1 Aug
2005
1 Aug
'05
11:23 a.m.
On Monday 01 August 2005 12:23, Brad Parker wrote:
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
If anyone here needs or wants some Xylogics Annex Three boxes (64 serial
ports per box), I've got at least two available, with some of the
serial breakout cables.
Another option would be a DECserver that does reverse LAT, or a Xyplex
terminal server, which is very much like a clone of a DECserver, only
it has telnet capability in addition to LAT (and telnet is a nice thing
to have ;).
Pat
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I'm thinking back to the original intent of
this. Is it that the
guy wanting to do this (sorry, forgot who you are) wants to put a
computer running a BBS on the internet? If so, all these
suggestions are overkill. The best one I've heard so far is to get
something that fools the computer into thinking it's connected to a
modem when in actuality it's connected to some sort of terminal
server that emulates ring signals, etc. This is also something
that is somewhat easy to write with the write serial port driver
software. A linux box will do.
Oh. Now I get it.
I'd find an old terminal server which has "reverse telnet". An
Xylogics Annex would do nicely. Then connect the serial ports on the
annex directly to the BBS box, removing the modems. No need for the
modems...