Good for you!

For a long time I was using an old '486. My method of using it to
connect to remote systems all over was through a freeware terminal
program (BCOM.EXE) which had been posted on the local dial-up BBS in my
area preloaded with the local dial-up BBS numbers.

The local dial-up BBS offers internet email and has two methods of going
outbound telnet to other BBSs.

Both of those ways are "doors" on the Wildcat! BBS software.  The one I
use exclusively is the Wildcat! BBS  list door.  That's because if I
find out the i.p. of some other telnettable system I can add it to
the list and whoever uses the BBS this way can go there too, as well as
me.

Of course, this all depends on the BBS remaining in service and it's
SYSOP continuing to want to share his DSL line with many other people.

I never could figure out a way to get a file in from a system to which I
was telnetted.  I've been told the problem is 8bit/7bit incompatibility.
I have to take that on faith as I don't know enough about it to say
myself.

For a long time on that system I had offline email through Juno until
they moved all free users to web-based email and the old '486 just
wasn't up to their requirements for the web client.

Good luck on your project.

Last night I couldn't go to sleep so I fired up the old 8080 2X720k
floppy laptop hooked to the external 9600 baud modem and read and
replied a couple  of emails and then played the Legend of the Red Dragon
in another city for awhile.

Now that's "retro" ;')

Jim Stenzel



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