31 Oct
1997
31 Oct
'97
1:36 p.m.
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From: Brett <danjo(a)xnet.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: BBS Box
Date: Saturday, November 01, 1997 4:35 AM
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Hotze wrote:
Huh? I hope you mean text based versus graphics here 8-)
Anything will be fine, but I want as much graphics cabilities as possible.
I'm really ready to learn, but at
this time of writing, I only have the 486/66, and an 080880/8Mhz, which
dosn't work. I really just want to make something for my friends and I
to
meet on... here, Internet is still expensive, and most
people refust to
upgrade to anything past Netscape 2.0. I need really to know about
multiple phone/modems. The phone isn't a problem, the modem is. How
much
do the 4800's run for? I've already got two
modems, one a 2400
sendf/9600
recieve, and another a 33.6 both ways. I really need
to know what to do,
the whole smackum, as I'm very "computer literate", in DOS and Windows,
but
rather inexperianced with this kind of stuff.
Ciao,
Tim D. Hotze
Tim - go right for Linux! Don't even think of FIDO
- well think about it
8-)
I only have a 28.8 connection, and I don't know where I can get an
inexpensive Linux OS. Maybe you can help me. OR CAN ANYONE ELSE HERE HELP
ME?
If you get UUCP support, you can acutally become a
local provider. If your
buddies want web pages and a shell account to play with Linux is your best
bet. You can - with UUCP - even allow Internet EMail - and even even
access other systems if you set up your system correctly. You can send and
recieve email and files - oh say 4-8 times a day - more frequently if you
want and all of them will transfer in one shot so it is *like* FIDOnet.
Can you help
me with that? Explain more. That's very interesting.
I run Linux 2.0.28/9 on two machines - one is my
dedicated comms server
with diald to make the connection and it has a HTTP server with EMail.
We only connect with one modem and everybody uses the same connection at
the same time.
Yeah, but here, a dedicated connection costs about $10,000 a month.
I
don't even want to think of that. Possibly I could just connect then
disconnect really quickly.
Get whatever modems you want to use - a multiple port
serial card will
let you run as many modems as you can afford 8-) 16-32 way too many
phones lines to afford! DO NOT use internals - even with M$ stuff!
Okay, no
internals. But don't worry about the phone lines. 1: it's only
5, and 2. I can get them free.
FIDO net was set up to allow home computers to run like
UUCP machines
(when they were the *rage*) so why not use the real thing?
Why not? But I want to do
this on my home computer :-)
Just my $0.48 worth 8-)
BC