On Dec 4, at 19:48 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Tony Firshman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 4, at 18:08 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Tony Firshman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>> Why not run it on the Internet, sans phone-line?
>>> _______________________________________________
>> How?
>>
>> The system s Pbox (Phil Borman) based and he won't have a conversion
>> program.
>>
>> I will not have the time (or inclination) to convert to a message board.
>> .... and there is a files area.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
> So Commodore hackers and many others do this all the time. It requires a
> second computer (although a terminal server or equivalent would work, too).
>
>
> E.g.:
> http://www.jammingsignal.com/leif/bbs/
>
> That's for Windows as the telnet<->serial converter. If you wanted to use
> a linux box:
> http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/News/tcpser
Now that is interesting. I run a Linux server full time.
Mind you the *whole* point really about shuttung down QBBS is to save power
(8-)#
I reckon as noone calls the BBS, what is the point.
OK access would be 'free', but I reckon there still would be no users.
Chat here has taken over, and Dilwyn has files for download.
I really have given up QL activities, or am trying to!
If anyone wanted to run QBBS, I would happily give them the files.
>
> I have plans to do something similar with a number of my classics: a C128D,
> an Apple II, and my Sinclair QL running pbox. I'm also considering running
> emulations of some of these on a little pogoplug and hosting the
> tcp/ip<->serial on the same box. I also have a 24 port serial router that
> I could use if I wanted to do it on real hardware. I'd love to be able to
> visit a QL BBS accessible via telnet, though, in the meantime. There are
> no Internet based BBS's running on Sinclair (or T/S) hardware that I know
> -- yours would be the first.
>
> I don't know what you were paying for the phone line, but for about
> $25/month, I could get a Vonage line with a U.K. phone number (I'm in the
> states).
Nothing effectively. It simply uses my existing second business line, which is
staying.
Tony
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