Oh, that's really cool. I guess by the fact that it hooks up via the RS232 serial port, it's limited to one inbound or outbound connection. That passes through to the serial port. (I'd kind of like to see a web based terminal app to talk to the serial port on the device) (I'm also thinking that something like this would be useful for the VCF BBS I'm working on) On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 3:07 PM Paul Rickards via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Hi Joseph,
Yes, it can accept inbound "calls" as well. Just like a dial up modem, use the "S0" register to enable auto answer or use "ATA" to answer manually.
Cheers, Paul
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Oh, that's epic. Question, can it be configured to "receive" calls as well?
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 5/12/2017 11:38 AM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 05/12/2017 11:28 AM, Ethan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I've created a WiFi RS-232 Internet modem that plugs into a 25 pin
RS-232 port and emulates the Hayes AT command set. It allows you to use
your
retro computer or terminal to dial "dial" BBSs online.
Can you just ATDT an IP address and port or something?
Essentially, yes. It's essentially a carrier board with a level converter for an off-the-shelf ESP8266 board. The ESP8266 has a serial command language that's based on the AT protocol. It's not ATDT, but you do essentially "dial" an IP address and a port, like this:
AT+CIPSTART=0,"TCP",10.0.0.1,23
It should be trivial to set up most any comm program to do this. The worst case is that you'd end up typing the AT commands manually, if the software doesn't allow you to set up an arbitrary command string to do the dialing.
Maybe there needs to be a indexing service for internet BBSes... a BBS
list of phone numbers and IP addresses.
That's a great idea!
DNS for BBS :)
-Dave
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