Just the other week I dug out my old Qmodem floppies, and I installed it on my retro Tandy 1000 TL. I used it with a null modem cable and USB serial to my Mac, where using something simple like picocom let me send files back and forth with Zmodem.
The built-in serial on this machine is too slow to be seriously useful (max sustained speed is 9600), but it was enough to send different network drivers to try without having to play with disk images and plug/unplug USB sticks from my floppy emulator to my Mac.
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Just the other week I dug out my old Qmodem floppies, and I installed it on my retro Tandy 1000 TL. I used it with a null modem cable and USB serial to my Mac, where using something simple like picocom let me send files back and forth with Zmodem.
The built-in serial on this machine is too slow to be seriously useful (max sustained speed is 9600), but it was enough to send different network drivers to try without having to play with disk images and plug/unplug USB sticks from my floppy emulator to my Mac.
Qmodem was as familiar and useful as ever.