This is floppy.museum:

Hi, World!

This is my second^Wthird attempt at bringing a message board to the Floppy
Museum. This time contributed by Fusion, who wrote this little BBS-like
program for me. The whole thing, bells and whistles included, fits in a
ZIP file just short of 40KB, which is pretty impressive - especially
since that even includes the RLFOSSIL telnet-to-fossil driver which allows
this to even work in the first place.

Assuming this works, expect more to follow. And at some point I might even
automate conversion of this message base into HTML - watch this space!

- your sysop

Meep!

So .. a couple of more details about how all this works, for the overly
curious ones out there. You should look at http://floppy.museum/thispc.htm
for general info about the hardware and all the other software running
here, but this message board deserves its own mention.

As I said in the first message, I'm using RLFOSSIL to make this available
on the Internet. It uses WATTCP (an IP stack for DOS that pre-dates mTCP by
about 100 years (well, at least 15)), and is basically a TELNET (and rlogin
and raw TCP socket) server on one end, and a virtual Hayes-compatible modem
on the other. It provides a FOSSIL-type virtual COM port to software - like
a BBS - that only "understands" serial ports and modems, and passes inbound
TELNET connections to the BBS software as a modem RING and CONNECT.

Pretty nifty, eh?

Oh and since it requires some 386 instructions, I'm using EMU386 to catch
all those pesky 386 opcodes (instructions) and dumb them down to the 286
instruction set. So that's another piece of very old and very obscure
software that helps make this possible.
Take care!

Hi again!

After the somewhat abrupt end of the previous message (I have a max message
length to worry about), I finally got the configuration synced to both of
the floppy.museum nodes and spun up a load balancer config in front of
them.

So while this is still somewhat flakey, and I'm still working on getting it
stable, this should help it last a bit longer between manual interventions.

Would be nice if someone left a message. Just sayin'...

buh-bye!
- your sysop

Hi,

it's been a busy weekend. Been making updates to the website, specifically
updated the main page with info about this message board, and moved the
change log to its own page (it was becoming a bit too long.)

Also created a separate "external links" page. Let me know if you know of
anything that belongs there!

- me

If this goes well, the messages should now be listed in the correct order.

- ltning