-=> Quoting Richard Webb to All on 12-06-07  16:35 <=-

 RW> I'm looking to pick some brains here, so please bear with me.  My plan

Having read thru your whole note, I still wonder just what you are
asking?  It appears you want to use your DOS box for yourself still, but
hook it into such things as DSL, etc?  My resident "wizard" is likewise
not sure what you are quite asking about...

Just for the record, I'm still using a strictly DOS computer, and we
have a DSL connection which connects to all the computers in the house,
some of which are using Windows, but also including mine.  We don't have
a bbs here, though.  However, I telnet, using my machine, to a number of
different bbses around the country.  I use them just as I always have,
and I usually read and reply to my messages with my offline reader
(BlueWave).  If there's anything special in my setup to make it happen,
other than any programs that my "Wizard" has put together, I'm not aware
of it.  :)

ttyl       neb

 RW> is to eventually do dsl with router etc. running smoothwall.  the plan
 RW> is to have one machine offer business web site, also make this bbs
 RW> telnet available. 
 RW> We'll have a win98 machine of some type, its operating system may
 RW> change, another machine running debian which will also be part of this
 RW> network. IT will be occasionally used for audio transfers and other
 RW> chores as well as be the wife's business machine.

 RW> I've a compaq 133 mhz running dos 6.22 that I'd like to be able to tie
 RW> into this thing some kind of way without going to windows. NO cd-r
 RW> drive in it at the moment.  One thought is to install a drive, wipe the
 RW> operating system and install slackware to take advantage of my
 RW> doubletalk synthesized speech.  AS a blind person screen access is a
 RW> priority.  My problem wit this approach is that slackware doesn't seem
 RW> to be updated anymore these days. I also have a compaq 133 mhz
 RW> laptop around, plan to add a serial port speech synth to it.
 RW> THough I could move ham radio logging programs to it I'd still like
 RW> to keep all that in this machine and have some internet access from it
 RW> without playing the OS swap if at all possible.


 RW> what I'd like to be able to do is log onto this network using
 RW> something like a shell account, access my email etc.  I could always
 RW> play dummy point off the bbs and move files to this machine and
 RW> continue to use this reader/editor combination which I like. any ideas
 RW> how best to accomplish this out there? 
 RW> Btw it's still desirable to keep pots capability happening with the
 RW> bbs as well.

 RW> Regards,
 RW> Richard
 RW> -!- timEd 1.10.y2k+
 RW>  ! Origin: Radio REscue net operations BBS       (1:116/901)
 RW> 1011



... AHA!!! I've finally got this ficts, fics, fixd...sigh.

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