[GreenKeys] Silent 700 (707) chance to buy...

[Ken Wiebe]

Hi Chuck,

I know there are a lot of vintage BBS's out there, but as far as I know they have all converted to telnet. Here is a good source:

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

So if your 707 has serial capability as well, you could get a device like this

https://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.php?prod=WiModem232

which is a "WiFi modem" and connect the 707 to the Internet, then telnet to a BBS.

I picked up the Panasonic version of the HP Silent a while back and it has a built-in modem plus a standard 9-pin serial port.

If I remember correctly, some of the Silents were the same way, but I think they had a proprietary serial port/cable.

Hope this helps!

-Ken
Tacoma, WA

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, at 03:29, charles.gage at usa.net wrote:
> Hi, all –

> 


> I have a chance to buy a TI Silent 707 with a built in modem. I’m an old guy who did a lot of COBOL programming back in the day using TTY including the Silent 700 at 300bps.
> 
> I was thinking about buying this and bringing it into the office to show the “kids” how we used to do things.

> 

> Couple of questions: Does anyone know if there are any dial-up BBS’s that might provide some boilerplate text like the weather report or news headlines and all that? I’m thinking I could set this up, give them the instructions of how to “dial in” and then print the current weather, or some other kind of general information that might be useful.

> 

> Thanks for help, folks!

> 

> Chuck

> 

> 

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