While you could just follow along and wait for my dialup experiences to come online, there's really no current way for someone to test their own projects without a second phone line, ATA and modem. So here we go. Look back at 0x01 and 0x02 for my recommendations
Now we can finally start coding! Sort of... Since the goal is to be able to compile on, or for, many generations and flavors of operating systems we're going to need a lot of tools for a lot of systems. While I've dabbled in "Edit&
Next on our adventure is the procurement and testing of an external modem. While internal modems as well as USB modems might do the job, compatibility across modern and vintage systems will vary at best. Conversely, serial port modems with the proper adapters work flawlessly even on the most modern
With everyone relying on mobile phones today it's becoming more and more rare that a modern home has a landline. It's doubtful I can assume someone owns a modem, let alone a phone line capable of supporting it. We start our journey together by establishing a
Traditional BBS (Bulletin board system) software is mostly unmaintained and now easily over thirty years old. While many great modern software packages do exist, support for vintage operating systems is dwindling. Additionally the POTS (Plain old telephone service) is being phased out by the FCC and little knowledge about analog