Re: Hello from Kentucky
By: Aquishix to Alec Aaron Roberts on Wed Feb 21 2018 04:12 am

Re: Hello from Kentucky
By: Alec Aaron Roberts to DaiTengu on Tue Apr 18 2017 10:06 pm

Pfff...I'm using Lync 3.2 in actual MS-DOS 6.22 on a vintage system I just

I would love to keep getting older and older with the systems I use...
Anyway, I'm using a PowerBook G3 ATM. I also have a US Robotics 56k modem running through a USB-Serial adapter to my W10 Ryzen PC. SOO much power
for such a low-end task :P I might see if my college can hook me up with
some extra phone lines to start my own BBS server... without using TCP/IP
at all. Another project for another day...

Look forward to talking,
Ed Green @sciencedude100

Re: Hello from NY
By: Ed Green to Aquishix on Thu Mar 15 2018 02:07 am

I would love to keep getting older and older with the systems I use... Anyway, I'm using a PowerBook G3 ATM. I also have a US Robotics 56k modem running through a USB-Serial adapter to my W10 Ryzen PC. SOO much power for such a low-end task :P I might see if my college can hook me up with some extra phone lines to start my own BBS server... without using TCP/IP at all. Another project for another day...

There are a few dialup-only BBSes still out there, but they're very few and very far between. I don't even know if I could find one by searching my usual haunts.

It'd be an interesting project. I get about 5-6 dialup calls to this BBS a week, and would love to see more. My wife keeps ragging on my for spending
$20 a month on the phone line, and I want to show her it's worth it :)

DaiTengu

... QWK? I don't need no stinkin' QWK packet!

Re: Hello from NY
By: DaiTengu to Ed Green on Thu Mar 15 2018 11:13 pm

... I get about 5-6 dialup calls to this BBS a
week, and would love to see more.

I wish I had a group of friends that were into this
kind of stuff at college. I would love to see more
people use Dial-Up BBS's as well. Maybe worth
something to guage interest in if I go to the Vintage
Computer Festival East.

- Ed Green
@sciencedude100

Re: Hello from NY
By: Ed Green to DaiTengu on Sun Mar 18 2018 08:32 pm

I wish I had a group of friends that were into this
kind of stuff at college. I would love to see more
people use Dial-Up BBS's as well. Maybe worth
something to guage interest in if I go to the Vintage
Computer Festival East.

I get why people aren't. I do it for the nostalgia factor, as I remember the days of calling BBSes quite fondly. But I still look forward when it comes to modern technology, I need faster internet, I want the latest do-dads and gizmos, I spend boatloads of money keeping my desktop PC on the cutting edge so I can play the latest games.

Some people just don't want to go backwards, and if they do, it's just a "oh, that's neat!" feeling, then they never do it again. I completely understand. Either way, I'll keep this BBS up for either group! :)

DaiTengu

... An argument is where two people are trying to get the LAST word in FIRST!

Re: Hello from NY
By: DaiTengu to Ed Green on Thu Mar 15 2018 11:13 pm

As to dialup, it's funny - maybe - I want to say 3 years ago but time is going so fast now, it is probably double that, I had some problem with my landline, which I used for work.

I called Centurylink and they sent a guy out The line had gone completely dead. He opened the box outside and then...disappeared.

Left all of his tools, the box open, everything...just...vanished.

It was at that point that I decided not to bother. I called Centurylink to tell them that their repairman was abducted by greys, or something, and they sent a truck to pick up the tools. But I cancelled service. I hadn't ever lived without landline service to that point.

Sometimes I get the urge to dial out on a modem - but it's rarely a BBS. I get the urge to Wardial because I mean seriously, if any computers answer in your local area, they're probably going to be interesting, it being 2019.

And then I realized just what a complete and absolute *dick move* wardialing was and is. As it is now, I get maybe a half dozen robocalls a day on my cell.

And you know it'd be *me* the phone company busted (beyond being a real annoyance to the locals.)

I saw a presentation on YouTube a few years ago about using a VoIP line to dial access points to still existing X.25 networks in India and then exploring those old X.25 networks (which apparently still exist, at least, there.) Then I read a whole bunch of articles about how modems don't work right on VoIP.

Has anyone done this? Or anything like wardialing?

The closest we have is portscanning and Shodan - and I love Shodan. I just wonder what old systems are still out there answering phones.

As to those X.25 networks, I wonder what of interest is on those. Last I heard in the US they were used by banks and the like which, because of my advanced age, would kind of be boring to me these days.

The corporatization of the web, and the centralization of the web, has made me thirsty again.