Commodore.ca: The PET, VIC, 128, 64 & More Forum

Hi Group,

I am new to this group so I thought I'd introduce myself. My name is Rob and I live in Grants Pass which is in Southern Oregon near Medford. I collect Commodore Computers and actually I've acquired quite a bit of neat stuff in the last four years. That is how long I've been a collector. I started out my computing experience with a borrowed C-64 and I bought the Commodore 128 as my first computer. I later switched to DOS based machines as everything drafting related went that way. Since I retired I've gotten back into Commodore machines. I love my Amiga 500 and my Commodore 128D.

I see that BBS's are still around and I will some day get a proper modem and try and connect. Like the 'ol days!

Regards,

Rob

Welcome to the forum. I hope you enjoy the information and friends.

I am about to publish a Commodore Clubs list and am 90% sure there is an Oregon group you might be interested in too.

Thanks and have a great weekend.

Welcome! I have friends that live up near Medford. Also in Gold Beach.

For BBSs most of them these days use telnet. There was one that still had honest to goodness phone line support but your best bet is the WiModem. It plugs into the user port and lets you connect to BBS via your Wifi router. It emulates a hayes modem and works with most any terminal. I use it and it works great.

You can get it here: http://www.cbmstuff.com

This is a good forum, so enjoy!

GPguy wrote:...I live in Grants Pass which is in Southern Oregon near Medford.

I pass by Grants Pass all the time when I visit the Pacific NW two or three times a year.

Still in Las Vegas,

Thanks for replying everyone! I'll check out the WiModem. One thing though. Is there software that will allow me to enter my WiFi password? I think I have a few copies of Novaterm, will that do?

Anyone driving through the area is more than welcome to stop on by. Spend the night, have dinner, let me show off my cool Commodore stuff

Regards,

Rob

Yeah Novaterm should be fine. Most any terminal will work. I use CCGMS 7.0 as my BBS browsing terminal. I always used it back in the day with my 1670 modem.

GPguy wrote:Anyone driving through the area is more than welcome to stop on by. Spend the night, have dinner, let me show off my cool Commodore stuff

Oh, thanks for the invitation. I just got back from Las Vegas, and I was seriously considering in attending the Quarterflash concert in Wilsonville this Thursday. However, common sense kicked in, and I would be pushing myself too hard to get to that event in time. My next planned visit to the Pacific NW will be in November when I go up to drop off and pick up C= equipment from repair technician Ray Carlsen.

Back in California,

Hi Robert,

Stop on by in November! I just got back an SX-64 motherboard from Ray. He's pretty sharp. My next fix'it is one of my 1571 floppy drives has a problem with the upper read/write head. The unit will play C64 games, but won't read a CPM disk, as an example. Neither will it load any of my other C128 programs. So, I need Ray to work on it.

Regards,

Rob

Hello, Rob. Welcome you to the forum