[Coco] Off Topic: BBS snippet

[Steve Stroh]

Jack:

These days, there are very, very few BBS systems that have phone line
(modem) access these days (that I'm aware of). It's just a pain, and
expense, to maintain a phone line for a modem.

But you can achieve much the same effect using "Telnet" via Internet,
and most of the surviving, or revived, BBS that I've heard of use this
technique.

The "easiest" way I've heard of (I'm a newbie to Retro CoCo) to get
online with a CoCo is to use Drivewire.

For myself, I'm planning to use the RS-232 port or an RS-232 cartridge
(or equivalent) to connect to a Raspberry Pi "terminal server", and
the CoCo will think it's connected via modem (though I may cheat a bit
and up the RS-232 speed a bit from the classic experience of 300 /
1200 / 2400 bps).

Thanks,

Steve

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Jack Carpenter via Coco
<coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> This might be dumb but I just got a Coco 3 and it came with a Modem Pak is your BBS threw the phone lines like back in the 1980? I used to connect with Wildcat and would like to try again someday.
>
>
>     On Monday, July 16, 2018, 7:38:16 PM GMT, Steve Stroh <steve.stroh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  https://microship.com/high-tech-oasis-in-texas/
>
> ...
>
> “Yeah, but there’s nobody to talk to on a BBS,” I replied. “Unlike the
> CB Simulator —”
>
> “I can talk to anyone I want. I’m a sysop!”
>
> Another board owner joined in. “Personally, I get a little tired of
> answering CHAT requests. That’s why I brought up ELIZA.”
>
> “You mean . . .”
>
> He twinkled with wry humor. “You got it. It’s the perfect Turing test.
> I have a second computer hooked up to my board system. When someone
> issues a CHAT request, it says, ‘Hello? Can I help you?’ I changed all
> the messages so it emulates a sysop instead of a psychiatrist. Some
> people never do catch on.”
>
> ...
>
> Explains a lot. :-)
>
>
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