Ah, the days of XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM and Kermit.
Mustang and Wildcat BBS could run on my 286/16 with a whopping 512k of RAM and a 30MB HD.
Now I have digital photo RAW files larger than that first hard drive.
Kermit! Believe it or not, there is still a Kermit project out there. I noticed it last install I did under Fedora Core 5. I didn't install it, as I have no need for it anymore, but it's good to know that some software never dies.
Somewhere, I still have the printed out Zmodem manual... I bought my wife a 512 megabite SD card for her camera a few days ago, and couldn't help remembering "the biggest DOS hard drive" we ever put in the old 30 megahertz, 386 machine-- 65 megs. Barely fit a 5 1/4 drive bay... you had to do some weird jumper setting to get 65 megs, it was nominally 32, a Mitsubishi, I think.
It's just amazing how the technology accelerates so much.