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|    Alexander Grotewohl to IB Joe    |
|    Re: Sound    |
|    30 Apr 21 17:00:58    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47       MSGID: 1:120/616 858e5dbc       REPLY: 1:342/201 719a07e5       TZUTC: -0400       On 30 Apr 2021, IB Joe said the following...                IJ> response ... I did not want to hear the sound myself but rather have the        IJ> user hear it. I have a wav file of a 56K modem... I just thought it        IJ> would be cool for that to play during a terminal connect.              BBSes don't usually stream audio :)              there was one term someone was working on with an out-of-band data channel       that did some extra stuff like that, but it's extremely non-standard              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/20 (Windows/32)        * Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi (1:120/616)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 457 616 123/10 131 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/215 305 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0 220/80 90 221/0 6 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 201 702 229/101 310 424 426 452 550 664 700 981 1016       SEEN-BY: 229/1017 240/1120 5411 5824 5832 5853 6309 249/206 307 317       SEEN-BY: 249/400 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854 8125 301/1 317/3 320/219       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/200 396/45 633/280 770/1 2452/250 2454/119 3634/12       PATH: 120/616 154/10 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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