Exec-PC BBS

Sean, Thanks for all the excellent info. The Asterisk machine was really interesting (having my own exchange in home!) until I began reading about it some more. I think it is a bit over my head to get it going. Although it would be very cool to have a multi-node PC Board that can be "dialed in to" by all the vintage systems at home! Is there cheap HW (i.e. older tech/used tech) that I can get for a plug and chug implementation or do I need to have a good understanding to be implementing something like this? -Ali -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Sean Caron Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 8:39 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts; Sean Caron Subject: Re: Exec-PC BBS There have been some sporadic efforts to try and get modem-over-VoIP working on the Collectors Net (www.ckts.info) but it's tricky and results can be inconsistent. Eventually we do hope to be able to fully support all modes that were used with the POTS network. For local demos, just within your own premises, you can use an old PBX, a Cisco multiservice router, or an Asterisk machine to provide a decent facsimile of the POTS network given a few computers with modems. Now that I have so many POTS ports available, it makes me wish that I had kept more modems!! Last time I checked, there are still some Telnet based boards out there... A not trivial number of them probably run Synchronet because the author continues to maintain the software for use with current versions of Windows and Linux: http://www.synchro.net/ There's a little BBS list on the site; you should find at least a few of them to be active (well, at least, "up"). That's not to mention UNIX based conferencing systems a little bit outside the vein of the traditional PC-based BBS experience (i.e. Grex) which have managed to survive to modern times as well. Best, Sean On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Eric Smith <spacewar at gmail.com> wrote: