Re: Put your BBS back online with MagicJack? [message #373456] |
Mon, 10 September 2018 18:48 |
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Originally posted by: briangjester
On Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 6:33:23 PM UTC-4, Terry Olsen wrote:
> Has anyone ever thought of running their old BBS just like they did in the
> heyday??? With actual Apple hardware, an analog modem, and a phone line?
> Now that MagicJack has come into existence, $40 to purchase, and $20 per
> year of service with free long distance, seems to me it would be entirely
> possible to have a bunch of Apple II bbs's to call once again.
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> Sysops would not have to shell out a monthly payment for a 2nd phone line
> and users wouldn't have to worry about long distance phone charges to call.
> No-brainer, eh?
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> So would there be any interest? Are there any sysops who would consider
> running a BBS like this? In the next month or so, I'll probably go buy a
> MagicJack, put mine online, and see what happens. Anyone else?
If the bbs won't work using magicjack, I will have to say, bye bye to the magicjack and switch back to my old service.
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Re: Put your BBS back online with MagicJack? [message #373502 is a reply to message #373456] |
Wed, 12 September 2018 03:00 |
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Originally posted by: Brian Patrie
On 2018-09-10 17:48, briangjester@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 6:33:23 PM UTC-4, Terry Olsen wrote:
>> Has anyone ever thought of running their old BBS just like they did in the
>> heyday??? With actual Apple hardware, an analog modem, and a phone line?
>> Now that MagicJack has come into existence, $40 to purchase, and $20 per
>> year of service with free long distance, seems to me it would be entirely
>> possible to have a bunch of Apple II bbs's to call once again.
>>
>> Sysops would not have to shell out a monthly payment for a 2nd phone line
>> and users wouldn't have to worry about long distance phone charges to call.
>> No-brainer, eh?
>>
>> So would there be any interest? Are there any sysops who would consider
>> running a BBS like this? In the next month or so, I'll probably go buy a
>> MagicJack, put mine online, and see what happens. Anyone else?
>
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> If the bbs won't work using magicjack, I will have to say, bye bye to the magicjack and switch back to my old service.
VoIP (voice over internet protocol) is notorious for this;
the encoding mangles modem signals.
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