I could care less about telnet... I want to make the teletype clack! Ed#
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> Date: 10/16/16 18:39 (GMT-07:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: VCFed, the BBS! On 16/10/2016 14:10, william degnan wrote: > On Oct 16, 2016 5:52 AM, "Evan Koblentz" <cct...@snarc.net> wrote: >>> I mean please add 110 Baud Evan! >> >> I was giving examples, not carved-in-stone specifications. > If the system is simple it'll be easier to support, 110b is not, given the > number of persons coming in from the other end so slowly. No one barely > has a phone line anymore as it is, most (95%) of the external traffic will > be telnet. If the bbs allows those few of us with phone lines to connect > at 300 to 1200b to get to a handshake and resolve to a simple welcome > screen for hardware testing purposes, that would be a good start. Get that > running see what kind of traffic results, and plan phase ii from there. > > I imagine it will be best once this system is up and running that people > call in on Sunday afternoon so visitors to the museum hear the inbound > calls in real time like a sys op would running a bbs from his basement. > Bill Speaking as a former Sysop from the 1980's. What would be nice is a couple of DEC Rainbows running FidoBBS and connected via a phone line simulator. Enter your mail message on one and see it get transferred to the other where it can be read. Rod Smallwood -- *PDP-8/e PDP-8/f PDP-8/m PDP-8/i Front Panels ex Stock - Order Now*