Visicom Textphone Reverse-engineering

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron November 25, 2014, 07:53:17 PM

Sadfully I don't have a lot of dexterity and electricity is kind of magic for me : I know the circuit basis but not so much when plugging things into said circuit.

u/Keoni29 November 26, 2014, 10:28:09 AM

There is this awesome thing called VHDL. It's hardware descriptive language. It allows you to create digital systems by typing in words on a keyboard. You can synthesize your designs and upload them to a configurable chip. The endresult is a chip that does exactly what you want. It's not software that's generated from your code, but hardware!
You could try that

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron November 26, 2014, 10:57:20 AM

I know chip like PIC are programmable. That's not a problem. I meant plugging chips, lamps or any thing that needs current without setting the house on fire or destroying the circuit with an error.

u/Keoni29 November 26, 2014, 11:05:10 AM

That's a different kind of programmable chip. Those chips have a cpu in them that runs software. You don't design the inner circuitry in order to make it do things.

u/novenary November 26, 2014, 01:55:07 PM

Wow if you manage to run an IP stack on this thing it would be awesome. Telnet anyone ?

u/Keoni29 November 26, 2014, 03:06:21 PM

I believe it already has telnet in the firmware

I just need to somehow hook it up to the phone line.

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron November 26, 2014, 03:36:35 PM

'Should bring a BBS back here. Telnet codewalr.us ! :3

u/Keoni29 November 28, 2014, 11:12:11 PM

I believe Juju was working on something like that for Omnimaga.

u/novenary November 28, 2014, 11:33:48 PM

Yeah, it should work with CodeWalrus too since we use the same forum software.

u/Dream of Omnimaga November 28, 2014, 11:38:13 PM

Is the Omni one still up?

u/Keoni29 November 28, 2014, 11:38:38 PM

No it is not. Juju shut it down for unknown reasons.

u/Dream of Omnimaga November 29, 2014, 03:23:20 AM

Ah ok, I wasn't sure who hosted it, but since it's him then I'm not surprised, considering he can't even afford internet at home althogether. >.<

u/novenary November 30, 2014, 08:33:50 AM

Yeah that, plus I don't think it was fully functional anyway.

u/Dream of Omnimaga November 30, 2014, 05:03:06 PM

Yeah IIRC we could just login or something. Then I never heard about progress again.

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron November 30, 2014, 07:10:13 PM

Yeah, that's sad that project died before a full featured version. :/ This could have been a fun way to acces Omni whil still under low speed Internet access...