I think a more charitable description would be Minimum Viable Product. It was far less complex than KERMIT, and got the job done.
As soon as better options became available, we all jumped.
Still, sometimes you've got a spiffy new Toshiba laptop with 3 1/2" disk drives, MS-DOS, and nothing else. This in a house full of 8" and 5 1/4" floppies. What to do? Use debug and Copy con to pull over just enough of Xmodem from another machine, to then pull over Qmodem, then Laplink, and it's off to the races we go.
I think a more charitable description would be Minimum Viable Product. It was far less complex than KERMIT, and got the job done.
As soon as better options became available, we all jumped.
Still, sometimes you've got a spiffy new Toshiba laptop with 3 1/2" disk drives, MS-DOS, and nothing else. This in a house full of 8" and 5 1/4" floppies. What to do? Use debug and Copy con to pull over just enough of Xmodem from another machine, to then pull over Qmodem, then Laplink, and it's off to the races we go.
I was amazed to watch it happen.