FTP upload site (Was: Re: List behaviour)

[Eric J Korpela]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Alexandre Souza
<alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br> wrote:
>> it has a serial port on it.  Jim's tcpser program is the perfect thing for
>> stuff like this.  tcpser is available for both Win32 and Linux systems and
>> may work on others.
>
>   Hmmm...I just remembered a very ancient (and funny) fact.
>
>   Some decades ago, I had two 486' and a 386 networked with lantastic and
> personal netware (yes...I was something you can call "rich" as a 16-year-old
> boy working repairing computers) and had my own BBS. These were the times,
> where it was hard as hell to put more than two modems in the same computer

>   I had a msx with serial port...hmmm...
>
>   It was easy :) Opened a DOORWAY session inside deskview and connected the
> MSX to the serial port.

I've seen it work the other way around.  In the mid-to-late-80's back
in Madison, WI there was an 8 line chat system called "Warlord Chat".
Warlord had built it and written the software himself.  The central
system was an IBM PC (ISTR it was a 5150 rather than an XT).  It was
"networked" to four Atari 400s.  I assume there was a serial
connection from the PC to each Atari.  Each of the Ataris ran two
modems.

The competing system in town was called "the Bee Line" which had a
similar capacity, but I think it was built out of Apple II systems.
Of course all the cool people used Warlord Chat.