Yes Lee! It can absolutely be done. I think we have a lot of bits and pieces but no fully cooked solution.
HTERM was developed to allow best use of all the graphics characters since it does a mapping of a lot of common UTF-8 characters. So, you get the line drawing characters, bulleted lists, discard of color ANSI color escapes, stuff like that. Also it allows higher baud rates. That's one end of it. Then what? I have set up a termcap on Linux and that allows me to get a shell prompt and launch various programs that are to access the internet, like text web browsers, email clients and such. Other than the "bridge" of which there are various solutions (I've made progress on a an BT->Android bridge but its ain't done) the main thing we need is a Telnet BBS that is tuned to the M100 display. That would make it menu driven instead of command line driven which I think most T'ers want. So is there BBS software that be can be configured for and works (as good as possible) at 40x8? Then we'd be back to the level of functionality in the Compuserve days. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Lee Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > I've been around here for a long time but am not really an expert on > anything here but I do have several Model T's a REX and a NADS box along > with PDDs and other stuff but I just want to pose a question. > > Back in the day, like 1989 or so I would dial up to the Star Telegram BBS in > Fort Worth and access all the news and such. I never did fido net email or > any of that but I figure that was available at some level too. > > Is it something that could be done to set up a server that would allow > either dial up or Telnet access (with a serial to Ethernet bridge) to > connect to a BBS that would allow searches like I used to do for stories on > the newspaper BBS and exchange e-mail. > > In reality I know it could be done but how difficult would it be? With > access to the files at the club100 website and e-mail. I know this would be > a project but I would bet it could be done fairly easily. > > Then the only thing that would be needed would be that one little custom > device or add on for one we have that would provide the bridge with wifi and > maybe RJ45 too but mainly wifi. > > Of course having the BBS with the termcap settings for screen compatibility > and the settings on the server so that it would delineate between text > e-mail and ones with unnecessary graphics. > > I think having the ability to search news feeds and access e-mail and > directories either at the club100 site or a copy of it would be all that we > could expect for online activity for our little computers. Of course there > could be portals for updating social media and sending tweets and or maybe > receiving them. > > I know that still leaves these computers just operating as a terminal when > online but that's what they were good at in the day. > > Sorry this was so long. > Oh and let's not forget a video out device too.... > > Lee > LLTMT > > -- > "I will never in my lifetime make a film that cannot be seen by the whole > family" Arther P. Jacobs
