| This is a ham radio Packet BBS, so the M100 would be hooked to a TNC which is connected to a radio. This could sit in the shack next to the radio and picked up as part of a go kit. Packet radio used to be a bigger part of “nets” used for message passing.
Many ham radio operators like to be able to go portable for various reasons including emergency response support.
Kimberley Hart She/Her KC2OUT kimberley082...@gmail.com (732) 691-1560 On Nov 1, 2023, at 6:57 AM, Alex ... <abortretryf...@gmail.com> wrote:
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. 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.
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