Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Wanted to talk about a little project I've been working on to get some pretty old hardware up as a old school packet radio BBS node. In the video, I have a Commodore SX-64, the first "portable" computer with a color monitor, as it was from 1983. Attached to it a a MFJ-1278 TNC2 working as an HF packet node connected to an FT-891. The TNC can also do RTTY as well as SSTV. In the video I connected to another users JNOS BBS node and left them a message.

00:00 Intro
01:45 Up close Look
03:15 Power On
03:30 Loading the Program
04:00 Starting the Program
04:50 Reading Mail
06:00 Connecting Out
07:30 Sending Mail
08:35 Outro

Let me know what packet was like for you before the internet. Did you Use a Commodore 64, or one of these old TNCs?

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