A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator
A developer fell in love with Casio pocket computers after discovering their BASIC and RS232 capabilities. He built a fully functional telnet BBS hosted entirely on a Casio VX-4 with just 8KB of RAM, using a Raspberry Pi Zero W only as a network bridge and message archive. The BBS, written in BASIC, accepts calls via telnet and prompts for a callsign. The project is still in development, with plans to publish the code on GitHub.
How about a Bulletin Board Service? How original you might say. Yes, but how about a BBS hosted entirely on a calculator with 8kb of RAM?
- rglover
Just reminded me of my favorite toy as a kid, the IR-7000 [1]. I convinced myself I was Ethan Hunt riding around on my bike with it in my pocket.
Cool to see this working.
- nizmow
I love this, but feedback to the author: the combination of a quirky font and quirky colours make this incredibly hard to read.
- codazoda
I really enjoy this format. Like reading a story from the authors life. Like you might read in an autobiography.
I don’t think I write this way very often, but I enjoyed reading it.
My takeaway is to write a bit like a journal more often.