Computer Science professor Bob Fulkerson joins the show to discuss his BBS days including his stewardship of the Endless Forest BBS in Omaha. Bob also discusses facets of teaching Computer Science and his love for the Perl programming language. #bbsing#perl#python
I know there are a bunch of #retro computer Mastodon apps, but one I've not yet seen is a #BBS door interface.
I figure you could go two ways, have a local mastodon instance and it sort of works like the mail systems (though I doubt they'd scale well). Or alternatively, you get a token to login to an external instance (similar to elk.zone) and it's just a text-based front end (like wrapping https://github.com/ihabunek/toot). Perhaps one already exists?
Is it possible to connect to a analog or ISDN BBS through a VoIP telephone system (using a traditional RS232 connected modem)?
Are there any “modems” that speak SIP (VoIP - Modem over VoIP - G.711 passthrough or V.150.1) and can be connected to Ethernet?
I’m not asking about WIFI-Modems that connect from RS232 to Telnet. The target BBS does not have Telnet, it still has traditional analog phone line and ISDN (e.g. the BLUP BBS https://www.blup-bbs.de/)
When the histories of journalism and BBSing collide. 📰 🖥️
This screenshot shows the top of an essay titled "FIDO Net Made Me Do It" by Randy Reddick, where he recalls using ProComm to connect to a BBS for the first time in 1984.
It's from the book "When nerds and words collide," published in 1999 to reflect on "computer-assisted reporting" or CAR. You can download it here: https://www.ire.org/when-nerds-and-words-collide/
🔎💿 Restoring ABM BBS: We've thoroughly studied everything we could find. With the recovered data, we've filled replacement disks of the same model (it won't accept any other), and the array is now "happy." Unfortunately, the data seems fragmented, with just bits of BBS conversations. We're still on the hunt for a valid file system.
Let's revisit Jason Scott's (@internetarchive) visit to our museum, a delightful throwback indeed! Scott (@textfiles) known for textfiles.com, a web archive preserving historical #BBS files, and for his documentary films "BBS: The Documentary" (2005) & "GET LAMP" (2010) about BBS culture and interactive fiction, is a prominent figure in digital archiving. The fireside chat, organized by our museum and moderated by Domen Savič, can be watched here: https://vimeo.com/783949972
Such a busy summer, I had forgotten all about it, including the months I spent making a simple web-based IGS art editor (which you can try here: https://breakintochat.com/atari/igs.js)