Hey dave! bbs.eevblog.com - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: FennecTECH
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 12:40:33 am
content: do you think you could make a bbs.eevblog.com forum link? the ol BBS days?

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 12:51:30 am
content: Alternative: browse the forums with a modern text-only browser likeelinksBonus: one of the fastest web-browsers in the world. Sometimes you don't care for the latest effects and just want to read to text portion of the web.

author: jancumps
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 12:58:16 am
content: This is how it would have materialized on my amber monitor in those days:

author: FennecTECH
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 01:03:54 am
content: i love the elinks browser but what im talkiong about is anstiad of going towww.eevblog.com/forumsi want to use bbs.eevblog.com!

author: David_AVD
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 02:49:14 am
content: You have to ask yourself how many people would want or use something like that?

author: steve30
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 03:12:21 am
content: Quote from: David_AVD on November 16, 2014, 02:49:14 amI would

author: FennecTECH
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 04:24:52 am
content: if i want it then everyone must want it! #foxlogic

author: Rory
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 04:39:05 am
content: Now, if it could run independent of the internet, without long distance charges, it would something to think about!

author: FennecTECH
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 06:00:05 am
content: well first you would have to take your tinfoil hat off

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 07:19:41 am
content: Quote from: steve30 on November 16, 2014, 03:12:21 amMe too! Either using my Commodore 64 or my IBM PS/2. Nothing more than 9600 baud please ;-)

author: Rory
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 07:21:07 am
content: Quote from: FennecTECH on November 16, 2014, 06:00:05 amNo need to be rude.I wasn't talking about privacy issues.

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 07:28:43 am
content: Quote from: Rory on November 16, 2014, 04:39:05 amPacket radio perhaps?

author: David_AVD
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 07:37:06 am
content: Carrier pigeons with floppy disks I say!

author: FennecTECH
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 08:15:10 am
content: what are floppy disks some new kind of ferite core memory?

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 08:17:46 am
content: My grandma wants her needle point back FennecTECH.Edit: come to think of it, might be cool to actually have a core memory needle point sweaterNext big geek thing for awful winter sweaters!Extra bonus points if the sweater actually works as core memory!

author: FennecTECH
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 08:45:24 am
content: that actually might be neat!i want one but first i would have to figure out exactly how core ememory works and it might be chilly since the whole thing will be rather breezy and its made from metal and ferrite

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 08:50:35 am
content: The ferrites go on the outside of the sweater not in the inside, they just hold a magnetic charge and when you read them they are erased so you have to rewrite them again.

author: FennecTECH
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 09:19:45 am
content: sounds rather ineficent im only 20 so its probally WAY before my time but it sure looks sexy! flash aint beautiful like that

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 05:30:43 pm
content: Quote from: steve30 on November 16, 2014, 03:12:21 amYou are true to your name, sir!

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 05:31:53 pm
content: How about an 80s style BBS written to run on an AVR or PIC? You'd just have to put most of the code in external flash, but it could be done.

author: FennecTECH
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2014, 09:19:42 pm
content: just put it on a PI

author: SirNick
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2014, 07:31:04 pm
content: Does this forum have a files section? How about door games? Gotta have my LORD. ^_^

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2014, 07:48:03 pm
content: Quote from: Halon on November 16, 2014, 07:19:41 amStill got it wrongIt's 9600 bps and the corresponding de/encoding runs at 2400 baud. Just nitpicking

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 18, 2014, 12:16:55 am
content: Quote from: madires on November 17, 2014, 07:48:03 pmI stand corrected :-)

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2014, 12:36:24 am
content: In the mid-late 90s with a 28.8Kbps modem you could do quite a bit even with 3 second lag including voice.People now are spoiled and it's just too easy now, and they still don't get it right

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 18, 2014, 12:40:38 am
content: Quote from: miguelvp on November 18, 2014, 12:36:24 amAbsolutely! Remember CuSeeMe?

author: TheBay
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 18, 2014, 12:33:51 pm
content: Quote from: FennecTECH on November 16, 2014, 08:15:10 amHere you go, make a new USB stick out of thishttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USSR-Soviet-Russian-Military-Ferrite-Core-Memory-Stack-Cube-MANUAL-QUITE-RARE-/381002724362?_trksid=p2054897.l4275

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 25, 2014, 08:06:22 am
content: Quote from: TheBay on November 18, 2014, 12:33:51 pmI misread the eBay item title as "Core Memory Stick" and spent ten minutes looking for the USB port in the photos,veryexcited.