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Spend some time on a Citadel. It was actually ok. 1200 is readable but you need to pay really close attention. :) The 1541 disks were 170k or so and took *forever* it seemed. :) A ton of effort has gone into using old bbs programs and platforms on the 'net. There are a number of tools like this: http://home.ica.net/~leifb/bbs/ which is used to put real C-64's up on the net running a bbs. There are other programs out there that do similar things, including fancy device drivers that look like a modem & comm port to windows, but there's a socket on the other end instead of a modem. Many of the older bbs programs that have source available were done using Turbo Pascal and those are easily recompiled under Linux using FPC. I've actually built a port of Telegard 2.7 that runs perfectly under Linux. The only thing that is missing form most of these "glue" solutions is encryption. It wouldn't be too hard to build a version that used SSH instead of regular telnet... g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.