"Steven Lichter" <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote in message
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Terry Olsen wrote:
Has anyone ever thought of running their old BBS just like they did in
the heyday??? With actual Apple hardware, an analog modem, and a phone
line? Now that MagicJack has come into existence, $40 to purchase, and
$20 per year of service with free long distance, seems to me it would be
entirely possible to have a bunch of Apple II bbs's to call once again.
Sysops would not have to shell out a monthly payment for a 2nd phone line
and users wouldn't have to worry about long distance phone charges to
call. No-brainer, eh?
So would there be any interest? Are there any sysops who would consider
running a BBS like this? In the next month or so, I'll probably go buy a
MagicJack, put mine online, and see what happens. Anyone else?
You would need to run the Magic Jack with a PC or Intel Mac, I would guess
from there you could plug a modem into the phone jack then to your Apple.
I have a Magic Jack, but I have never tried a modem on it. There might be
problems since the system requires compression. I know years ago when
Sprint has PC Pursuit it required special drivers to allow the Apple BBS
software t o run on it.
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If you're going to end up using a PC in any case, there are a number of
freeware TELNET-to-RS232 programs around that will let users TELNET to your
BBS using your existing internet connection. This assumes, of course, that
you've got some sort of "always-on" connection.
I tired a couple of them several years back, but ended up going a different
route using software specific to the system I was/am running (TBBS system on
PC-DOS). The only other issue you might have is your ISP blocking inbound
port 23 connections, but the software that I tried allowed you to select
other ports so you can work around that one.
I've just looked through my HD and I can't find any links to the stuff I
tried, but some enterprising Google-ing may come up with something. I seem
to recall that the guy who had written it was using it to run a BBS on a
C64, but it worked fine with other modem-based BBS's.