[Coco] networking

[Steve Batson]

I Ran a Small BBS on a CoCo for a while many years ago. I still have the software around somewhere. It wasn't all that impressive, but I was able to get a Text Adventure written in Basic on-line with it. I didn't run it very long and then moved on to running a few different BBS packages on a PC.

The BBS days were fun, but things have changed so much and we've become spoiled with speed and all the many options of the Internet that the BBS just isn't that practical anymore.  I like Forums and felt they were a great replacement for the BBS as they provide a sense of community, allow information and posts to be categorized. Personally,  I don't like most of the other Social Media services such as Facebook, I use it because it's a great way to keep in touch with Family and I use the CoCo Face Book Page, but I still think Forums are better.

In any case, I understand playing around with a BBS package for Nostalgia or the experience, but as mentioned by others, they just don't get much use and people loose interest. I do think if running one, accessing via Telnet is almost a requirement these days as most people don't have or use modems.



On Apr 16, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:

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> On Apr 16, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I hosted a BBS on a CoCo as an experiment and demo about 4-5 years
>> ago.  Several people from this list connected and got a taste of the
>> good old days.  Beyond a few minutes of nostalgia there was little
>> interest so I shut it down after a month or so.
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> Same thing with the BBS I was running on my IIgs for about a year. People would connect, poke around, and not really do much. I finally transitioned it off the IIgs and now have it running on Synchronet on a Linux box. I think it’s one of the few that still offer real modem dialup though, in addition to telnet and web access.
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> I haven’t had a chance yet to go through all the menus and configs and get things working for 32 column or 40 column access, and it’s filled with all kinds of ANSI menus right now. :-/
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