On 08/30/2018 07:20 PM, Cornelius Keck wrote:
> If one wanted to do this old-school, like with modems ... just 
> wondering, who still has
> 
> - a wire-line phone,
> 
> - a modem,
> 
> - and hails from where?
> 
> Flat rate local toll and long distance is fairly prevalent in the US. 
> International long distance is a different story. How does that look 
> like elsewhere, who has a metered land-line?

I could see RetroNet pondering an additional service in the future that 
is effectively a virtual serial port (more below) that connects to a 
virtual modem that can interconnect with other virtual modems as if they 
called each other.  I think something like this could be made to work 
across IP interconnections provided by RetroNet.

This is obviously beyond the original ideas of RetroNet, which we want 
to get working first.  But if there's sufficient interest in people 
being able to ""call each other over a (virtual) modem, then I think we 
should put it on the desired features list.

There are a number of options that can create a virtual serial port that 
connects across networks.  I think we can even connect a physical serial 
port (possibly even via RS-232 serial to USB adapters that can be 
connected to physical machines).

So if this is something that you're interested in, please let us know.

This might be a good place to ""forward the virtual modem discussion to 
the RetroNet mailing list.

TUHS has been very gracious and a lot of people have shown interest. 
But we don't want to wear out our welcome.  ():-)

To that end, please subscribe to the RetroNet mailing list to continue 
discussing details about the virtual modems.

Link - RetroNet mailing list
  - http://mailman.chivanet.org/listinfo/retronet



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