Actually I think what I am looking for is more of a terminal accessible BBS from the internet, not of the dial in type

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See sig ;-)

No games, no files... mostly inane chatter, but we likes it.

There's also Age of Reason at telnet://aor.retroarchive.org running on an Apple IIe; the RetroBBS (home of RetroChallenge) at telnet://lorance.no-ip.org and (for now at least) RetroBaud at telnet://retrobaud.dyndns.org

BTW, the IIgs keyboard is really nice IMHO, but there are many who disagree.