[Coco] Closing BBS

[Chris Osborn]

On Dec 23, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> 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’ve been running a BBS on my IIgs for a year or so off & on. It supports access over the internet as well as via dialup through a modem, http://bbs.fozztexx.com <http://bbs.fozztexx.com/>. Same as you, it seems silly to leave an old computer on all the time. I’ve tried to move the whole thing onto an emulated IIgs, but the emulator was too buggy and the emulated serial port would crap out after a day and I’d have to restart the emulator. I haven’t had the time to try to fight with it more so it’s still running on the real hardware. 

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