Telnet access to moderately old UNIX boxes

[Zane H. Healy]

At 9:56 AM +0200 7/1/09, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:02:15 -0400
>Tom Manos <tmanos at concursive.com> wrote:
>
>>  I was thinking of buying one of those 
>>  MagicJack thingies that give you a local number and unlimited voip 
>>  calling for $20 a year and setting up a modem on it.
>VoIP uses (more or less) advanced codecs to encode and compress voice
>audio. A modem, that expects a 1:1 "wire", will not work well on this.

I'm totally out of the modem world as well, since I'm *forced* to use FIOS.

In the C-64 world at least one comm program will "dial" BBS's over 
ethernet.  This of course assumes you have ethernet on your C-64, 
which I do.

Zane


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