Re: A modern BBS
Thanks for the info on the 4-Port LAN adapter.? I've sent Terry an email asking about it.
David
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David Jones
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#156
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Good point as always. Need to dig out my break-out box for that.
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Richard Cini
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#155
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Might want to try looping back the RTS/CTS and the DTR/DSR pairs on the modem.? That might fool it to work with 3-wire RX/TX/Gnd RS-232
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joshbensadon
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#154
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Thanks Mark. I never inspected the modems I have, but it’s worth a look based on your experiences.
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Richard Cini
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#153
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Rich,
I had a number of Optima 144 modems, and they all had severe PCB damage
from leaked surface mount caps--more damage than I had the patience to
try to fix.
I was able to rescue/preserve a
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Mark Thomas
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#152
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Yes. Synchronet 3.17 running on XP, which is Telnet only. It uses “COM-to-telnet” bridge software to support POTS. I had a spare PC handy so I set it up as a quick test to give the Z80MC something
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Richard Cini
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#151
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
rich: synchronet is running on a PC?
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Subject: Re: [Z80MC] SIO and Hayesmodem
Just a quick update
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bill rowe
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#150
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Just a quick update on this. I have a BBS (Synchronet) running enough that I can dial-in from another PC and connect properly. I started with the Hayesmodem 300, which was painful, and then changed to
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Richard Cini
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#149
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Re: A modern BBS
Hi,
I'm using his "P112-4 Port LAN" card.
http://stack180.com/P112%20Photos.htm#4PortLAN
http://stack180.com/images/P112-LAN.JPG
"The production 4-Port LAN adapter provides 4 LAN-based 10/100BaseT
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Mark Thomas
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#148
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Re: A modern BBS
I have p112 and a question about "Terry’s Ethernet p112 serial adapter board".? What did you get from Terry's site to connect the p112 serial to the Ethernet?? Just the "LAN Terminal
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David Jones
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#147
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Re: A modern BBS
The last several are good examples of how you can get from the 'net to a
old school system being CP/M based on a PDP-11 that is sans native
networking.? The interface between the network and the 80
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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#146
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Re: A modern BBS
Hi,
I telnet to my p112 cp/m system console, via Terry’s Ethernet p112 serial adapter board. It even automatically powers & boots upon establishment of the telnet
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Mark Thomas
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#145
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Re: A modern BBS
Chiming in here:
I still use LINKSYS WRT-54G wireless routers running DD-WRT. They all support TELNET logins (port 23), which is the insecure predecessor to SSH (port 22). I use TELNET to log into
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SCOTT VITALE
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#144
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Re: A modern BBS
A description of Citadel one of many BBS system Another quite popular was RBBS and BBS.
BBS systems did a few things:
File sharing (upload and download) (X,Y Z, modem and other protocals)
a mail
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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#143
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Re: A modern BBS
Bill,
There is no known to me TELNET for Z80, those BBS ran either DOS or a flavor
of unix like software [Netware, Venix, Minix] on 8088 or later than 1986ish
maybe 286 or 386 hardware.
Telnet to a
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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#142
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Re: A modern BBS
A direct solution is instead of POTS (old skool term for the basic phone service) compatible modem
at the end of a serial line use one of the serial connected Ethernet or Wifi modems.
Or use a
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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#141
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Re: A modern BBS
The “modem emulator” programs, like the link I sent the other day, will basically traffic serial over Ethernet using a PC, sort of like the all-in-one solutions from Olimex and Wiznet (??) which
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Richard Cini
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#140
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Re: A modern BBS
bill rowe wrote:
I've never run across telnet. I'll have to look it up and see what it is!
If it's capable of functioning as a serial link between two computers, I would think it could work with any
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Lee Hart
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#139
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Re: A modern BBS
I can't help thinking telnet is a good answer to this. it gives you a tty interface over the internet with simple hardware and can be run on small systems. I know there are telnet bbs's - i just
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bill rowe
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#138
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Re: A modern BBS
ajparent1/kb1gmx wrote:
I once got a used S-100 computer (made by SD Sales around 1980) that worked like that. It ran MP/M, and had a 4 MHz Z80 as its "master" CPU, 256k of banked RAM, a Corvus hard
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Lee Hart
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#137
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