Running over POTS has it's appeal from a historical standpoint but from
a speed standpoint IP is orders of magnitude faster.
I think the term I was looking for is Fidonet Echomail Co-ordinator.
And net 115 was the Chicago area.
On 5/4/2023 10:30 AM, geneb wrote:
On Thu, 4 May 2023, Mike Katz wrote:
I closed down my BBS nearly 30 years ago. I ran Bit Wiz Opus
(115/689) for a long time. I've forgotten what it was called in
FidoNet but my system was the gateway for net 115 to the back bone
for several years. At a telephone cost of over $100/month. I shut
it down sometime in the early 90's. It ran on a 10MHz 286.
It's nice to hear that Fidonet still exists though with direct email,
blogs, forums, etc. I'm quite surprised.
But then, I play with 50 year old PDP-8 computers so who am I wonder
why people keep old technology running?.
While there are still some nodes running on POTS, it's mostly over IP
these days.
g.
