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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 30/0 30 80/1 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 154/10       SEEN-BY: 218/700 221/6 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 452 550       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 981 1016 1017 240/1120 5832 249/206 307 317 400       SEEN-BY: 280/464 282/1038 292/854 301/0 1 101 113 317/3 322/757 341/66       SEEN-BY: 341/200 203 342/200 633/280 712/848 5020/1042       PATH: 120/616 154/10 3634/12 261/38 341/66 301/1 229/426           |
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