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Subject: PC-Pursuit Port Statistic's
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Date: 06/29/89
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Written by: PC-Pursuit Users
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Introduction:
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The last 30 days of PC-Pursuit have been extremely
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controversial. Users and ex-users have demanded accurate
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statistics, and Telenet has provided us with very little.
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And the data that was provided is questionable. Well, here
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is some data that is guaranteed to be accurate and make
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Telenet scream. If you wish to update this data on your own,
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we will tell you how later in this text.
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The following chart consists of all the direct Telenet
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addresses of the PC-Pursuit city nodes and the total number
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of modems on each node. Here is what the data means:
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NJNEW/3 2011 .12 56
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! ! ! ! \-- Total Number of Modems in NJNEW
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! ! ! \- Last Working Suffix of Address sequence.
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! ! \- Direct Telenet Address Prefix.
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! \--- Baud Rate of This Port is 300.
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\--------- Mnemonic.
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Please note that there are several perfectly legal ways to
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connect to a PC-Pursuit port such as NJNEW/3:
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Ways To Connect to NJNEW/3:
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1) C D/NJNEW/3,PCP10000,<password> [HUNT]
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2) C 2011,PCP10000,<password> [HUNT]
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3) C 2011.10,PCP10000,<password> [NON HUNT]
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The first, is self explanatory. The second does the same
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thing as the first, only that it is slightly faster and gives
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the user much greater flexibility. The third is an example
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the flexibility, because a request is made to connect to the
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tenth, and only the tenth, modem on the NJNEW/3 port.
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By simply attempting to connect to every single modem
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in the 2011 chain, we were able to count the number of modems
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on each port and come up with the following charts which were
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extracted on June the twenty ninth of the year 1989:
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Rotary Direct Max. City Rotary Direct Max. City
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Port Address Range Total Port Address Range Total
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-------- ------- --- ----- -------- ------- --- -----
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NJNEW/3 2011 .12 56 CAOAK/3 4155 . 4 16
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/12 201301 .40 /12 415216 . 8
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/24 20122 . 4 /24 41511 . 4
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DCWAS/3 202115 . 6 46 CAPAL/3 415106 . 4 12
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/12 202116 .24 /12 415224 . 8
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/24 202117 .16 /24 <NONE> <NONE>
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CTHAR/3 <NONE> <NONE> 8 CASFA/3 415215 . 6 20
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/12 203120 . 8 /12 415217 .10
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/24 <NONE> <NONE> /24 41523 . 4
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WASEA/3 20617 . 4 30 ORPOR/3 50320 . 2 8
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/12 20619 .22 /12 50321 . 6
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/24 20621 . 4 /24 <NONE> <NONE>
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NYNYO/3 212315 . 4 22 AZPHO/3 60222 . 4 20
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/12 212316 .14 /12 60223 .12
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/24 21228 . 4 /24 60226 . 4
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CALAN/3 213412 . 8 40 MNMIN/3 612120 . 4 22
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/12 213413 .28 /12 612121 .14
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/24 21323 . 4 /24 61222 . 4
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TXDAL/3 214117 . 6 30 MABOS/3 617311 . 4 32
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/12 214118 .22 /12 617313 .20
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/24 21422 . 4 /24 61726 . 8
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PAPHI/3 215112 . 6 36 TXHOU/3 713113 . 8 42
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/12 2155 .22 /12 713114 .24
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/24 21522 . 8 /24 71324 .10
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OHCLE/3 21620 . 4 26 CACOL/3 71423 . 4 18
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/12 21621 .18 /12 7144 .10
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/24 216120 . 4 /24 71424 . 4
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CODEN/3 303114 . 4 40 CASAN/3 714119 . 4 20
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/12 303115 .18 /12 714213 .12
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/24 30321 .22 /24 714124 . 4
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FLMIA/3 305120 . 6 28 CASDI/3 714102 . 4 22
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/12 305121 .18 (619)/12 714210 .14
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/24 305122 . 4 /24 714121 . 4
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ILCHI/3 312410 . 8 40 UTSLC/3 80120 . 4 22
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/12 312411 .28 /12 80121 .14
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/24 31224 . 4 /24 80112 . 4
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MIDET/3 313214 . 6 30 FLTAM/3 81320 . 4 18
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/12 313216 .18 /12 81321 .10
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/24 31324 . 6 /24 813124 . 4
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MOSLO/3 3145 . 4 16 MOKCI/3 816104 . 4 20
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/12 314421 . 8 /12 816221 .12
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/24 31420 . 4 /24 816113 . 4
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GAATL/3 404113 . 8 32 CAGLE/3 ??
