Name: WiFi232無線調制解調器。復古電腦上的BBS樂趣! (WiFi232 Wireless Modem: BBS Fun on Retro PCs!)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T09:43:01.000Z
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a wireless internet modem allowing dozens of classic computers

In effect, it's a peripheral that plugs into a serial port on an old computer

and that computer will see it as a serial dial-up modem.

allowing you to connect to different networks online

I've been messing around with this thing for days now,

Because, man, as fun as old computers are to use offline,

And for a long time, that did not involve the web or ISPs.

It was all about bulletin board systems, or BBSes.

sitting in awe at all the games you could download

and the colorful, blocky artwork that streamed in line-by-line.

will have its own dedicated LGR episode in the future,

for the websites and online services we know today.

And using them on a machine from the time period

Of course, in their prime, you dialed into them

similar to how you'd connect to the Internet using dial-up.

but is still easily connected to through the modern Internet.

null modem and even Raspberry Pi solutions.

A handy little device that plugs into an RS-232 serial port

and acts as a Hayes- compatible modem wirelessly.

This was put together by Mr. Paul Rickards,

if his punchcard business card is anything to go by.

but it soon turned into a more broad wifi serial solution.

While I don't have a serial printer to test out,

I do have plenty of computers with RS-232 ports

the WiFi232 isn't exactly dialing any phone numbers

and simply uses Hayes-compatible AT commands to communicate.

The Hayes command set was the de facto standard

as a result, it's supported by an absolute crap ton of vintage computers.

Which means this works with IBM PC compatibles,

Pretty much, if it has an RS-232 serial port,

It does this by using the ESP8266 microcontroller.

to hop onto wifi networks and send out Hayes commands.

And combined with the other features Paul added,

it becomes one of the easiest and most compact

with the steps being laid out quite nicely

in this 13-page PDF manual you can print out.

Just plug the board into a free serial port

and then power it on with a mini-USB cable and charger.

Once it glows blue, you can then turn on your computer,

then start up your terminal emulator of choice.

in this selection of footage captured from the LGR Woodgrain 486.

Although, I'm also fond of BananaCom and others.

you first select the COM port it's plugged into

After this, you'll open the terminal itself

and do the rest using the AT commands from the manual.

And what's great is the process is the same

since you configure it using the WiFi232's

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