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    From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to All on Tue Oct 8 10:51:00 2024
    I was thinking about Dial Up BBS's.
    I know THE BBS I am using still has a phone connection even though I access it online .

    What I was thinking about was some of them had a time Limit of say 30 Minutes max.
    Lots of times I couldn't read all of the new posts and would have to call back later that day to read them all. Note: I was using a C=64 at that time.

    One BBS wouldn't allow a user to log on after they was the last one that signed in and I might have to wait several hours to log on it again if nobody had called it that day.

    It was GREAT later when I got a DOS 5 computer and could use QWK to grab new posts and get off in a flash so others could use the BBS too.
    I could take all the time I wanted reading messages so others could call the Board while I was indulging myself reading new stuff.

    Just dreaming, since I don't know if a Android phone could do QWK like the home PC did.
    Ed
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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Ed Vance on Tue Oct 8 11:22:33 2024
    On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 10:51:00 -0500
    "Ed Vance" (21:1/175) <Ed.Vance@f175.n1.z21.fidonet> wrote:


    Just dreaming, since I don't know if a Android phone could do QWK
    like the home PC did.
    Ed
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    Of course Android can do QWK, it's just a matter of whether anyone has
    been bothered to write an app to do so.
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    End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Nigel Reed on Tue Oct 8 09:53:33 2024
    Re: Re: Old Days
    By: Nigel Reed to Ed Vance on Tue Oct 08 2024 11:22 am

    Just dreaming, since I don't know if a Android phone could do QWK like the
    home PC did.

    Of course Android can do QWK, it's just a matter of whether anyone has been bothered to write an app to do so.

    I think that's what he meant..

    Nightfox
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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Nightfox on Tue Oct 8 16:40:54 2024
    Re: Re: Old Days
    By: Nightfox to Nigel Reed on Tue Oct 08 2024 09:53:33

    Just dreaming, since I don't know if a Android phone could do QWK like the
    home PC did.

    Of course Android can do QWK, it's just a matter of whether anyone has been bothered to write an app to do so.

    I think that's what he meant..

    He should say what he means. :)
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Nigel Reed on Wed Oct 9 22:22:03 2024

    Re: Re: Old Days
    By: Nightfox to Nigel Reed on Tue Oct 08 2024 09:53:33

    He should say what he means. :)
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    Slowly I have planned to use my home computer(s) to use data through this phone.

    Want to connect a Bluetooth device to WAN output of wired router to send data through BT on cellphone.

    Been .mentioning it since January 2024 , one of these days I will find my ROUNDTUIT.
    Ed
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