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NUMBER OF LINES: 629
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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask....
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2 ********************* REMOVED: 6 JUL 83 *****************************
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3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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4 ************************************************************
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5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION PLACED ON
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6 THIS SYSTEM.
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7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privatly owned
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8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public.
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9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system.
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10 It is intended that the system be normally used for messages and
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11 advertisments by the users. As the system is privatly owned, I retain the
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12 right to remove any and all messages which I may find offensive
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13 to me. Additionally because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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14 periodically purged of older messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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15 The saved information will be cycled to drive 'B' while the information on
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16 drive 'B' will be archived, and a fresh disk will be installed in drive 'A'.
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17 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out
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18 of the enter mode. The message is automaticly stored.
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19 If after entering the message you find you made a mistake,
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20 use the replace command to replace the line.
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21 To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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22 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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23 ========================================
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24
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25 *********************************************************
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26 I just read an article in The Newscientist which says that
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27 I'm a parisite on the female of the sex. Woe is me...
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28 Is it not enough that I am continually bandied with the
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29 concept of me being nothing more then a figurehead without
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30 having to hear my sex being called a parisite as well?
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31 To be more specific, it is calling me a Geonomic disease
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32 sort of like a virus. It's bad enough being called a disease
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33 but to be put in the same catagory as the common cold! That
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34 is a low blow!
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35 As they put it;
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36 Primitive sexuality is a contagious disease. Bacteria
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37 normally reproduce asexually, by splitting in two. But when
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38 Escherichia coli becomes infected with a segment of
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39 parisitic DNA - a plasmoid known as the F factor - the bug
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40 begins to mate (Oh great now they are calling me a bug as
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41 well - tisk tisk) It grows sex pili and uses them to inject
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42 the F factor and bits of its own DNA into other bacteria.
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43 Parisitic DNA may have invented sexual reproduction simply
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44 in order to spread itself around between lineages.
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45 *** A VERY DEPRESSED CISTOP MIKEY *** 8:00PM *** 26 JUN 83 ***
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46 Sorry, Mike, we all gotta come from somewhere, but lay off that parasite
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47 bit; it still takes 2 to make babies. Of course, one man and a lot of
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48 women (or should that be ladies?)....
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49 For all you forth freeks: in the latest Creative there is a review of the
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50 Jupiter Ace, the first(I do beleive) computer that comes with forth in
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51 ROM, so it starts up in forth, not basic. The price is only $150. It is
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52 sort of like an improved Sinclair.
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53 However, for rather less money you can buy a VIC-20, and the VICFORTH
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54 cartridge, get FORTH, more memory, a far better keyboard, color graphics,
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55 and when you want to write a program, can unplug forth, and run BASIC.
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56 We'll have to wait and see what it actually sells for, the VIC is still
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57 being advertised as "less than $299", but last I saw it was nearer $85.
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58 When will we have a small Pascal in ROM?
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59
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60 Oh, by the way Mike, why did you switch discs so soon, there is still
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61 good room on DB?
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62 //////////////////////////////////B.A.D.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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63 DISK DRIVES .....LOW COST...
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64 DOUBLE HEADED 40 TRACK $299.95
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65 15 MEGABYTE INTERNAL WINCHESTERS LESS THAN $1250.00....
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66 40 TRACK MPI FLIPPY JUST $ 249.95
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67 BOB MCKNIGHT 777-xxxx
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68 TRS SPECIALIST REPAIRS AND MODS.LOWER CASE MOD I $40
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69 COCO LOWER CASE $100.00, 64K $85 TRS-80 EXPANSION INTERFACE $350LIKE NEW 48K
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70 BOB MCKNIGHT 777-xxxx IBM CLONE THE CORONA IS A FANTASTIC MACHINE...CALL
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71
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72 OFF
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73 SAVE
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74 OFF
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75 ..............................................
