Comments on BBS: Get your retro on! tech, food, nerd, rant, and other four-letter words 2016-02-09T19:48:14Z http://jerkwerks.com/bbs-get-your-retro-on/feed/atom/ By: Skip Thompson Skip Thompson http://jerkwerks.com/?p=1003#comment-7964 2016-02-09T19:48:14Z 2016-02-09T19:48:14Z Hi. Just a note to say that Dura-Europos mentioned by Gene Buckle has been resurrected from backup disks and is now up on the internet. It is still running on an Apple IIe, with a couple modern components. I was the sysop of Dura-Europos and am now retired. :)

It’s telnet address is telnet://dura-bbs.net:6359

Skip (aka ‘Trajan’ back in the day)

]]> By: datajerk datajerk http://jerkwerks.com/?p=1003#comment-3212 2013-03-15T17:46:01Z 2013-03-15T17:46:01Z I actually purchased one of those so that I could try that, however it didn’t work for basic phone calls. The seller gave me a refund, and never asked for it back. I will try a different supplier. I have limited hope since mobile phones lossy compress the audio.

]]> By: Rasputin, Russia's Greatest Love Machine Rasputin, Russia's Greatest Love Machine http://jerkwerks.com/?p=1003#comment-3211 2013-03-14T23:17:15Z 2013-03-14T23:17:15Z I’d imagine an acoustic coupler with one of those novelty old-telephone-receiver-shaped wired iPhone headsets snugly cradled could let an 8-bit machine connect to a faraway BBS with little to no long-distance cost, as long as there’s a clear connection. with voice calls usually cheap in cellphone plans these days, why is there not a revival of the BBS?

]]> By: Gene Buckle Gene Buckle http://www.f15sim.com http://jerkwerks.com/?p=1003#comment-68 2011-03-28T14:00:17Z 2011-03-28T14:00:17Z Very cool, thanks for posting this! Hopefully the board will see more use. The Land of Spur game can be a lot of fun.

g.

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