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  • Adam MacLeodadam@adamm.cc
    Oct 27, 2026, 10:18 PM

    Wow! I am actually connected to the Internet via a dial-up connection, using a fully emulated modem running in a Linux VM to National Capital Freenet. Looks like we are having trouble reestablishing sync after a retrain, and V.44 compression drops just before five minutes of a call. So more work to do, but V.42bis and no compression have hit 15 minute call lengths. We are getting a 56000 bit digital sync on the download, and a 26400 bit analog sync up. Pings are between 300 and 400 MS, and data moves at around 2.3 kilobytes per second. LOL.

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  • Adam MacLeodadam@adamm.cc
    Oct 28, 2026, 7:55 AM

    I have a BBS on the PsTN. It actually answers and works. its Maximus. there was a lot of hate on for Max back in the day, but I like it because it has simple text mode, in addition to the eye candy pretty ansi graphics and ASCII art that are a screen reader nightmare. So its nice and blind friendly. As for everything else? I'm sure every other BBS software package did it better. But Max is a legitimate BBS, and I'm elated that it works and to be running The MacLeod Clan BBS again, just as I did when I was 12 years old or something, like back in fall of 1998 on my real 486 DX2/66 box. LOL. #Nostalgia #BBS #Maximus #Dial-UP #Modem

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  • Jayson Smithjaybird110127@dragonscave.space
    Oct 28, 2026, 7:59 AM

    @adam One thing I'm surprised no one seems to have done is to reimplement some of the major online information services like CompuServe as a server anyone can run. It seems it should be pretty easy to set up things like forums, teleconference/CB simulator/etc., etc, with a top main menu, the go <keyword> command, etc. Also just for old times' sake, add fake billing so you get pretend charged for the time you're on, etc.

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  • Adam MacLeodadam@adamm.cc
    Oct 28, 2026, 8:02 AM

    @jaybird110127 I'm sure the big AI models could do it. I never used those services, so I wouldn't be the one to do a re-design, but the working emulated modems are an obvious first step.

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