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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ETalbot" data-source="post: 1345840" data-attributes="member: 229908">I am interested in setting up the old style bulletin board system (bbs) access on my computer through dial-up—i.e., so that I can access bbs sites on the phone lines should there be an Egypt-style Internet outage or shutdown.  I work from a 2009 MacBook Pro.What do I need?  I assume a modem.  Is there software that must (or should) be installed too, or do I use the Terminal utility that's already there?Terminal works for Telnet access on the Internet, but what I want is access via the phone lines if the Internet is down.If necessary I can use an older computer.  I have an old iMac from around 2001.Not sure which sub-forum this belongs on, but this seemed like a good place to start</blockquote>