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Hello, Beehaw r0ckers - pAULIE42o introductionz... (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by paulie420@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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Hello people of the fediverse! Wanted to quickly introduce myself and mention why I'm here... I was a Reddit lurker, I enjoyed it - and then I starting learning about alternatives... federated self-hosted replacements... the Matrix, Mast, Lemmy things of the w0rld. So I searched for a Lemmy community that I wanted to rock with and found Beehaw. Once I saw that I didn't need to supply my home address, social security #, email, etc etc etc - I was in. I'm a retro computing lover - come by 2o fOr beeRS bbS @ 20ForBeers.com:1337; ANSI-TELNET/SSH[:1338] terminal needed. I'm a member of other federated Matrix and Mastodon communities; matrix.erb.pw mast.erb.pw

And h0pe to meet other like-minded folks around these parts. HELLO!

pAULIE42o . . . . . . . . . . . /s

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[–] leachim6@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Howdie paulie 🤠I'm a retro nerd too! Thanks for sharing your bbs. I'll check it out!

[–] paulie420@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right on!! I saw your new user email this morning; thanks for dialing in!! :P Nice to know theres some retro r0ckers on Beehaw - I'll have to post some of my collection at some point... I'm currently working on a 'portable luggable' Dolch PAC 60 486DX/66. It was originally a Sniffer Packet Inspection system, so I've been giving it a remodel w/ a SoundBlaster, amplifier and speakers to bring it up to MS-DOS speed...

Was nice to see you checkout the 2oFB community; thanks!

pAULIE42o
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[–] leachim6@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

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[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a list of registered BBS to visit or something like that? A BBS search engine? 😅

[–] paulie420@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep ; The Telnet BBS Guide was linked in the article, but there it is again for easy clicking! You'll find many stock, unmodified BBSes, in its listings - so I put a list of 'best BBSes' in my original article to get users going.

Cheers.

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That website background is extremely relevant. Look what I just got in the mail

[–] paulie420@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sweet!! Any plans for it, or is is literally gonna do m0re time as a USR modem??? I've seen a few neat RPi modem projects... one of my favorites is a RPi w/ a WiFi modem installed - all RX/TX/etc light still w0rking. :P While I hate hardware being killed, some projects are really rad. Hope to catch you around the boardz.

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My friend and I have built an http proxy for pi that proxies http requests to the Wayback machine set to 1999. I was going to tap into the modem boards through the gpio pins and enable fake dialup that serves us web pages from 1999

[–] paulie420@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Great idea; checkout The Old Net which also does what yer proxy does... maybe you'll get some neat ideas from them. Also, I'm sure you know, but;

FrogFind

68k.news

Are both great tools for retro-computing websites... Hope yer project comes together, w00t w00t!