On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 13:13:44 -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: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] vintage comms days
Bill, Excellent idea. I have several 300bps devices that would be fun to connect to anything - dial-up of course. Jim
js@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
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. :-)
Who actually has a dial tone phone and connects to BBSs? I think a lot of this will have to be telnet BBS, and TCP/IP stuff, but anything goes as long as it's passing through vintage gear for part of it.
Bill
Bill, Given the billions of people on the planet, there must be two or three who regularly dial into a BBS. I would not be one of them but the novelty and fun of it would be reason enough in this case. I've been looking for somewhere to which I could connect via a TRS-80 Model 100, an HP Portable or this Tandy terminal thing with an acoustic coupler (hopefully I have some thermal paper). The terminal thing is untested because I had no where to dial. The SDF Public Access UNIX system (where I am typing this) offers dial-up which I plan to try any day now. Jim js@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org