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76 TRON: What was that bit about CHR$(8) & CHR$(9)? I intercept
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77 the KEYBOARD driver at the RAM vector, thus things get changed
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78 BEFORE the video driver can mess them up! When would be a good
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79 time to call you and exchange programs? (I'm leaving msg here
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80 because CBBS is not responding to me. I get carrier and then
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81 nothing......)
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82 _________________________Leonard___________________________
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83 p.s. the U of O has a LISP for the TRS-80!
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84 ___________________________________________________________
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85 \|/
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86 -|-
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87 / \
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88 *
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89 +++
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90 ++
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91 ++
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92 ++
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93 *** ***
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94 ***** *****
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95 **************
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96 *************
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97 ************
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98 ************
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99 *************
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100 **************
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101 ************
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102 **********
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103 *******
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104 KKKKKKKBBBBBAAAAANNNNNGGGGG!!!!!!!
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105 Happy fourth of July from Shibumi...
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106 =======================================
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107 To the person who wanted the BBS numbers on the the other
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108 disk....the # to call to find a very complete BBS listing
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109 is (206) 693-xxxx. That is the vancouver BBS and he has
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110 a very good listing of all the BBS's around the Oregon
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111 and Washington area. (and beyond) Anyway..if you have
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112 not called there before, when the system asks you for a
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113 users ID type "NEWUSER" and for a password type "FIRSTIME".
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114 (without quotes) When you get to a system ready prompt type
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115 "BBLIST" and thats all there is to it.
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116 Be patient. His system operates a little slower than the
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117 others but he has a very complete setup and is worth
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118 checking out. Bye.
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119 =======================================
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120 UP 25
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122 To: Leonard From: Tron Re: Video and keyboard
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123
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124 Yes, that's what I meant. I meant to say that the keyboard
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125 driver routine is intercepted at the KEYBOARD DCB, and same is
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126 true with the Video. Okay, now the sticky stuff. Where does he
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127 want it located? Below BASIC storage area? Protected in high
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128 memory? Where? Also, what does he want, say character codes 9
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129 and 127 to do? Does he want special characters to do special
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130 things like 7 will produce a bell out the cassette port? Tell
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131 me EXACTLY what he wants and I'll write it just for him. You
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132 don't need to tell me EVERY code and what it does, but simply
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133 what ones are different from the ones ordinarrily displayed by
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134 the TRS-80.
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135
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136 Tron
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137 ----------
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138 Mikey:
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139 Who cares what that magazine says? Apparently that guy has a
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140 lot of nerve publishing that thing!
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141 ----------
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142 TO: Berney Fm: CISTOP Mikey
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143 The real reason I changed the disk was that I was getting
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144 Intensively bored with the goings on of late and was hopeing to
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145 inject some new blood with a fresh disk. This was also my reason
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146 for implanting the above article refferance in the hopes that I
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147 would get a response of some sort out of it. I must say that
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148 I am surprized at the ho-hum response so far. As strongly as it
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149 was worded I had expected to get a much stronger reaction.
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150 Hmmm, Maybe it was too strong? I do have to say that the extrapolations
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151 of the ideas were mine, I was simply taking things to their logical
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152 conclusion based on the presented thought pattern. The last
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153 paragraph however is almost verbatim from the article with the
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154 exception of my comment in (). P.S. don't take my comments or
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155 ramblings too seriously, I generally inject them just to see what
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156 kind of response I'll get!
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157 *** CISTOP MIKEY (NOW THE TRUTH IS KNOWN!) *** 27 JUN 83 *** 2:21PM ***
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158 ----------
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159 Does anyone know of a straight line-draw routine for the TRS-80
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160 model I computer? I'd like it so it would hold the first x,y
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161 coordinate in DE and the second x,y coordinate in HL. You call
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162 a routine and it would draw the line. Could anyone do this or
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163 does anyone know of a routine that will? PLEASE respond. I need
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164 this routine bad........
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167 Tron
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168 Any help would be appreciated.
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169 ----------
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170 TO TRON****
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171 IN MY VAST LIBRARY OF "PIRATED" I MEAN DONATED..PROGRAMS I HAVE A COUPLE THAT
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172 DRAW LINE SKETCHES. i'M NOT INTO ASSEMBLY SO i DON'T KNOW HOE THEY WORK.
