[Coco] Closing BBS

[lciotti1]

Yea I had a BBS up using MagicJack ind it worked fine.  The PBX you had 
was pretty cool in the video.  not knowing much about PBXs, but I assume 
something like that wold allow you to have extensions in your house with 
a common outside line...

> Chris Osborn <mailto:fozztexx at fozztexx.com>
> December 23, 2014 at 1:57 PM
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> VoIP for dialup works fine, I’m using it for my BBS. People have been 
> able to connect at 33.6k bps no problem. I’ve even got a video with a 
> demo:
>
> http://youtu.be/10MzaPKdPH8 <http://youtu.be/10MzaPKdPH8>
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> Robert Hermanek <mailto:rhermanek at centurytel.net>
> December 23, 2014 at 1:46 PM
> It's great that you were hosting a BBS in this day and age, I have a 
> lot of good memories of dialing phone numbers and getting busy 
> signals.  I was throwing around the idea, a year or so ago, of hosting 
> my own BBS for absolutely no reason other than I could.  But to keep 
> costs down, I wanted to use VoIP lines instead of land lines.  I 
> thought (at the time) that at 2400 baud, maybe a voip line would 
> work.  Well, I never did get a voip line to work, not even at 300bps.  
> If you were able to make VoIP work, I'd be very interested in how you 
> did it, if you're willing to share -- feel free to email me directly 
> if that's the case.  And of course, if anyone else on this list is a 
> VoIP wizard...
>
> Thanks,
> -RobertH
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> Bill <mailto:cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
> December 23, 2014 at 1:22 PM
> Since I have nothing to offer Cocoists anything other than a dozen or so
> other sites, and since my BBS activity is down to 6 callers this year, 
> it is
> with regret that I have decided to close *Square One Family BBS. The 
> expense
> to keep it running is actually nothing (only about $50 a year), but 
> keeping
> an OLD computer running 24/7 is somewhat of a chore.
>
> I will be keeping an eye on the mailing list and maybe asking a dumb
> question now and again, but I think BBSs are pretty much finished.
>
> Thanks
>
>

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