[Coco] Off Topic: BBS snippet

[Chris Osborn]

> There are devices called telephone line simulators, like this:
> 
> http://a.co/ayWRm5j
> 
> They let modems "play together" in their own little simulated
> telephone network - dial tone, dialing, ringing, off-hook, etc.

Another cheaper option is setting up a PBX with an ATA such as a GrandStream HT502 or Cisco SPA112 or SPA122 and a Raspberry Pi running Asterisk. I built one recently that I fit into a box that fits under a standard WE 500 rotary phone for a demo at work with a Model II and 8" floppies. I still need to get a blog post together on it, but you can see a couple of pictures of it on my Twitter:

https://twitter.com/FozzTexx/status/998980675620429825

https://twitter.com/FozzTexx/status/1008506143809794048

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