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|  Message 1179  |
|  Alexander Grotewohl to Mike Powell  |
|  Re: recent projects  |
|  12 Aug 22 19:53:05  |
 TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47 MSGID: 1:120/616 92cba4b3 REPLY: 1200.clascomp@1:2320/105 275bf00b TZUTC: -0400 On 12 Aug 2022, Mike Powell said the following... MP> I occassionally will find a video where someone is using a GPU board to MP> "simulate" (is that the right word?) a DOS machine. They are usually MP> doing it for gaming. I sometimes wonder if there are any with an actual MP> RS232 serial port that could be used for some BBSing purpose. i was just yesterday looking at single-board-computers with authentic intel 386 cpus, dos in firmware, network interface and compact flash. it would be possible to go old school with a little novell network or something and not totally eat it in electric costs. there are even hardware serial to telnet devices that pretend to be a modem.. unfortunately they're around $300/ea and the novelty wears off pretty quick if you wanted more than maybe two nodes.. ... There is an exception to every rule, except this one. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32) * Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi (1:120/616) SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 616 123/10 SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/305 331 153/7715 154/10 50 218/700 220/90 226/18 SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/111 112 113 206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 664 SEEN-BY: 229/700 266/512 282/1038 292/854 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 SEEN-BY: 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 2320/105 3634/12 PATH: 120/616 154/10 229/426 |
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