On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 03:10:25PM -0400, Mike Stein wrote: > I suspect that this is the way everyone loaded programs back in 'the > old days' which is probably why the text-mode .BA files were normal > and didn't cause problems; kinda slow though, and you definitely > want proper handshaking...
Well Desklink and its MacOS cousins were commercial programs. Without the PDD protocol all the Model 100 has is ASCII downloads. (Or Xmodem, but AKAIK there was only 1 xmodem program that actually did binary downloads, and it was also commercial.) So yes, the filename.extension on the PC/CIS/whatever side didn't really matter. Willard -- Willard Goosey [email protected] Socorro, New Mexico, USA I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night. -- R.E. Howard
