[Coco] Are there any CoCo BBS's out there?
Rod Barnhart
rod.barnhart at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 15:26:02 EDT 2007
On 8/2/07, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd consider it (an actual coco with an actual modem), but I'd need to know
> a couple things. I have a US robotics external (serial) modem I might be
> able to use if I can throttle it down from 56k (I think it can autodetect
> the connection speed), and I'd need a 4 pin din to 25 pin serial cable to
> connect it with, and then there's the BBS software and whether I'd be using
> Nitros or DECB. Other things that have to be considered are not wanting to
> pay for more phone lines so there'd only be one connection at a time and
> also only allowing people to connect between 7PM EST and 6AM EST. The cable
> and the modem I could handle myself (I think), but not sure about the BBS
> software and if people could live with the one at a time connection or the
> connection time window.
Is one caller at a time pretty much a given on a CoCo? Or is there any
OS-9 BBS software that could handle a modem on the bitbanger port, and
another via an RS-232 pack?
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Rod Barnhart aka Wintermute (http://www.nitemarecafe.com)
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