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SimbaSeven
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Building my board..

Yep, I'm working on rebuilding my old BBS. I have a stack of USRobotics Courier 56k modems, an 8 port serial card, and an OptiPlex 360 w/4GB of RAM and several TBs of disk space.

Now, I just need to find out how much 8 phones lines (incoming only) will cost. Yes, I will be allowing Telnet and SSH access as well.

I will be using Synchronet on a Gentoo box since I can't use my WC! disks (too old).

tshirt
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join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA

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said by SimbaSeven:

Now, I just need to find out how much 8 phones lines (incoming only) will cost.

Can you successfully relay through VoIP lines, or do you need real copper? could give you a wider client base and save a few $$$ too.

CosmicDebri
Still looking for intelligent life
join:2001-09-01
Lake City, FL

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Good luck with that, (not sarcastic). I ran multi line BBS's on my Commie 64 then 128. Think it was 3 or 4 lines in..... hard to remember it was 2 lifetimes ago. I did run one on a pc for a bit, was either wildcat, or what was the other one, pcbbs or something like that??

But then the damn internet came along and it went the way of the dinosaurs....

Ah the good old days of Trade Wars.......
JPP
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Falls Church, VA

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I did too, RBBS and then PCBoard. Frontdoor for mail tossing. That was high tech back then.

IowaCowboy
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Is this '80s or '90s tech. I remember when you actually had a choice in internet and I had WebTV.

I just wish we could bring back the '90s, those were happier days for me.

SimbaSeven
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I had a copy of RoboBOARD/FX, but the disks got damaged while I was enlisted. I plan on being compatible with every system out there, including my old Atari 800XL, Commodore 64, and Apple IIgs.

The system will have enough disk space to handle disk images if anyone wants to upload them. I'll be supporting down to 300 baud, which is the minimum the Courier can handle.

I have ~13 Couriers, so I can support more lines if needed. I also have a few modified BasicTalk ATA's so I can test the VoIP theory.

tshirt
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said by IowaCowboy:

I remember when you actually had a choice in internet and I had WebTV.

before web TV, in fact before web. Early internet, and before was a very different place then you now see.

KrK
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Tulsa, OK

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I ran a board off of RemoteAccess, I think it was called.
lijacobs
join:2010-07-30
Woodmere, NY

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Back in "The Old Days" I ran a BBS on a DEC Rainbow with a 5 MB hard drive and another on an Osborne 1 with 2 90 KB floppies using Bell 212 1200 bps modems.
existenz
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wrong thread, delete.
dplantz
join:2000-08-02
Bradenton, FL

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25 or so per line including taxes so you are looking at 200+ for your monthly phone charges for that bbs system.

aaronwt
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Woodbridge, VA
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said by SimbaSeven:

Yep, I'm working on rebuilding my old BBS. I have a stack of USRobotics Courier 56k modems, an 8 port serial card, and an OptiPlex 360 w/4GB of RAM and several TBs of disk space.

Now, I just need to find out how much 8 phones lines (incoming only) will cost. Yes, I will be allowing Telnet and SSH access as well.

I will be using Synchronet on a Gentoo box since I can't use my WC! disks (too old).

People still use modems?
devolved
join:2012-07-11
Rapid City, SD

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I was using 56k dialup until about 4 years ago. Now everything is switched over to fiber and I have 30 mbit internet and IPTV.

SimbaSeven
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said by aaronwt:

People still use modems?

Some people still do. With some systems, it's the only way to connect to the outside world.