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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:20:38 +1030
From: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@adelaide.edu.au>
Organization: The University of Adelaide
Subject: Re: New release of DEC-20 Kermit
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Any 20th anniversary of Kermit celebrations planned? (-:
My first clear memory of MS-Kermit was in 1984 using it to tranfer files
between an IBM-compatible PC at the University of Adelaide physics
department and the VAX 11/780's.
Frank da Cruz wrote:
[edit]
> (*) The first Kermit file transfer occurred on April 29, 1981, between
> two copies of DEC-20 Kermit over a loopback connection between two
> serial ports on the Columbia University DEC-20.
>
> - Frank
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