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/12 404114 .20 /12 81821 .18
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/24 40422 . 4 /24
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CASJO/3 408111 . 4 34 CASAC/3 9167 . 4 16
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/12 40821 .26 /12 91611 . 8
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/24 408110 . 4 /24 91612 . 4
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WIMIL/3 41420 . 4 24 NCRTP/3 91920 . 4 20
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/12 41421 .16 /12 91921 .12
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/24 414120 . 4 /24 919124 . 4
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01/29/89 PC-Pursuit Modems Statistics Chart
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Number of Modems City
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Mnemonic 300 1200 2400 Total
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---------- -------- --------- --------- ---------
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NJNEW 12 40 4 56
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DCWAS 6 24 16 46
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CTHAR 0 8 0 8
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WASEA 4 22 4 30
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NYNYO 4 14 4 22
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CALAN 8 28 4 40
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TXDAL 6 22 4 32
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PAPHI 6 22 8 36
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OHCLE 4 18 4 26
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CODEN 4 18 22 44
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FLMIA 6 18 4 28
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ILCHI 8 28 4 40
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MIDET 6 18 6 30
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MOSLO 4 8 4 16
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GAATL 8 20 4 32
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CASJO 4 26 4 34
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WIMIL 4 16 4 24
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CAOAK 4 8 4 16
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CAPAL 4 8 0 12
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CASFA 6 10 4 20
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ORPOR 2 6 0 8
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AZPHO 4 12 4 20
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MNMIN 4 14 4 22
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MABOS 4 20 8 32
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TXHOU 8 24 10 42
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CACOL 4 10 4 18
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CASAN 4 12 4 20
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CASDI 4 14 4 22
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UTSLC 4 14 4 22
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FLTAM 4 10 4 18
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MOKCI 4 12 4 20
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CAGLE 4 18 4 26
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CASAC 4 8 4 16
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NCRTP 4 12 4 20
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-------- --------- --------- ---------
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Total 166 562 170 898
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======== ========= ========= =========
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Average 4.8823529 16.529412 5 26.411765
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NOTE: CASAC/3, CASAC/24 were estimated.
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I think the statistics basically speak for themselves.
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I am sure there will no doubt be hundreds of people who will
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not smile at the number of specific kinds of ports supported,
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not to mention the number of 'dead' or 'down' modems you will
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find when you verify the totals. Usually, 2% to perhaps 10%
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of the modems are 'dead' with specific ones repeatedly
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failing week after week.
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History Of This Collection:
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===========================
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Almost a year ago a small selected group of devoted
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individuals got together to discuss problems with the PC-
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Pursuit Network, in the middle of our discussions a question
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was asked as to how the network really processes our calls.
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This was intended to help us assess SET? commands and other
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such matters. When the address hypothesis was offered we
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quickly set out to prove it. It was proved in about 3
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minutes with the discovery of 2011 (First try was xxx1). The
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data has continually been collected and analyzed ever since,
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but until now, has never been mass released.
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A small group of teen age hackers discovered several
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interesting things that can be done with these addresses--
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many of which will not be discussed here short of mentioning
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that these ports connected to via these addresses are not
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limited to PC-Pursuiters. You can, however, fight "dead"
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dialout modems in cities via the address method. Dead modems
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can be located in about 10 seconds (faster than Telenet), and
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can either be reported or skipped past by the user connecting
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to the next modem in the sequence after the "dead" one.
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(Note: Say 2011.3 is dead, connect to 2011.4 and you will be
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past it. If 2011.4 is busy, go to 2011.5. The reader should
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notice 2011.3 is the same as 2011C.)
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The most interesting value of these addresses is that
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one can count the number of ports that Telenet keeps so
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secret (Grin). When there were only 28 cities in operation
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there were an average of 2.7 300 baud, 9.4 1200 baud, and 2.5
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2400 baud modems in each city. Some cities had as little as
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2 modems on a port and as many as 12. Only recently has the
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number of modems per city begun to jump.
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How To Update The Count Yourself:
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An ID is not required to "request" one of these ports,
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thus the tallying can be done any time of day by simply
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typing the number at the @ prompt. Here is an example with
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four modems (NJNEW/24):
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@20122.1
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201 22A REFUSED COLLECT CONNECTION 19 80
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@20122.2
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201 22B REFUSED COLLECT CONNECTION 19 80
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@20122.3
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201 22C REFUSED COLLECT CONNECTION 19 80
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@20122.4
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201 22D REFUSED COLLECT CONNECTION 19 80
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@20122.5
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201 22E ILLEGAL ADDRESS 19 80
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The reader should be aware that PC-Pursuit ports always
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respond with '19 80'. Do not confuse it with '19 00', which
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are not PC-Pursuit ports. In the above example we know there
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are four ports because the forth was the last existing port
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before we encountered the 'ILLEGAL ADDRESS.' There are
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several ways to signify that you have gone one beyond the end
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of the ports:
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1) xxx xxx ILLEGAL ADDRESS 19 80
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2) xxx xxx NOT OPERATING 19 80
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3) The request freezes (Note: Issue a BREAK then D <C/R>
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to abort the attempt yielding 'ATTEMPT ABORTED'.)
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You should be aware that modems which are out of order in the
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middle of the sequence can respond with 'NOT OPERATING' or
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may freeze the request. You should also note that when
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updating the existing list, all you need to do is try to
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request the next modem beyond the end as of the last check.
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Finding Newly Added Ports:
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Many ports have not yet been installed; hence, we do not
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yet know the addresses. New ports may be found by entering
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the first three digits of the area code and appending (1-29,
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101-129, 201-229, 301-329, etc.) until the 'REFUSED COLLECT
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CONNECTION 19 80' appears. Once this is found, simply log
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onto the port address with your ID and R/V dial some silly
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series of digits, disconnect the port, then connect to the
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PC-Pursuit mnemonic you think it might be and R/V redial the
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last number. If the numbers match, you found it.
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