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

[mike delyea]

Forgot to add, does anybody know where I can get coco BBS software?  I'm
thinking I'll just go ahead and do the dial-up BBS thing anyway.

On 8/3/07, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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