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173 ASSEMBLY LESSONS WANTED..CALL BOB MCKNIGHT ....
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174
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175 MODEL 1 EXPANSION INTERFACE R/S
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176 WITH 32K JUST $350
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177 MODEL 1 L AND W EXPANSION INTERFACE ...COMPLETE BOARD $250 BOB MCKNIGHT
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178
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179 WELL MICKEY, YOU TRIED, BUT IT SEEMS YOU PICKED A BAD DAY TO START A NEW SESSION
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180 SEEMS CBBS IS HAVING PROBLEMS TODAY SO ALL THE NON ALIASES ARE CALLING HERE TODA
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181 GUESS THAT HOW IT IS SOME TIMES.
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182 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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183 To Pann, Fm Adam Trent,
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184 Hi, Thanks for mentioning the meeting. Last time I tried to go to
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185 the meeting (at the Aloha Computer&Things) the building was vacant.
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186 Did they move or go out of business?? I'll try to make the one at Tek.
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187 I like STOIC over FORTH because, as a high-level language, it offers
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188 a more symetric model for handling strings and string literals. It
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189 has a compile buffer which allows for more flexibility in "immediate"
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190 testing of routines. Haven't used CODE word defining in STOIC (ie, I
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191 haven't dropped into the STOIC assembler). It has one though. Speed
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192 is definitely comparable to FIG-FORTH if you assemble STOIC with-out
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193 stack boundary checking (I like stack boundary checking, tho).
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194 STOIC is 75% 8080 ASM and 25% in itself. FORTH is usually 75% in
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195 itself and 25% in ASM. This generally leads to pretty good
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196 performance for STOIC as compared to FORTH. The STOIC vocabulary
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197 stack is a more rational mechanism than the static vocabulary
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198 tree of FORTH. The FORTH disk access model is more primitive and
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199 thus more flexible than the CP/M file access provided with stock
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200 STOIC. HOWEVER, line numbers (ala BASIC) and screen numbers
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201 (ala FORTH) are absolute references and are DUMB in my opinion.
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202 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$27jun83 - 1835 - Adam Trent$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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203 Ok, someone believes that men are a disease of women. Well, as
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204 a member of the contagious army, I have a proposition:
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205 Any women out there who want to get infected?
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206 ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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207 Caution:the working Heath EBH BASIC version died in a system crash; this
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208 is an earlier version partly converted to Microsoft:::1 CLEAR 1000 ' THIS REPLACES DIM(I$(800)
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209 2 DIM S(40),R(20),L(10),L0(10):3 DIM B$(80) 'This should be part of "clear"??:4 PRINT "BASIC-FORTH V 3":5 ?"by C.H.Ting
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210 6 ?"Dr. Dobb's Journal #60,Oct 81;vol 6,iss10, pp12:20 rem N is SP,M is RP,K is IP,L is W:24 ON ERROR GOTO 29:28 GOTO 30
