Reply to post: Even in the 1980's

A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

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Meh

Even in the 1980's

They could have phoned it in thus by passing customs. In grad school starting around 1980, we used to write code for our PDP 11/34 on our Atari 800's at home, then connect by modem to upload & compile the code remotely. Obviously we could have just used the Atari's as terminal emulators (which we did as well), but it worked better to edit locally as then multiple people could be working on code at the same time. (PDP only had one modem.) We even wrote our own error correcting file transfer Atari BAISIC/PDP FORTRAN routines that could also resume the transfer where it left off if the line dropped.

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