On 19 Mar 17  20:10:48 Dave Drum wrote...

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> 
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.
DD> 
DD> ... MS-DOS=suit & tie, Macintosh=cool shades, Amiga=high heels &
DD> leather
DD> 

To which Drew Klenotic replies...

Tell him to look into Lantronix boxes.  If he wants to go Fidonet and
call out, he'll want an MSS-100 otherwise a UDS-10 or 1100 should do fine
(the MSS-100 will do dns resolution, so you can do ATDT
bbs.sfhqbbs.org:5983 and it will connect... otherwise with the UDS
models, you'd have to know the IP and do the ATDT with that).  That's the
best way to get old school stuff that wants to talk to a modem with
telnet.  The Lantronix boxes can be found on ebay fairly cheap and their
modem emulation mode has brought lots of old school systems to life
(including mine).
 
If you think that would help him, feel free to forward him to my BBS or
the fourms at www.atariage.com (there is a sticky thread in the Atari
8-bit section on BBS's which covers this, or he can just leave a message
there and the other sysops and I would be happy to help him).

--- RATSoft/FIDO v09.14.95 [JetMail 1.01]
bbs.sfhqbbs.org:5983 (1:2215/1701.0)