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211 29 PRINT A$;" ?"; "ERROR ";ERR; "IN ";ERL:30 M=0:32 N=0:50 REM *** TEXT INTERPRETER ***:60 K=1:62 INPUT I$:64 L1=0
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212 70 L(K)=L1:72 L0(K)=LEN(I$):74 L1=L0(K):100 IF N<0 THEN 106:101 IF XZ THEN PRINT 101:104 GOTO 110:106 PRINT "STACK EMPTY"
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213 108 GOTO 30:110 L(K)=L(K)+1:112 IF L(K)>L0(K) THEN 132:114 B$=MID$(I$,L(K),1)'text was B$=MID$(L(K),L(K))
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214 116 IF B$=" " THEN 110:118 A$=B$:120 L(K)=L(K)+1:121 IF L(K)>L0(K) THEN 130:122 B$=MID$(I$,L(K),1)'SEE 114
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215 124 IF B$=" " THEN 130:126 A$=A$+B$'text was A$=A$,B$:128 GOTO 120:130 GOTO 200:132 IF K<2 THEN 60:134 K=K-1
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216 135 I$=LEFT$(I$,L0(K))'text used I$(1,L0(K)):136 L1=L0(K):138 GOTO 110:200 '# DICTIONARY #
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217 210 ' 300 TO 900 = HIGH LEVEL DEFINITOINS:300 IF A$<>"SQUARE" THEN 310:302 B$="DUP *":304 I$=I$+B$'see 135:306 K=K+1
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218 308 GOTO 70:310 IF A$<>"CUBE" THEN 320:312 B$="DUP SQUARE *":314 I$=I$+B$'see 135:316 K=K+1:318 GOTO 70
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219 320 IF A$<>"TEST" THEN 330:322 B$="DO PI 10 / R@ * sin . loop" 'good luck with "@" and MBASIC
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220 324 I$=I$+B$ 'you may want to use something:326 K=K+1 'else:328 GOTO 70:900 '* LOW LEVEL DEFINITIONS - NUCLEUS *
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221 902 IF A$<>"+" THEN 910:904 N=N-1:906 S(N)=S(N)+S(N+1):908 goto 100:910 IF A$<>"-" THEN 920:912 N=N-1
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222 914 S(N)=S(N)-S(N+1):916 GOTO 100:920 IF A$<>"*" THEN 930:922 N=N-1:924 S(N)=S(N)*S(N+1):926 GOTO 100
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223 930 IF A$<>"/" THEN 940:932 N=N-1:934 S(N)=S(N)/S(N+1):936 GOTO 100:940 IF A$<>"ABS" THEN 950:942 S(N)=ABS(S(N))
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224 944 GOTO 100:950 IF A$<>"ATN" THEN 960:952 S(N)=ATN(S(N)):954 GOTO 100:960 IF A$<>"COS" THEN 970:962 S(N)=COS(S(N))
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225 964 GOTO 100:970 IF A$<>"EXP" THEN 980:972 S(N)=EXP(S(N)):974 GOTO 100:980 IF A$<>"INT" THEN 990:982 S(N)=INT(S(N))
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226 984 GOTO 100:990 IF A$<>"LOG" THEN 1000:992 S(N)=LOG(S(N)):994 GOTO 100:1000 IF A$<>"RND" THEN 1010
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227 1002 S(N)=RND(1)'text was S(N)=RND(-N):1004 GOTO 100:1010 IF A$<>"SGN" THEN 1020:1012 S(N)=SGN(S(N)) '? DEF OF SGN ??
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228 1014 GOTO 100:1020 IF A$<>"SIN" THEN 1030:1022 S(N)=SIN(S(N)):1024 GOTO 100:1030 IF A$<>"SQR" THEN 1040
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229 1032 S(N)=SQR(S(N)):1034 GOTO 100:1040 IF A$<>"TAN" THEN 1050:1042 S(N)=TAN(S(N)):1044 GOTO 100:1050 IF A$<>"^" THEN 1060
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231 1064 PRINT S(N-I+1):1066 NEXT I:1068 GOTO 100:1070 IF A$<>"." THEN 1080:1071 IF N<1 THEN 106:1072 PRINT S(N):1074 N=N-1
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232 1076 GOTO 100:1080 IF A$<>"DUP" THEN 1090:1082 N=N+1:1084 S(N)=S(N-1):1086 GOTO 100:1090 IF A$<>"DROP" THEN 1100
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233 1092 N=N-1:1094 GOTO 100:1100 IF A$<>"SWAP" THEN 1110:1102 SWAP S(N),S(N-1):1108 GOTO 100:1110 IF A$<>"OVER" THEN 1120
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234 1112 N=N+1:1114 S(N)=S(N-2):1116 GOTO 100:1120 IF A$<>">R" THEN 1130:1122 M=M+1:1124 R(M)=S(N):1126 N=N-1:1128 GOTO 100
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235 1130 IF A$<>"R>" THEN 1140:1132 N=N+1:1134 S(N)=R(M):1136 M=M-1:1138 GOTO 100:1140 IF A$<>"R@" THEN 1200'see 322
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236 1142 N=N+1:1144 S(N)=R(M):1146 GOTO 100:1200 '* CONTROL STRUCTURES *:1202 IF A$<>"=" THEN 1210:1203 N=N-1
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237 1204 IF S(N)=S(N+1) THEN 1207:1205 S(N)=0:1206 GOTO 100:1207 S(N)=1:1209 GOTO 100:1210 IF A$<>">" THEN 1220:1212 N=N-1
