[Coco] Are there any CoCo BBS's out there?

[Mike Pepe]

Rod Barnhart wrote:
> On 8/3/07, Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net> wrote:
>> George's Coco Address wrote:
>>
>> Hey, that brings back memories. I hacked together an board with 8 2661
>> chips and wrote software to emulate a Ddial system with a CoCo 3. It
>> worked. Yes, the CoCo can handle more than one user. However the TCP to
>> Serial port idea doesn't necessarily mean one can have "infinite" users
>> on the CoCo- it would be one user per physical serial port.
>>
>> But, regardless, it was fun building a multiuser chat system out of a
>> CoCo 3.
>>
> 
> Any chance you still have that software floating around somewhere? ;)
> I realize that the limitation is the number of physical ports, but
> it's very nice to know that yes, the CoCo hardware can handle it. This
> is definitely going on my list of projects for when I have spare time.
> If I can rediscover what spare time is ;)
> 
> 

I probably do, somewhere. Though I don't know how useful it would be 
without the hardware I designed for it.

But, hey, if an Apple IIe running at 1MHz could run an 8-line DDial, I 
figured a 2MHz CoCo 3 should be able to do so easily.

-Mike