On 04/09/2017 12:20 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Well, this is interesting ...
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/a-1986-bulletin-board...
Not impressed! He's using all kinds of modern hardware and telephony tricks. The VCFed BBS, under development, will be a REAL dial-in service. There will be telnet access too, but no microcontrollers or modern translation adapters or anything of the sort. Just a bare-metal MS-DOS server, MajorBBS software, an analog PBX with GSM antenna, and Internet access.
I think it's cool that some of the modern technology keeps the retro stuff accessible in modern times. ( this coming from the person who runs Mach Ten in a Mac Plus emulator on a modern Linux box - and it's WAY faster than it ever was on any hardware Mac I ran it on! ) -- -- Derrik Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE dwalker@doomd.net "Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak