[Coco] Multi-user CoCo BBS via telnet [WAS - Re: Are there any CoCo BBS's out there?]

[mike delyea]

To my mind you gotta use a real coco.  I think doing otherwise would violate
the spirit of this community.

On 8/3/07, Rod Barnhart <rod.barnhart at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> On 8/3/07, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:

> > Of course an FPGA CoCo running at 16MHz could have a very large number

> > of UARTs or ACIAs implemented in its logic, and could support several

> > users quite comfortably.  There your limiting factor could be available

> > physical I/O lines (maybe not, I don't know how many of those are free

> > for use on the development systems) and phone lines, modems, or RS-232

> > <-> Ethernet adapters.  But I think one could put together a pretty

> > spiffy NitrOS-9 BBS with an FPGA CoCo.

> >

> > JCE

>

> Now I have an interesting dilemma. I'm not going to give up my only

> CoCo3 for this project beyond getting it to actually work. After that,

> I'll have to purchase additional hardware to dedicate to the project.

> Should I go with real CoCo hardware, or with an FPGA CoCo? Learning

> curve will be about the same for either, as I have no experience

> designing serial cards for the CoCo (but am encouraged by others who

> have done so in the past), nor with working with FPGA's. The cost of

> real hardware might be a little higher, but which way has the bigger

> coolness factor?

>

> BTW, thanks to Richard Ivey for inspiring the idea of this project by

> asking about dialup coco BBSes. Sorry the conversation was sorta

> highjacked from there ;)

>

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