[Coco] Lets bring back the Rs232 pack alive

[phil pt]

The commodore 64/128 being a much slower computer have some of the orginal
bbs systems running back from 90's that be access using telnet. The coco is
faster so it seems logical that it can be done.

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:22 PM, phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using the Rs232 pack and the T2 port would be easer because you do not
> have to make a large amount of modifications to over hundred lines of code
> to make it work with the orginal Rs232 pack address to receive/send and
> check for the carrier status.  The timer event can be used to control the
> incoming flow of data being send to the Rs232 pack and to the /t2 since
> timer events run in the background when data is received check to see if
> the buffer is full, if not then send some information to the Rs232 pack
> then check if any data needs to be sent out and if carrier is true or
> false.
>
> Back in the 90's it would be a little bit harder but since the programming
> lanuages more advanced it makes it more possible that this can be done.  I
> have been programming since 1985.
>
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> > On Feb 5, 2018, at 5:59 PM, phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Lets bring back the Rs232 pack and the t2 port alive using Vcc and
>> > Drivewire.  This can be used more then just running a bbs system and a
>> lot
>> > more older orginal coco programs that support it like Ribbs.  A coco
>> bbs is
>> > not a Coco bbs system unless its running under Os9.
>>
>> I *loved* StG Net for OS-9 — far, far more advanced than FidoNet. It was
>> basically USENET newsgroups, e-mail (user at system), file transfers (like
>> binaries news groups), etc. But, it only spoke CoCo to CoCo.
>>
>> FidoNet had that big network of all kinds of systems, and cool offline
>> readers - even for the CoCo.
>>
>> However, these days I’m having fun in the CoCo 1/2 days, and expect to
>> put some microBBS online on a 64K machine.
>>
>> We’ll have to start a new BBS LIST with our systems once we get them
>> rolling, and if we get RiBBS working via these WiFi parts, I’ll certainly
>> run that and join the network too!
>>
>>                 — A
>>
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