when I was running 2400 bps.  Was
 TL> interesting seeing bot RxD and Txd lights on continuously. 

Well I had what Bell of PA at that time called Metro Service, basically I could
 call most of the 412 area code prior to the NPA split, for $35-40/month. Slurp
 as much as I needed.

The volume increased enough that having a dedicated line for it all was better
than trying to get Fido, FAX, uucp, and voice to all share. So I moved it to
the office and I had phone lines to spare for it all. I just then ran a point
at home to get stuff at night.


 TL> I was a big fan of GIGO at the time. 

I got hooked into the beta testing of it early on, and it was like FD it worked
 better than what was the big work horse of this at the time, I think UFGATE?? 
 GIGO was just awesome. I had to be doing this on something for awhile before
GIGO came along..hmmm.. I had a uucp account with Telerama for a long time.
Matter of fact I think I was like one of the last few they were allowing to
keep the damn things! I 'd love to see the code of this revived for Linux.  It
won't be me as a I don't touch C.

 TL> Yeah, all are dead, as are the [amateur|Part 97] packet radio to
 TL> FTN
 TL> gating
 TL> systems
 TL> that were around in the 90s. 

Really??  None of those survived? Hmm I would have thought some of that stuff
in the packet world of Amateur radio would continue on. I never got into that
as at that time you still needed 5WPM CW, and my brain just didn't then and
doesn't know work for CW. I moved on to build much bigger radios sytems in
numerous states.

 TL>  Sadly, GIGO is abandonware.  Someone
 TL> would have to rewrite a clone from the ground up. 

I think source was released, but then the sites that had it disappeared and
they who wrote seems to be rather against discussing any part of GIGO, as the
site I found mentioned pretty much "Don't boterh me about GIGO!" So some one
pissed in his cheerios or something. I think this happened after I had to move
for work.

Thinks changed for me about 2000 or so when I had to move for radio work
outside PA. I gave up my uucp etc. setup. I did resetup that box to do some
stuff via Hamster for awhile. Then I pulled the plug on everything non Linux,
for good.

I'd love to see a phoneix of Gigo on Linux, and I'd test it out, I think Fido,
FTN/UseNet/Email gating is till a useful thing. Even if the little
whippersnappers don't see the big pixture!

My lab notes for testing have things like FD, BGFAX under DOSBox on the list, I
 just have so many things going on right now the list never seems to shrink!

Rick


... NOprah!
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