[Coco] Closing BBS

[Bill Pierce]

Robert, Bill's "Square One" BBS was an internet (via telnet) BBS.
You could login by conntecting through DriveWire4 and using telnet... no phonelines needed (just internet access).
All you needed was NitrOS9 with DW4, and SuperComm. Of course your DW4 server PC had to be connected to the net.
It was pretty cool seeing the old BBS style log on and psts, not to mention the door games :-)
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 23, 2014 1:46 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Closing BBS


It's great that you were hosting a BBS in this day and age, I have a lot 
of good memories of dialing phone numbers and getting busy signals.  I 
was throwing around the idea, a year or so ago, of hosting my own BBS 
for absolutely no reason other than I could.  But to keep costs down, I 
wanted to use VoIP lines instead of land lines.  I thought (at the time) 
that at 2400 baud, maybe a voip line would work.  Well, I never did get 
a voip line to work, not even at 300bps.  If you were able to make VoIP 
work, I'd be very interested in how you did it, if you're willing to 
share -- feel free to email me directly if that's the case.  And of 
course, if anyone else on this list is a VoIP wizard...

Thanks,
-RobertH

On 12/23/2014 12:22 PM, Bill wrote:
> Since I have nothing to offer Cocoists anything other than a dozen or so
> other sites, and since my BBS activity is down to 6 callers this year, it is
> with regret that I have decided to close *Square One Family BBS. The expense
> to keep it running is actually nothing (only about $50 a year), but keeping
> an OLD computer running 24/7 is somewhat of a chore.
>
> I will be keeping an eye on the mailing list and maybe asking a dumb
> question now and again, but I think BBSs are pretty much finished.
>
> Thanks
>
>


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