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to: Drew Klenotic
from: Dave Drum
date: 2017-03-21 06:54:38
subject: Ressurection was:Macintosh echo

-=> Drew Klenotic wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> I'll have to dig it back out of the pile and look. IIRC it was either
 DD> three or five. I mentioned it at my last Unix club meeting and
 DD> Fearless Leader began salivating. He's ressurecting a Burroughs B-20
 DD> mini-frame and may bring back Springfield's first ever multi-line
 DD> dial-up BBS that he wrote in 1981.  Bv)=

 DD> TBH - it probably won't happen unless he can update the arcnet to
 DD> ethernet and whore-up a method for telnet access rather that
 DD> exclusively dial-up modems. But it was fun to speculate about at the
 DD> meeting, And it sure used up a lot of pizza and beverage.

 DK> Tell him to look into Lantronix boxes.  If he wants to go Fidonet and
 DK> call out, he'll want an MSS-100 otherwise a UDS-10 or 1100 should do
 DK> fine (the MSS-100 will do dns resolution, so you can do ATDT
 DK> bbs.sfhqbbs.org:5983 and it will connect... otherwise with the UDS
 DK> models, you'd have to know the IP and do the ATDT with that).  That's
 DK> the best way to get old school stuff that wants to talk to a modem with
 DK> telnet.  The Lantronix boxes can be found on ebay fairly cheap and
 DK> their modem emulation mode has brought lots of old school systems to
 DK> life (including mine).

 DK> If you think that would help him, feel free to forward him to my BBS or
 DK> the fourms at www.atariage.com (there is a sticky thread in the Atari
 DK> 8-bit section on BBS's which covers this, or he can just leave a
 DK> message there and the other sysops and I would be happy to help him).

The bringing back to life of the Burroughs will happen. I'm not sure on the 
BBS. But your mention of Lantronic  gave me a thought ..... about my Amiga 
boxes. I still wouldn't have a decent browser but heck, life isn't all about 
the interweb anyway. And I might get inspired to clean the rust off of my 
feeble programming skills to port a *nix browser to the Amiga OS. Amiga Dos is 
very Unix-like anyway.

Anyway, thanx for the advice - which I will forward on to Lee.

... MS-DOS=Christianity; Mac=Bhuddism; Amiga=Pagan sex magick
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