[Coco] Setting up a BBS

[Rod Barnhart]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2008, at 10:32 AM, RJRTTY at aol.com wrote:
>>
>> At least I still have a  working drive, or I might have been stuck with
>> ALLRAM  ;)
>
> You know, it dawns on me we might be able to use this to our advantage, and
> get some press for the CoCo Community. I expect just having a retro 80's BBS
> online (on a CoCo, Commdore 64, etc.) might be notable on some geek news
> site, but having something running off of a CASSETTE might get more notice.
>
> Perhaps as we get closer to CoCoFest 2009, we can see about getting some
> press this way.
>
> I have not had time to keep up with the CoCo List in awhile, but this is a
> project I think could be fun (especially given the various other things
> going on right now we'd like to tell the world about).
>
> And I'd really like to see StG Net resurface. That was one slick set of
> commands.

There are several C64s, Apple ]['s, and various other 8-bit BBSs
sitting out there on the net. If I can get past all the minor issues
(Murphy was an optimist), this might be the first CoCo BBS on the
Internet. Solving the "hard stuff" and just getting something up is my
immediate goal, but I'm open to suggestions for where to go after that
:) (The hardest thing so far, aside from discovering problems with 20
year old equipment, has been finding the telnet<->comport gateway...
If it weren't for hardware and software failures, I'd be done by now.)

Rod