Toronto FreeNet

[Colin McGregor]

The Toronto Free-Net is still alive and well. The Toronto Free-Net is
looking for some additional volunteers, ideally with some ISP
experience. If you would like to volunteer touch base with Iain Calder
 - dn097-0l1pH2CMacvuFKmmi/icCA at public.gmane.org

Colin McGregor

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Alex Gabriel <alex-os5u1bLqfxy+Ff04BfjinA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> .I've not heard that name in a while.  Not since I worked at Interlog (circa
> 1999), to say the least.  Are they still operational or have they gone the
> way of the dodo bird? There's still a web site, but I've not gone through it
> extensively.
>
> Gabriel
> "Someone has to take a stand against evil, why should it not be me?"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Colin
> McGregor
> Sent: August-18-12 3:32 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: ZyXEL rack mount modems...
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:22 PM,  <jmiles242-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Kinda interesting stuff.
>> They are much like serial consoles - you still use them a lot in the
> datacenter world.
>> You know, I've often wondered whether a modem could be used to connect to
> a serial port.
>
> Yes modems could be used to connect to serial ports. The way the Toronto
> FreeNet set things up was to have racks of modems connected to terminal
> servers (when the Toronto Free-Net was supporting the modems I am looking to
> get rid of they had a Cisco terminal server and for a time they had 3
> Livingston/Lucent Portmaster terminal servers).
>
> Colin
>
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