BBS Box

Due to massive amounts of caffeine & sleep deprivation, Hotze said: How many multiple connections? What kind of speed per connection? Do you also want to use the machine for yourself at the same time? These do make a difference, for you could run 2 connections at 2400 baud on a 2Mhz CoCo 3 w/512K RAM. All you need is a way to interface the ports (or build your own.) Under OS-9, you may even have enough CPU over to play Rogue (tho not quickly). With a 6309 processor and NitrOS-9, you could most easily do this setup and still use the machine for yourself. (And yes, someone *has* designed an overclocking circuit to run a 6x09 at 4Mhz, except during memory accesses which does gain you a fair amount of speed... ;-) In the IBM world, I'd say for 4 dial up lines at 9600/14.4 you'd need a minimum of a 386DX 25 w/8 Megs RAM, running Dos/Linux (Windows not spoken here... too much overhead) and decent BBS software and you'd have no problem whatsoever. (Again, with Linux, you may still be able to use the machine for background tasks for yourself without harming that speed... but not big jobs, of course.) Anyway, YMMV, HTH, HSIYE (Here's Spit In Your Eye... ;-) and all that jazz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger Merchberger | Why does Hershey's put nutritional Programmer, NorthernWay | information on their candy bar wrappers zmerch(a)northernway.net | when there's no nutritional value within?