15 Jun
2004
15 Jun
'04
5:45 a.m.
On Jun 15, 17:22, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
>I'd love to see the server-side of things
running somewhere again
>though.
>
>It'd be nice to have a Prestel server at Bletchley with some
assorted
>80's machines hooked up to it (bodging the
phone network inbetween
:)
>but chances are that nobody's got a copy of
the necessary server
>software any more :-(
I should still have enough equipment and software
about to set up at
least
two of the various BBC-micro based servers which I ran
at various
times,
including the multi-user software that the GnomeAtHome
ran on which I
had
an official copy of...
Wasn't that basically CommunITeL? I still have a copy, and I think I
have a copy of at least one other server package for a Beeb. I used to
run a viewdata BBS for a short while.
(Ah, the joys of building ring-detect circuits for
cheap and nasty
1200
baud modems that didn't have them..)
'cause BABT made it so difficult (and ludicrously expensive) to get
approval. I built one that did ringback in hardware, so we could tell
whether it was a BBS call or a real person (only had one phone line).
For those who've not come across this usage of "ringback", it means a
system where the caller hangs up after the first ring, then immediately
redials. The modem only responds if the first ring is short enough,
and the second follows after a minimum (but still within a maximum)
time.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York