BBS Week 2023 Entry

It's BBS Week 2o23, so its time to login to Level 29 BBS, make a post on /r/retrobattlestations and get our old hardware connecting like they never did in the past!!

Using a 1946 Philco Predicta Holiday that normally serves up random videos for your viewing pleasure - but it can pull some double duty and get online with a little bit of help from a slice of Raspberry Pi...

Come along for the ride, and vote for us on /r/retrobattlestations! If you have a retro machine, checkout https://old.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/10zpyj3/contest_bbs_week_viii_through_feb_19/ and get your entry in!!

Contest info:
February 16th is the anniversary of the very first Electronic Bulletin Board System created by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess way back in 1978, which means it's time for the annual BBS Week contest!
Level 29, the RetroBattlestations BBS, is compatible with pretty much any kind of terminal device you can throw at it, from hard copy terminals and teleprinters such as teletypes, tiny computers like the TRS-80 MC-10, small 16 column by 4 row screens, game consoles with keyboards, all the way up to modern machines with Internet access.
Your challenge is to connect to RetroBattlestations' official BBS and post a message to join a discussion or start your own. Don't know what to say? Tell us the story of why you chose the battlestation you're using to post your message on the BBS! The BBS supports dialup, telnet, and even web access. If you need to use another computer to act as a modem, I recommend using my patched copy of tcpser which supports telnet and parity.
At the end of the week one winner will be selected from each of the following categories:
Most non-computery
Least real-estate (rows x cols)
Most artsy fartsy message