Hello people of the fediverse! Wanted to quickly introduce myself and mention why I’m here… I was a Reddit lurker, I enjoyed it - and then I starting learning about alternatives… federated self-hosted replacements… the Matrix, Mast, Lemmy things of the w0rld. So I searched for a Lemmy community that I wanted to rock with and found Beehaw. Once I saw that I didn’t need to supply my home address, social security #, email, etc etc etc - I was in. I’m a retro computing lover - come by 2o fOr beeRS bbS @ 20ForBeers.com:1337; ANSI-TELNET/SSH[:1338] terminal needed. I’m a member of other federated Matrix and Mastodon communities; matrix.erb.pw mast.erb.pw

And h0pe to meet other like-minded folks around these parts. HELLO!

pAULIE42o . . . . . . . . . . . /s

    • pAULIE42o@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That one gets a BIG upvote!! :P Were you already a user, or did you just make a new account? I’ll have to give you the l33t access if I know yer username. [Email me on 2oFB is you wanna by anonymous. :P]

  • leachim6@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Howdie paulie 🤠I’m a retro nerd too! Thanks for sharing your bbs. I’ll check it out!

    • pAULIE42o@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Right on!! I saw your new user email this morning; thanks for dialing in!! :P Nice to know theres some retro r0ckers on Beehaw - I’ll have to post some of my collection at some point… I’m currently working on a ‘portable luggable’ Dolch PAC 60 486DX/66. It was originally a Sniffer Packet Inspection system, so I’ve been giving it a remodel w/ a SoundBlaster, amplifier and speakers to bring it up to MS-DOS speed…

      Was nice to see you checkout the 2oFB community; thanks!

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  • Hexorg@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Is there a list of registered BBS to visit or something like that? A BBS search engine? 😅

    • pAULIE42o@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yep ; The Telnet BBS Guide was linked in the article, but there it is again for easy clicking! You’ll find many stock, unmodified BBSes, in its listings - so I put a list of ‘best BBSes’ in my original article to get users going.

      Cheers.

      • Hexorg@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        That website background is extremely relevant. Look what I just got in the mail

        • pAULIE42o@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Sweet!! Any plans for it, or is is literally gonna do m0re time as a USR modem??? I’ve seen a few neat RPi modem projects… one of my favorites is a RPi w/ a WiFi modem installed - all RX/TX/etc light still w0rking. :P While I hate hardware being killed, some projects are really rad. Hope to catch you around the boardz.

          • Hexorg@beehaw.orgEnglish
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            2 years ago

            My friend and I have built an http proxy for pi that proxies http requests to the Wayback machine set to 1999. I was going to tap into the modem boards through the gpio pins and enable fake dialup that serves us web pages from 1999

            • pAULIE42o@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Great idea; checkout The Old Net which also does what yer proxy does… maybe you’ll get some neat ideas from them. Also, I’m sure you know, but;

              FrogFind

              68k.news

              Are both great tools for retro-computing websites… Hope yer project comes together, w00t w00t!