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

[Harold Hallikainen]

Some ISPs offer dial-up access. Perhaps yours does! I see that these still
offer dial-up: NetZero, AOL, EarthLink, People PC, Turbo USA, Juno. Also,
one of my hosting providers offers dial-up https://kcbx.net/packages/ .

Harold

> Hi, all -
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> 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.
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> I was thinking about buying this and bringing it into the office to show
> the
> "kids" how we used to do things.
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> 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.
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> Thanks for help, folks!
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> Chuck
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