Re: voice validate
By: Poindexter Fortran to The Dark Rider on Sun Aug 19 2012 08:52:44
Well, with Google Voice, as long as they're in the US, they're a f anyway... so if you're also in the States, it won't cost you anyth them and voice-validate. If anything, it will add the extra human something that is usually lacking these days.
Good point. I've got a Comcast phone line that came along with my cable/internet bundle; only gets used for overseas inbound calls from It's got free nationwide calling in the US, and overseas prices are p cheap nowadays.
I've got a decently powered old desktop machine I had laying about, put
GB hard disk and 2 GB of RAM into it, and installed PBX in a Flash so I
get Asterisk with minimal headaches. I've got one of my GV accounts hook through that, and then I got a $25 VoIP ATA made by Grandstream so I cou
a real phone with it. It works with modems as well (up to about 9600 bau maybe 14.4k if I'm lucky that day, and of course it's got to be /ARQ or there's bad line noise).
I just wired up an old analog modem to my BBS; it's not supported und
7, but passes through to the VM running the BBS just fine. I crashmai yesterday with it, it was the first time I heard modem tones in YEARS
That's awesome! I do my BBSing using Telix for DOS in a DOSBox window, a works pretty well. For any earlier Windows games and whatnot that I want use/play, I have a Win2K VM on VirtualBox. For the modem stuff, I need t
my old laptop, and right now that's actually at work because it's more u
to me there (i.e. for managing an old school Merlin MAGIX piece of work,
Re: voice validate
By: The Dark Rider to Poindexter Fortran on Sun Aug 19 2012 08:39 pm
80 GB hard disk and 2 GB of RAM into it, and installed PBX in a Flash could get Asterisk with minimal headaches. I've got one of my GV acco hooked in through that, and then I got a $25 VoIP ATA made by Grandst
so I could use a real phone with it. It works with modems as well (up about 9600 baud, maybe 14.4k if I'm lucky that day, and of course it'
to be /ARQ or else there's bad line noise).
i have a dialup number. a guy forwards from the number to my telnet addy some day i will rig up something to call it via dialup. that's really on dreams is to call my own bbs with a real modem and phone line again.
i remember one time in the dialup days, i was talking to a female user onlin and she was helping me test something and it disconnected her. i called her voice and asked her to call back. it sort of freaked her out, maybe i broke through some sort of bbs > real life wall :D
Re: voice validate
By: Mro to The Dark Rider on Tue Aug 21 2012 01:40:55
i remember one time in the dialup days, i was talking to a female user on and she was helping me test something and it disconnected her. i called h voice and asked her to call back. it sort of freaked her out, maybe i br through some sort of bbs > real life wall :D
Yeah, I had that happen a couple of times to me. That said, I did actually make some friends from a simple voice validation call... I guess some people really did want someone to talk to on the phone, lol.
i have a dialup number. a guy forwards from the number to my telnet
addy. some day i will rig up something to call it via dialup. that's really one of dreams is to call my own bbs with a real modem and phone line again.
Yeah I would love to run a dialup bbs again myself one day again just for old times sake.
open up the ports
I have my ports open on Synchronet through the Windows Firewall. Only my
QWK comes in and that's it.
You can call your bbs via dialup right now. You have to hook your phone
line to a modem and have bbs software that listen for the incoming call. I use maximus bbs software that listens for a incoming call from the modem.
My line is magicjack line with filters. Works well. If you need help you
Yeah, I had that happen a couple of times to me. That said, I did actually make some friends from a simple voice validation call... I guess some
people really did want someone to talk to on the phone, lol.
--- MRO wrote --
I've made some lifelong friends through bbsing, and through bbsing on th internet. people i would trust everything with. it's too bad the rest of t people missed out on that type of community because it was a great way to good people in your area. now it's gone and never going to come back
--- STARBASE wrote --
You can still do the voice valdate and all.
That's not such a bad idea...
Re: voice validate
By: The Millionaire to the doctor on Sun Aug 19 2012 12:53 pm
But if you do not accept new users to your board would that defeat the purpose of the board?
But if you do not accept new users to your board would that defeat the purpo of the board?
Re: voice validate
By: The Millionaire to starbase on Sun Sep 02 2012 08:37 pm
I know. I guess we will still be a underground community. The bbs is always available to the public.
Just wish we could still attract big crowds like we did in the olden dayBrings back memmories. I used to have up to 500 users on my board in Austin Tx back in the 80's and the 90's. It was a kool place. But us sysops from the 80's can only dream
Re: voice validate
By: The Millionaire to Starbase on Mon Sep 03 2012 12:55 pm
Just wish we could still attract big crowds like we did in the olden dayBrings back memmories. I used to have up to 500 users on my board in Austin Tx back in the 80's and the 90's. It was a kool place. But us sysops from the 80's can only dream
By: Starbase to The Millionaire on Wed Sep 05 2012 12:47 amYes keep the dream alive. The bbs I run attaches me to the good old days.
it even now.
| Sysop: | Chris Crash |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huntington Beach, CA. |
| Users: | 611 |
| Nodes: | 8 (0 / 8) |
| Uptime: | 27:36:21 |
| Calls: | 10,849 |
| Files: | 5 |
| Messages: | 505,027 |