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Comment on Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died

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Sorry to hear it. I used QModem (as well as any other package I could get my hands on) in the mid 1980's quite a lot. Was active in the BBS scene for my area, (and Compuserve, and GEnie, and others), and have many fond memories of those days. They were MY "golden years of computing" where every month something revolutionary seemed to come out.

5 1/4's; 300-1200 baud modems, x/y/z modem transfer protocols, programming in BASIC mostly at home, Pascal in high school, reading Byte magazine, typing in endless rows of DATA statements, "+++" attacks, "ATDT" vs "ATTD" arguments... I miss all of it.

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