Re: WaZaBoo! BBS 216-382-7040

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

"Gavin Picknell" <gpnz@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi Terry,
>
> I was just wondering about how you went about enabling your apple II
> BBS for telnet access, I'm guessing a PC in the middle with net
> access, and Apple II connected to PC via a serial port with some
> software on the PC to listen for telnet connections and convert into
> serial for the Apple II BBS access (along with the appropriate modem
> commands?). Anyway, I'm interested in that kind of stuff and was just
> wondering how you did it if you dont mind me asking :)


Correct. I had the BBS connected to a PC via null-modem cable.  I wrote a
program in Visual Basic that listened to a telnet port and pretended to be a
modem for the BBS.  Worked pretty good...  Then they kept raising the price
of Cable Internet and I had to shut it off...