Hey dave! bbs.eevblog.com

[FennecTECH]

do you think you could make a bbs.eevblog.com forum link?     the ol BBS days?

[Whales]

Alternative: browse the forums with a modern text-only browser like elinks

Bonus: one of the fastest web-browsers in the world.  Sometimes you don't care for the latest effects and just want to read to text portion of the web.

[jancumps]

This is how it would have materialized on my amber monitor in those days:

[FennecTECH]

i love the elinks browser  but what im talkiong about is anstiad of going to www.eevblog.com/forums   i want to use bbs.eevblog.com!

[David_AVD]

You have to ask yourself how many people would want or use something like that?   

[steve30]

You have to ask yourself how many people would want or use something like that?   

I would

[FennecTECH]

if i want it   then everyone must want it! #foxlogic

[Rory]

Now, if it could run independent of the internet, without long distance charges, it would something to think about!

[FennecTECH]

well first you would have to take your tinfoil hat off

[n45048]

You have to ask yourself how many people would want or use something like that?   

I would

Me too! Either using my Commodore 64 or my IBM PS/2. Nothing more than 9600 baud please ;-)

[Rory]

well first you would have to take your tinfoil hat off

No need to be rude.
I wasn't talking about privacy issues.

[miguelvp]

Now, if it could run independent of the internet, without long distance charges, it would something to think about!

Packet radio perhaps?

[David_AVD]

Carrier pigeons with floppy disks I say!

[FennecTECH]

what are floppy disks     some new kind of ferite core memory?

[miguelvp]

My grandma wants her needle point back FennecTECH.

Edit: come to think of it, might be cool to actually have a core memory needle point sweater

Next big geek thing for awful winter sweaters!
Extra bonus points if the sweater actually works as core memory!

[FennecTECH]

that   actually might be neat!i want one    but first i would have to figure out exactly how core ememory works      and it might be chilly since the whole thing will be rather breezy and its made from metal and ferrite

[miguelvp]

The ferrites go on the outside of the sweater not in the inside, they just hold a magnetic charge and when you read them they are erased so you have to rewrite them again.

[FennecTECH]

sounds rather ineficent   im only 20  so  its probally WAY before my time  but it sure looks sexy!   flash aint beautiful like that

[Stonent]

You have to ask yourself how many people would want or use something like that?   

I would

You are true to your name, sir!

[Stonent]

How about an 80s style BBS written to run on an AVR or PIC?  You'd just have to put most of the code in external flash, but it could be done.

[FennecTECH]

just put it on a PI

[SirNick]

Does this forum have a files section?  How about door games?  Gotta have my LORD. ^_^

[madires]

Me too! Either using my Commodore 64 or my IBM PS/2. Nothing more than 9600 baud please ;-)

Still got it wrong It's 9600 bps and the corresponding de/encoding runs at 2400 baud. Just nitpicking

[n45048]

Me too! Either using my Commodore 64 or my IBM PS/2. Nothing more than 9600 baud please ;-)

Still got it wrong It's 9600 bps and the corresponding de/encoding runs at 2400 baud. Just nitpicking

I stand corrected :-)

[miguelvp]

In the mid-late 90s with a 28.8Kbps modem you could do quite a bit even with 3 second lag including voice.
People now are spoiled and it's just too easy now, and they still don't get it right

[n45048]

In the mid-late 90s with a 28.8Kbps modem you could do quite a bit

Absolutely! Remember CuSeeMe?

[TheBay]

what are floppy disks     some new kind of ferite core memory?

Here you go, make a new USB stick out of this 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USSR-Soviet-Russian-Military-Ferrite-Core-Memory-Stack-Cube-MANUAL-QUITE-RARE-/381002724362?_trksid=p2054897.l4275

[Whales]

Here you go, make a new USB stick out of this 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USSR-Soviet-Russian-Military-Ferrite-Core-Memory-Stack-Cube-MANUAL-QUITE-RARE-/381002724362?_trksid=p2054897.l4275

I misread the eBay item title as "Core Memory Stick" and spent ten minutes looking for the USB port in the photos, very excited.