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|    Alexander Grotewohl to Mike Powell    |
|    Re: recent projects    |
|    12 Aug 22 19:53:05    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47       MSGID: 1:120/616 92cba4b3       REPLY: 1200.clascomp@1:2320/105 275bf00b       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.              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)        * Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi (1:120/616)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 616 123/10       SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/305 331 153/7715 154/10 50 218/700 220/90 226/18       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/111 112 113 206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 664       SEEN-BY: 229/700 266/512 282/1038 292/854 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 2320/105 3634/12       PATH: 120/616 154/10 229/426           |
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