I think that bringing back a number dial-up BBS's would be really cool. Let's re-live the 1980's in the 2010's. :-) On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 10:23 AM Jim Scheef via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 23:12:48 -0500 From: william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org
Cc: william degnan <billdegnan@gmail.com> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] vintage comms days
I propose that we pick a day and time each week were persons turn on their vintage computing systems that can receive outside communications via dial up, telnet or, other networking. I think keeping a BBS or VAX machine up and running all of the time is tough, but if there is a window where you know that's when people kind of expect it, it'll be more managable...Do I hear a second?
We can use the vcforum to post that week's list of who is online and when. Basically a sticky thread where people post the URL or IP address, phone number, etc and technical details to help others make the connection, hours of operation.
I can help assign subdomains, etc if anyone needs networking assistance. For example I have alpha2100.vintagecomputer.net assigned to my Alpha here in my basement, but I don't run it 24/7, but I would be willing to schedule to turn it on on a known schedule to make it worth doing. This way I can be there to supervise / troubleshoot.
This Friday night (tomorrow)I have to watch the kids, so once they're in bed, say 9PM, I could run a few systems until about midnight to help kick things off. It might be fun to see how many systems a person can hit, catch the flag style. Maybe we could make some sort of challenge of it. Send an email from one or download a file. Just for fun.
Bill
Bill, Excellent idea. I have several 300bps devices that would be fun to connect to anything - dial-up of course. Jim
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-- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?