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Europa
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Reply #15 on: August 19, 2022, 22:23
I do need to do better for sure, I just need a weekend to get out my PowerBook 1400 and set up networking or dial-up for it and I should be good to go xD |
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #16 on: August 20, 2022, 08:10
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oh wow, do they even still offer dial-up in the U.S. today? I'm not even sure if you could do that here. But good idea.
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #17 on: August 20, 2022, 17:01
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When I checked, I found a good bunch of them, so yes!  There are two groups 1) old, standby, big players like NetZero, Juno, AOL and possibly Earthlink? Of these, AOL's dial-up plan's setup appears to be messy and I'm not sure if the AOL Software overhead's worth the trouble of getting online with them. The second group are privately-owned mom-and-pops geared toward people who live in rural areas, want to use a more private internet that doesn't snoop on their browsing history to make money, prefer 100% US-based support and service and may travel a lot. A possible standout from this group is ARCzip that appears to be highly rated, including a plan that claims to offer 6x faster than normal dial-up, free phone support and even 100mb web hosting space http://www.arczip.com/ The rest include TurboUSA, Mfire, Dialup4Less, BasicISP.net, DSLextreme, MyCopper.net and MyTurboUSA. Many of these have plans to help accelerate the old, plain-copper phone connections and of course and all of them also offer their users free email tied to their service.
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Europa
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64 MB Posts: 109 she/her
Reply #18 on: August 20, 2022, 18:54
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Oh, cool! I'll be honest, I was assuming they offered both access from TCP/IP and dial-in, as I hadn't gotten a chance to look at the site yet. It'd be super fun to do TCP/IP connection over dial-up for something like this though and it may be my best option, as I don't have a good way to get my PowerBook 1400 online using broadband at the moment.
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #19 on: August 22, 2022, 02:48
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So a couple of these (I want to say perhaps the big boys) offer some hours of free dial-up per month, but their paid services offer the accelerated plans (for dial-up, that is) I also dug up a neat page talking about accelerating your dial-up connection, too! http://www.linfo.org/faster_dial-up.html
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #20 on: August 22, 2022, 03:49
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I'll be joining the Captain's crew, soon.
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #21 on: August 23, 2022, 17:50
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Sorry folks, but that dark grey font is *impossible* to read in "Black Night" and I've tried for an hour to make my font color changes stick. But they won't. So I'm giving up for now until someone either banns dark grey as a font color for that BBS or shows me how to make *lasting* changes to the font color palette of BN.
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #22 on: August 24, 2022, 07:29
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Try another client maybe? MacSSH?
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #23 on: August 24, 2022, 21:23
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"Host not responding" 
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #24 on: October 16, 2022, 15:44
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So they've been adding old hacker groups newsletters and stuff. Looks like the CQII is going rogue  There's also stuff in there your local government certainly wouldn't like you to know, like building certain things ... Whenever I log into it from my IIci, it gives me this "anarchic 80's feeling". If you haven't tried it out, give it a try.
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Neal_SE30
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256 MB Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #25 on: October 23, 2022, 13:10
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I forgot my password. I tried to get in yesterday :/ damn by puny memory!!!
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Byte Knight
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16 MB Posts: 18 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #26 on: January 02, 2023, 17:00
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I stumbled upon this thread while searching for Mac BBS software. It's great to see someone talking about the BBS! BTW, it's the two year anniversary of CQ II BBS going live. 11,000 calls, 3400 message posts, and 550 downloads so far, so thanks for all your support!
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #27 on: January 02, 2023, 17:01
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Haha, look who is here! Welcome to our friendly little community, Mr. Captain! Yes, the CQII is amazing and thank you for keeping it going! I'm pushing it every time I get the chance to do so in a discussion. Love to log into it from my IIci ;-)
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #28 on: January 02, 2023, 19:46
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Welcome aboard our little Mac forum, Captain! We love sharing about all current Mac things, so we'd be remiss not to include your awesome BBS! Thank you for keeping this Mac-friendly service alive for all of us to have the chance to enjoy!
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Byte Knight
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16 MB Posts: 18 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #29 on: January 04, 2023, 05:42
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Quote from: Bolkonskij Haha, look who is here! Thanks - I've been on this site many times in the past but had no idea it had forums! And thanks for promoting the BBS!
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