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  • Re: Using retro hardware

    From Elf@21:1/194 to PHIGAN on Sun Sep 12 16:01:00 2021
    Quoting Phigan to Elf <=-

    You can download ProComm Plus 3.0 from my web site at:

    IMO, Telemate was the best because it let you have 80x26, which means
    full 80x25 PLUS a status bar.. Also it let you do things while downloading.

    Can you use that one today? I thought that was only for DOS? Back in the
    day I used Qmodem for DOS. :-) I think I used ProComm Plus when I
    started using Windows.



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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Avon on Thu Sep 16 01:48:00 2021
    Telix was my go to, and it had a BBS built into it with the SALT software language.

    ProTerm on the II lines has a similar feature. Prior to the 286 being
    acquired for the job, the first was a basic host script for these kinds of software.

    Spec


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  • From Elf@21:1/194 to DFLOREY on Thu Sep 9 19:52:00 2021
    Quoting Dflorey to Elf <=-

    Thanks for the Pro Tip on ProComm Plus - I had TOTALLY forgotten about that program. I will have to download it and give that a rip on the
    386..&

    So far I have installed ProComm Plus 3.0 on Windows 3.1, 98SE, ME, XP
    and Windows 10. Works fine on all of them (though on Windows 10 you
    have to install NTVDM when prompted). I also recently tried it on a
    preview release of Windows 11 and it fails to install there - not
    allowed by Windows 11 but I believe that is because they supposedly
    removed NTVDM from Windows 11.

    You can download ProComm Plus 3.0 from my web site at:

    http://lifeseven.com/1990s

    :-)

    ~Elf


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  • From phigan@21:1/101 to Elf on Sat Sep 11 15:48:02 2021
    You can download ProComm Plus 3.0 from my web site at:

    IMO, Telemate was the best because it let you have 80x26, which means full 80x25 PLUS a status bar.. Also it let you do things while downloading.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Elf@21:1/194 to PHIGAN on Sun Sep 12 17:01:00 2021
    Quoting Phigan to Elf <=-

    You can download ProComm Plus 3.0 from my web site at:

    IMO, Telemate was the best because it let you have 80x26, which means
    full 80x25 PLUS a status bar.. Also it let you do things while downloading.

    Can you use that one today? I thought that was only for DOS? Back in the
    day I used Qmodem for DOS. :-) I think I used ProComm Plus when I
    started using Windows.



    ... BBSing: More social. Less media.
    ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30
    --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32
    * Origin: Diamond Mine Online BBS 21:1/194 bbs.dmine.net:24 (21:1/194)
  • From phigan@21:1/101 to Elf on Tue Sep 14 08:45:22 2021
    Can you use that one today? I thought that was only for DOS? Back in the day I used Qmodem for DOS. :-) I think I used ProComm Plus when I
    started using Windows.

    There was Procomm Plus for DOS as well, so maybe I forgot about an actual GUI/Windows version. You could always run Telemate and other DOS terminal programs in command prompt, though, as long as you had a proper serial/COM port.

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  • From Elf@21:1/194 to phigan on Mon Sep 13 18:12:00 2021
    phigan wrote to Elf <=-

    There was Procomm Plus for DOS as well, so maybe I forgot about an
    actual GUI/Windows version. You could always run Telemate and other DOS terminal programs in command prompt, though, as long as you had a
    proper serial/COM port.

    I'll have to find a copy and see if I can get it running. Just for fun,
    of course.




    ~Elf

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to phigan on Mon Sep 13 20:34:34 2021
    On 14 Sep 2021, phigan said the following...

    Can you use that one today? I thought that was only for DOS? Back in day I used Qmodem for DOS. :-) I think I used ProComm Plus when I started using Windows.

    Qmodem Pro had a Windows Version also, there is a standalone version of it floating around you just stick it in a folder and click the .exe and it runs without having to install it. I own both but have not installed either in Windows since 98...

    Al

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Bucko on Tue Sep 14 21:00:00 2021
    Hmm I recall using Telix for a long time, followed by TeleMate.. and then
    onto telnet clients. As soon as we normalised an IP network, it was being routed via a linux box back then a slackware job if I recall right now..
    maybe a redhat...

    But prior to all that was ProTerm on a IIgs :)

    Spec


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to phigan on Tue Sep 14 07:11:00 2021
    phigan wrote to Elf <=-

    There was Procomm Plus for DOS as well, so maybe I forgot about an
    actual GUI/Windows version.

    I'm so old, I had a copy of Procomm. Not Procomm Plus. :)

    Procomm and Procomm Plus were the only terminal programs for DOS that did decent VT102/VT220 emulation, and I worked with phone systems that needed
    all of the Fkeys on a real terminal to work.


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  • From N1uro@21:4/107 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Sep 14 10:54:00 2021
    Hey poindexter;

    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to phigan <=-

    I'm so old, I had a copy of Procomm. Not Procomm Plus. :)

    I'm even older... I had the old green monster dumb terminals :\

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Spectre on Wed Sep 15 14:46:44 2021
    On 14 Sep 2021 at 09:00p, Spectre pondered and said...

    Hmm I recall using Telix for a long time, followed by TeleMate.. and then

    Telix was my go to, and it had a BBS built into it with the SALT software language.

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    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to N1uro on Wed Sep 15 07:20:00 2021
    N1uro wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I'm even older... I had the old green monster dumb terminals :\

    110 baud paper teletype, when I started out managing phone systems that's
    all we had. Who needs syslog when you can just look error messages on the scrolled paper?

    :)




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  • From N1uro@21:4/107 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Sep 15 11:58:00 2021
    Hello poindexter;

    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to N1uro <=-

    110 baud paper teletype, when I started out managing phone systems
    that's all we had. Who needs syslog when you can just look error
    messages on the scrolled paper?

    That's sometimes easier on the pupils than the old green monsters.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Avon on Thu Sep 16 02:48:00 2021
    Telix was my go to, and it had a BBS built into it with the SALT software language.

    ProTerm on the II lines has a similar feature. Prior to the 286 being
    acquired for the job, the first was a basic host script for these kinds of software.

    Spec


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: We know where you live, we're coming round to get you (21:3/101)