[Coco] CoCo does wireless telnet

[Roger Taylor]

Someone here posted a link a few months back for the InternetModem 
page.  I just googled up the site and the first thing I noticed was 
the Visual Basic 2005 source code link.  I grabbed the source code 
and rebuilt the a VS 2008 project from it.  The utility (at minimum) 
does exactly what I expected.  It acts like it's a modem and responds 
to a remote terminal just like a modem responds when you issue AT commands.

The only difference in my case is I'm talking wirelessly to the fake 
modem with my bluetooth pak on a CoCo 3.

In addition, I'm also able to telnet around!   I just ATDT'ed into a 
freenet site (not by phone number, but by IP) and it connects at 
19200 and spits out the text just like the old BBS days.  So, this is 
my first wireless internet session over the bluetooth pak.  It's 
obviously not a direct connection but it doesn't matter because a 
connection is a connection is a connection.  :)  Lose the wires, and 
it just makes it seem even more like a direct connection.

Any nice CoCo comm program that has an autodialer without 
restrictions on the phone number format can just use the telnet 
server addresses instead, and you connect just like you're dialing in.

I just left the CoCo alone for 5 minutes and I now see "NO CARRIER" 
on Ultimaterm's screen.  The telnet server timed out at the login 
prompt.  Before I got the login prompt I got an 80x24 screen full of 
ASCII-arranged "graphics" just like the good ole days.

I'm not sure whether the author of InternetModem plans to expand it 
or not, but I've got the source code and open for ideas.  :)

Not to be confused with my CoCoNet system which will fetch web pages 
and files via HTTP requests, all from BASIC.
-- 
Roger Taylor

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