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jani@fosstodon.org

Jani Nikula

"I've got backups older than you."

I just restored backups I made 30 years ago.

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pare@kamu.social

Pare

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@jani I hope the disks are not 30 years old.

I have some of those, I think some of them are closer to 40 years… though no backups.

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@jani I watched this few months ago when I stumbled upon it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p83QUZ1-P10&list=PLtjBEWQ66xeLEqAUssJEDQRV1cbQR2-xk. Like not as a tutorial but more like entertainment. A culture act IMHO :-)
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@jani Too bad my daughter is already 18 I mean this would be perfect for kids to learn how to program :-) Nicely put set of tutorials and preservation of computing history at the same time...
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@jani I’ve been doing ZMODEM that was also a thing in the 90s :-) https://github.com/jarkkojs/zmodem2

I guess this is sort of retro modern project :-)

Just want to sort out the issue of difficult file transfers when you have only a serial cable access and get a basic serial terminal with nothing special except file transfers of which progress you can see and also cancel them. It is 2023 and we still have to curse lrzsz so it is better to fix that issue…

I mean I had a decent experience with ZMODEM last time when using MS-DOS and software such as Telemate and Telex.

I have also TUI client in progress but had to halt that because could not find an appropriate crate with decent quality.

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