From someone who set out with his 40-year-old SX-64 to visit an equally ancient Commodore 64 BBS - not old-school with a modem, but through a DIY null-modem cable hooked up over the internet.

It turned out to be much more difficult than expected, with all sorts of cable shenanigans that of course refused to work - and ultimately even resulted in the SX-64 needing repairs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3csC9z7oPSY

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Re: Houston, We Have Connect
By: Snobsoft to All on Fri Jul 03 2026 01:43 pm

It turned out to be much more difficult than expected, with all sorts of cab shenanigans that of course refused to work - and ultimately even resulted in

Hm, I have an SX-64, and I use a home-made ESP8266-based userport modem.. and also a pi1541-zero. Sure, it takes some doing, but it's not OMG such a big deal. Not sure why you need a 30 minute video for this.

Fun stuff, though!

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