textfiles/bbs/CBBS/1991/911105.ch

CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
11/05/91 22:50:49

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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss

Logging name to disk...
You are caller 224187; next msg =45226;  376 active msgs.
Prev. call 11/04/91 @ 06:01, next msg was 45221
Recording logon for next time...
Use FULL? to check assignments
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"Mine" command checking for msgs TO you,  ^K
>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short
LOG.          6 
KILLED.      21 
SUMMARY.     25 
11/04/91,06:00:36,224157,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
11/04/91,06:02:02,224157,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,7
11/04/91,06:52:25,224158,2,ALEX ZELL,,
11/04/91,08:28:34,224159,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,2
11/04/91,10:59:04,224160,1,ROY LIPSCOMB,,
E#45221,4
11/04/91,13:55:41,224161,2,DENNIS STAHL,,3
11/04/91,16:21:25,224162,2,BOB KOBETSKY,,2
11/04/91,16:31:47,224163,2,ANDREW DECKOWITZ,,2
11/04/91,19:16:07,224164,2,DON PIVEN,,2
11/04/91,20:01:25,224165,1,RICK SHUL,chg,23
11/04/91,21:16:59,224166,2,TERRY MURPHY,WAUKGENA IL,
>Help: |E^1+GV:XGNJ[W32R],5
11/04/91,21:33:41,224167,1,BERNARD GOLDLUST,,1
11/04/91,22:22:58,224168,1,ANDY SHAPIRO,,
E#45222,11
11/04/91,22:37:43,224169,2,BILL FISCHER,,16
11/04/91,23:41:37,224170,2,BILL MATTSON,,4
11/05/91,00:18:13,224171,1,DAVID JOHNSON,,4
11/05/91,01:49:31,224172,9,ERIC BOHLMAN,,3
11/05/91,07:31:39,224173,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
11/05/91,11:04:05,224174,2,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,,
E#45223,
E#45224,13
11/05/91,12:44:22,224175,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
11/05/91,13:34:50,224176,2,LYNN ANDERSON,,13
11/05/91,14:58:20,224177,1,RICH TRENKAMP,,3
11/05/91,15:57:53,224178,2,MARK SAYLES,SPRINGFIELD MO,4
11/05/91,17:00:42,224179,1,GEORGE LIMBERG,,9
11/05/91,19:25:59,224180,2,MARTY DIPPEL,,4
11/05/91,19:40:35,224181,2,JAMES SCHMIDT,,2
11/05/91,20:14:44,224182,2,CHARLIE KESTNER,,6
11/05/91,21:20:35,224183,2,JERRY HASLETT,,
E#45225,6
11/05/91,22:21:30,224184,2,ED FOSTER,,2
11/05/91,22:25:23,224185,2,JIM POLOUS,,0
11/05/91,22:44:16,224186,1,ROSEMARY PARKER,GURNEE/ ILL,3
]WELL, IT IS MY FIRST TIME IT IS COOL... THAT IS ALL I DONT KNOW WHAT
TO SAY...
ROSEMARY PARKER,
11/05/91,22:50:53,224187,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
45221 11/04/91 ROY LIPSCOMB => JAMES KARAGANIS: "FAST STEP RATE"
45222 11/04/91 ANDY SHAPIRO => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/STATIC #2"
45223 11/05/91 MICHAEL SHARTIAG => ANDY SHAPIRO: "R/STATIC #2"
45224 11/05/91 MICHAEL SHARTIAG => ALL: "SWITCHES ON V-CARD& SYNC'S"
45225 11/05/91 JERRY HASLETT => BOB SULLIVAN: "R/SUB LIBR SYSTEM BACKWARD STE"

     ---- End of summary ----    

Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.

Msg 45221 is 02 line(s) on 11/04/91 from ROY LIPSCOMB
to JAMES KARAGANIS re: FAST STEP RATE

Thanks for your response.  Since there have been no negative
responses, I'll go with the 3 ms steprate.

Msg 45222 is 18 line(s) on 11/04/91 from ANDY SHAPIRO
to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/STATIC #2

Ward, back in my old Chicago/CP/M days, I used to have a Kaypro 2
(well, I still do, but).  Anyway.  It had a metal keyboard
case and, when I was charged up and touched it, it would freeze the
keyboard. I don't know why, since the case was grounded, except to
think that the tiny conductors in the 'phone cable they used for
keyboard connection didn't handle things too well.
 In any event, I became convinced that the problem lay in
a chip that simply 'latched' when power was applied.  I could easily
fix the problem by unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back in.
 I suspect something similar on your serial port.  I'd wager that if you
could remove ALL POWER from the machine, it would reset the serial port
to normal.  Problem is, especially in laptops, that turning off the
power doesn;t really TURN OFF THE POWER.  All sorts of
those little electron guys are running around in there all the time,
and you know what that means.
 Try removing the batteries (unless there are soldered-in backups) and
see what happens.  I'd just BET that fixes the serial port.  Of
course, there goes your setup information... ;-$

Msg 45223 is 11 line(s) on 11/05/91 from MICHAEL SHARTIAG
to ANDY SHAPIRO re: R/STATIC #2

  Sometimes even removing power is not enough.  With a recent series of
motherboards, it was possible to set up a memory/wait state configuration
that would not allow the machine to run.  Removing the battery was not
sufficient to clear it. (Either a cap or the CMOS chip itself was capable
of holding a small yet large enough charge to sustain the chip's memory
for some time.  |With battery and power removed, a pin had to be shorted
to ground.
     As a follow up to the serial port question, and the 1488/89 chips
and associated circuitry, with power off, taking both pin 2 & 3 to ground
might clear the port.  ( I pulled the chips last time I had a freeze and
it cleared it... I'll have to try the above next time and report back)

Msg 45224 is 09 line(s) on 11/05/91 from MICHAEL SHARTIAG
to ALL re: SWITCHES ON V-CARD& SYNC'S

    I am trying to hookup a non-standard (Apollo) large screen monitor to
my PC.  After going through all of my video card manuals, none of them s
state what the actual functions of the 4 switches are, yet all of them seem
to be doing the same thing (VGA & multi mode cards)....
Does anyone know what the exact functions of these switches are???
  2) The apollo monitor takes only 1 sync signal in (combined horz & vert)
and may be aldo allow one to come in the sync signal and the other on the
GREEN singal.  Is there a simple circuit for combining the PC's horz & vert
sync signals into 1 composite signal to feed to the monitor?

Msg 45225 is 06 line(s) on 11/05/91 from JERRY HASLETT
to BOB SULLIVAN re: R/SUB LIBR SYSTEM BACKWARD STE

The public domain communications program known a kermit comes
originally from Columbia U. but was written by Joe DOUPNIK  OF
Utah State U.  The version which I use is 3.0 AND does a
vt100 emulation.  If you wish to call me...
day:  312 413 2786    eve: 312 525 0518
good luck
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