[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia (fwd)

2022-08-01 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
Ok I know  what I am watching  tonight! Thanks!  Ed# Sent from the all new AOL app for Android On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 5:22 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: The greatest ever video about pre-WWW internet was "Hyperland". a 1991 BBC documentary by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson, and also

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 8/1/22 18:58, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk wrote: > Thank you Chuck. You’re right, I’ve never heard of Auntie. Thanks for > letting me know about it, but I’m mainly interested in the more mainstream > ones. Well, it depends, Auntie was the software for ATT-PAC as well as Walnut Creek

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia (fwd)

2022-08-01 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
The greatest ever video about pre-WWW internet was "Hyperland". a 1991 BBC documentary by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson, and also starring Tom Baker. A few years BEFORE WWW, it predicted the future of the internet. https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland If you want subtitles/captions,

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread Will Cooke via cctalk
In case you aren't aware of it, there was a bbs magazine. Just ran across this: https://archive.org/details/bbsmagazine Will You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. Marvin Minsky

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
The computer shoppers in the ‘80s and 90’s were full of BBS listings. Might look there. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 1, 2022, at 18:58, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk > wrote: > >  > >> On Aug 1, 2022, at 11:49 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk >> wrote: >> >>> On 8/1/22 06:26, Ryan de Laplante

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread Ryan de Laplante via cctalk
> On Aug 1, 2022, at 11:49 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On 8/1/22 06:26, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk wrote: >> Over the years I have been collecting BBS related memorabilia such as Night >> Owl shareware CDs, Boardwatch magazine, BBS magazine, books, manuals, >> original disks,

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia (fwd)

2022-08-01 Thread Will Cooke via cctalk
Apparently there was a BBS magazine. Just happened across this. https://archive.org/details/bbsmagazine Will You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. Marvin Minsky

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia (fwd)

2022-08-01 Thread Ryan de Laplante via cctalk
> On Aug 1, 2022, at 8:21 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > > The greatest ever video about pre-WWW internet was "Hyperland". > a 1991 BBC documentary by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson, and also starring Tom > Baker. > A few years BEFORE WWW, it predicted the future of the internet. > >

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia (fwd)

2022-08-01 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
The greatest ever video about pre-WWW internet was "Hyperland". a 1991 BBC documentary by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson, and also starring Tom Baker. A few years BEFORE WWW, it predicted the future of the internet. https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland If you want

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread Mike Katz via cctalk
You might want to try contacting Ward Christensen.  He is the creator of the original CBBS in Chicago along with Randy Suess. Ward's linked in is:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/wardchristensen. On 8/1/2022 2:15 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2022, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk

[cctalk] Searching for software for Tektronix 4970 Cluster Controller

2022-08-01 Thread Alexander Huemer via cctalk
Hi The Tektronix 4970 does something similar to an IBM 3174 or 3708. It hooks up terminals to an IBM mainframe, in this case Tektronix graphics terminals, see [1], p.36ff. Is anybody here in possession of the software that runs on it? -Alex [1]

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk wrote: Has anyone ever seen promotional videos showing Prodigy, Compuserv, Delphi, GENie, AOL? I've collected disks, but the systems are long gone so archived video is all we have to remember them by. When I was young, I remember seeing disks

[cctalk] Re: Connecting a physical terminal via LAN to Serial Port

2022-08-01 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 1, 2022, at 11:38 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk > wrote: > >> >> For an extra $1 now you can get integrated WiFi (and Bluetooth but >> there isn't any BT software support yet) in the form of the $5 Pi >> Pico W, so that's one route to talking to an IP network for IoT or >>

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 8/1/22 9:00 AM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: Just a heads up in case you aren't familiar, there is a project out there where someone was pulling data from Prodigy cache directories (from installed software that was used, on old computers.) They were working to re-create Prodigy. I'm

[cctalk] Re: Connecting a physical terminal via LAN to Serial Port

2022-08-01 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> > For an extra $1 now you can get integrated WiFi (and Bluetooth but > there isn't any BT software support yet) in the form of the $5 Pi > Pico W, so that's one route to talking to an IP network for IoT or > something like this. > > A neat thing about the Pico is that you can do hard real-time

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 8/1/22 06:26, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk wrote: > Over the years I have been collecting BBS related memorabilia such as Night > Owl shareware CDs, Boardwatch magazine, BBS magazine, books, manuals, > original disks, etc. Does anyone have any BBS memorabilia they might be > willing to sell

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
Has anyone ever seen promotional videos showing Prodigy, Compuserv, Delphi, GENie, AOL? I've collected disks, but the systems are long gone so archived video is all we have to remember them by. When I was young, I remember seeing disks and pamphlets for these services in the box when

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread W2HX via cctalk
>“yellow pages” Do you recall what this was called? I remember (vaguely) something called the "Yanoff List" which was an attempt at a paper catalog of websites. 73 Eugene W2HX Subscribe to my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/w2hx-channel/videos -Original Message- From: Ryan

[cctalk] BBS memorabilia

2022-08-01 Thread Ryan de Laplante via cctalk
Over the years I have been collecting BBS related memorabilia such as Night Owl shareware CDs, Boardwatch magazine, BBS magazine, books, manuals, original disks, etc. Does anyone have any BBS memorabilia they might be willing to sell to me? I’m particularly interested in PCBoard

[cctalk] Cheap Lantronix Hardware

2022-08-01 Thread Jonathan Chapman via cctalk
All, Per the LAN-attached serial thread, here's another cheap Lantronix device: https://www.ebay.com/itm/123577635191 This is a LRS-2, which is basically a two-port LRS-1, one of their older models of serial bridges. The LRS-2 is nice not only for the two ports, but because it also has AUI

[cctalk] Re: Connecting a physical terminal via LAN to Serial Port

2022-08-01 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jul 31, 2022, at 7:25 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk > wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 2:29 PM Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: >> Yet another one is Raspberry Pico, >> >> Neither of these come standard with Ethernet, though I've seen option cards. >> In the case of Pico, it seems

[cctalk] Re: Connecting a physical terminal via LAN to Serial Port

2022-08-01 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022, Fritz Mueller wrote: +1 for the Digi Portserver for this application. I recently grabbed one off eBay, because I have a number of vintage terminals here which I would like to ?crossbar? to a number of vintage computers with serial terminal support, and also provide both

[cctalk] Re: How to reproduce the DEC cabinets' grey colour paint?

2022-08-01 Thread P Gebhardt via cctalk
Hello list, > > >My attempt at the colors from several years ago. > >http://www.chdickman.com/pdp8/DECcolors/ > >CHM = Color Harmony Manual Many thanks to those (especially Charles and Vincent) who gave me pointers on how to reproduce the DEC grey colour of the DEC cabinets. I wasn't aware

[cctalk] Re: Connecting a physical terminal via LAN to Serial Port

2022-08-01 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sat, 30 Jul 2022, Ali wrote: modern system using an IP:port schema. This works great except I don't get to play with my shiny, new to me, authentic experience terminal device. Why not? You attach the terminal to your terminal server, too, and connect from the terminal to one of the other