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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
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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.

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