31 Aug
2018
31 Aug
'18
10:17 a.m.
On 08/30/2018 07:09 PM, Cornelius Keck wrote:
I'm playing with the idea of hooking up a modem
to my wireline phone.
I'd like to keep an eye on my late mother-in-law's place remotely. Best
I can get out there is DSL, and it ain't snappy, so one idea is to get
two Telebit Trailblazer modems, one here, one out there, dial into the
place, pull imagery via UUCP. Trailies spoof UUCP natively, and they
deal nicely with bad connectivity. One could take that one step further
and bring back a bit of Usenet.
That sounds like an interesting project. I'd personally like to
shoulder surf or read periodic updates, possibly a blog or twitter? ;-)
I don't see how RetroNet can help with that connection. It sounds like
you've already got a good plan in place.
That being said, I do think that you could have a RetroNet … node
(?term?) … at your house and then pass news feeds / email / etc over
your Telebit UUCP extension. — I see no reason why that wouldn't work.
If you want to do such, cool. How can I / we help?
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Grant. . . .
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