Re: lamers on IRC

[Emanuel Berg]

>   In telecommunications, RS-232 or Recommended Standard 232
>   is a standard originally introduced in 1960 for serial
>   communication transmission of data. It formally defines
>   signals connecting between a DTE (data terminal equipment)
>   such as a computer terminal, and a DCE (data
>   circuit-terminating equipment or data communication
>   equipment), such as a modem.
>   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232>
>
> Hm ... :)

No, I get it, rs232 was used for very short distances (e.g.,
same room), UUCP was used for long distances on landlines.

I added rs232 to my computer history file, the one other entry
from the year 1960 is fittingly ALGOL 60, the
machine-independent algorithmic language ...

https://dataswamp.org/~incal/COMP-HIST
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/sth/scripts/hist
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/#sth

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