Rod Smallwood wrote:
Hi
Thanks to a list member with a good memory I have managed to trace and
get running a copy of Fido BBS on my DEC Rainbow.
It's just about as I had it back in 1983 as Fido_UK1. I can run it on a
modem that would have been current in'83.
I now want to make it available via telnet. I do have a windows based
application that will convert a telnet connection to an emulated modem
connection.
However what would be really nice is to hook up a DECServer 200/mc to
convert an incoming Telnet call to a port emulating a modem.
That means the Rainbow would think it was connected to a modem. Connection
should be indicated by asserting DCD.
Is it possible? If so how?
I don't know anything about the DECServer .... however you might
be able to do this with Livingston (later Lucent) Portmaster 2. The
only part I don't know about is DCD.
I have succesfully used these in the past to provide serial console
access via
telnet sessions.
There was an earlier portmaster (portmaster 11 ???? (my memory is
lacking here))
that booted from a floppy. I've got one buried around here.... and I
tinkered with
it a bit... it lacks some features of the PM2... but as I recall you
could do the same
thing with it.... the Portmaster 2 would be easier to find however.
-- Curt
Regards
Rod Smallwood