[Coco] Lets bring back the Rs232 pack alive

[phil pt]

Using the Rs232 pack and the T2 port would be easer because you do not have
to make a large amount of modifications to over hundred lines of code to
make it work with the orginal Rs232 pack address to receive/send and check
for the carrier status.  The timer event can be used to control the
incoming flow of data being send to the Rs232 pack and to the /t2 since
timer events run in the background when data is received check to see if
the buffer is full, if not then send some information to the Rs232 pack
then check if any data needs to be sent out and if carrier is true or
false.

Back in the 90's it would be a little bit harder but since the programming
lanuages more advanced it makes it more possible that this can be done.  I
have been programming since 1985.

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Feb 5, 2018, at 5:59 PM, phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Lets bring back the Rs232 pack and the t2 port alive using Vcc and
> > Drivewire.  This can be used more then just running a bbs system and a
> lot
> > more older orginal coco programs that support it like Ribbs.  A coco bbs
> is
> > not a Coco bbs system unless its running under Os9.
>
> I *loved* StG Net for OS-9 — far, far more advanced than FidoNet. It was
> basically USENET newsgroups, e-mail (user at system), file transfers (like
> binaries news groups), etc. But, it only spoke CoCo to CoCo.
>
> FidoNet had that big network of all kinds of systems, and cool offline
> readers - even for the CoCo.
>
> However, these days I’m having fun in the CoCo 1/2 days, and expect to put
> some microBBS online on a 64K machine.
>
> We’ll have to start a new BBS LIST with our systems once we get them
> rolling, and if we get RiBBS working via these WiFi parts, I’ll certainly
> run that and join the network too!
>
>                 — A
>
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