[vcf-midatlantic] vintage comms days

[Jim Scheef]

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 at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>
> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>
> Cc: william degnan <billdegnan at 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 at sdf.org
>>> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>>>
>>
>
> <fixing top post>
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at 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 at sdf.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org