[vcf-midatlantic] vintage comms days

[Joseph Oprysko]

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 at 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 at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>
> > To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org
> >
> > Cc: william degnan <billdegnan at 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
>
>
> js at sdf.org
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>
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