It's not that surprising. The machine has a built in modem and battery backup. You could just hook it up in a telco closet and have a BBS up in no time.
Don't know how you'd use a TPDD at the same time since it hogs the serial port. Support for saving files to cassette would probably be more useful. On Wed, Nov 1, 2023, 01:04 Hiraghm <hira...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I was just visiting a website of BBS links by platform, when I was > shocked to come across an entry for PBBS... for the Model 100... in BASIC. > > here's a link to the site's entry on the M100 PBBS: > > http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/TANDY/MODEL100/PBBS/ > > it is not surprisingly very limited.. but it's written in BASIC... > > There's also a CP/M version of PBBS, but it appears to be written in > assembler, not BASIC: > > http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/AACPM/CPM/PBBS/ > > > I thought some on here might be interested in toying with it. Maybe > customizing it to work with the REX or TDDP drive to expand its > capabilities. > > I'm just boggled that someone wrote a BBS for the Model 100. > >
