Son and I's Project- Recreating the Dial in ISP Experience

My son who is 9 loves vintage computers and telephones like me, So we figured why not combine our hobbies into one big project. We want to recreate the fun of the unix dial in days, and dialing in via PPP to the internet. The goal eventually will be to have 12 lines serving up Shell and PPP access via VOIP inbound at speeds around 14.4. So all of you who have old machines that have modems unused, youll be able to call into one of the inbound numbers and get online via shell and PPP. Accounts on the system will be free. Depending on what type of system you use will determine the access number. We plan to have a Sun Sparcstation 5 running SunOS 4.1.4 for dial in access, an HP 712 running HP UX 9.0, and a NeXTstation. Adding more as we find more older unix machines to put on the system as we go. Our project for the Mason Michigan Phone show was demonstrating analog modem connections from computer to computer through a PBX. It was a hit, We had the commodore 64 calling the Mac 512 and then both machines calling out to DiversiDial Station #34 on C*NET. We plan to use the following hardware Asterisk Server to handle call routing and C*NET connections Sun SparcStation 5 Running SunOS 4.1.4 HP 712 running HP UX 9.0.4 NeXTstation running NeXTstep 3.3 A regular old linux box providing shell and PPP access. It gives you a good reason to dust off those old computers, fire up your favorite terminal program and off you go :)