[TUHS] networking on unix before uucp

[A. P. Garcia]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 08:42:53AM -0600, emanuel stiebler wrote:
>> On 2014-08-23 22:59, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 03:32:45PM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
>> >> BEGIN - old guy's memories ....
>> >
>> > I see your old guy memories and "raise" my sort of old guy memories.
>> > This is a bell labs blit story.  It relies heavily on 7 bit clean stuff.
>> > I'm not entirely sure this ever worked reliably but here is what we did.
>> >
>> > I was a grad student at UW Madison and shared an office with
>> another guy.  We
>> > had a serial line to the computing center across the street.  We
>> had a blit,
>> > loved it.  We wanted two.
>>
>> Any chance, you still have any software for the BLIT?
>
> Nope, all we were doing was muxing a serial line and that was 8051 assembler.

still a useful little device today, at 1-2 dollars each...