Steve told me his name was Mark. He must have gotten the name wrong. Now it makes sense. How about connecting 9 Commodore 64 computers together for an 8 player internet game similar to Artillery Duel? I heard two guys were working on a game called Space Command that would play over the internet with the C64nic+ cards. Maybe we can find out how close those guys are to finishing their game and try it out. On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Mark dropped off a 24 channel cat 5 switch.
You mean Martin. There's no Mark.
Specifically, it's a power-over-Ethernet switch. We can use that as a regular network switch, but it will also supply power for our two IP cameras, which Martin previously supplied. The cameras have motion sensors so we can configure them to send alerts (to the chapter admin group: me, Corey, Jeff B., Dean) when they record anything outside of our docent hours.
Beside the two cameras, one port will connect to our office PC and another connect to the BBS for Telnet access via our LTE modem.
What should we do with the other 20 ports? Any creative (non-sarcastic) suggestions for ways to demo/teach vintage computing that would need a network? To put it another way: how might we grow into a 24-port switch?
-- Jeff Brace - ark72axow@gmail.com