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238 1214 IF S(N)>S(N+1) THEN 1217:1215 S(N)=0:1216 GOTO 100:1217 S(N)=1:1218 GOTO 100:1220 IF A$<>"<" THEN 1230:1222 N=N-1
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240 1232 IF S(N+1)=0 THEN 100'DEF OF "IF"<>0 IS TRUE?;text was IF S(N+1)THEN 100:1233 FOR I=L(K) TO L0(K) -3
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242 1238 PRINT "IF?":1239 GOTO 30:1240 L(K)=I+4:1241 GOTO 100:1242 GOTO 100:1250 IF A$<>"ELSE" THEN 1260:1252 GOTO 1233
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243 1260 IF A$<>"THEN" THEN 1270:1262 GOTO 100:1270 IF A$<>"BEGIN" THEN 1280:1272 M=M+1:1274 R(M)=L(K):1276 GOTO 100
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244 1280 IF A$<>"UNTIL" THEN 1300:1282 N=N-1:1283 IF S(N+1) = 0 THEN 1288'added "=0":1284 IF S(N+1)= 0 THEN 100 ' " "
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245 1286 L(K)=R(M):1287 GOTO 100:1288 M=M-1:1289 GOTO 100:1300 IF A$<>"DO" THEN 1320:1302 M=M+1:1304 R(M)=L(K):1305 M=M+1
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247 1324 IF R(M-1)>R(M) THEN 1330:1326 M=M-3:1328 GOTO 100:1330 L(K)=R(M-2):1332 GOTO 100:1340 '* CONSTANTS *
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248 1500 IF A$<>"PI" THEN 1510:1502 N=N+1:1504 S(N)=3.14159:1506 GOTO 100:1510 IF A$<>"0" THEN 1520:1512 N=N+1:1514 S(N)=0
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249 1516 GOTO 100:1520 IF A$<>"STOP" THEN 1600:1522 STOP:1600 '* NUMBER *:1604 N=N+1:1606 S(N)=VAL(A$):1608 GOTO 100
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250 ::::2000'the end
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252 to use the above. you must convert all colons : to your newline function, usually
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253 a carriage return, line feed or both.
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254 it is about 100-120 characters per line, to fit on here; the 50 or so
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255 lines becomes about 250 when expanded:: it won't work unless expanded.
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256 I don't promise anything; the @ especially is death to Microsoft, at
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257 least in my version,& becomes a newline without ending a logical line.
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258 It simply disappears. Heath basic works OK.
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259 have fun fun fun fun nuf nuf nuf nuf nuf (FORTH IS BACKWARDS)
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260 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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261 Oh, by the wqay Mike, when it seems you are serious, we'll all just
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262 move to CBBS, the Bit Bucket, or PMS,,or??
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263 ...........................................B.A.D.....I still prefer C....
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264 PS IT STARTS AT LINE 1; THE HEADER GOT MIXED IN DURING THE CONDENSING.
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265 ...................................................
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266 .....................................................
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267 ZZZZZZ SNORE
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268 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 28 Jun 83 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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269 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 00:49 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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270 Picture a figure with desolate stance, a wisp of a girl with face
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271 upturned, who waits before a towering door of wood rough-hewn...her eyes
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272 troubled & dark, she reaches for the forbidding knocker, but her hands
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273 tremble as she does so, hesitant to touch the cold metal. She draws back
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274 her hand, and instead rearranges her cloak to wrap her closer against the
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275 unfriendly wind, listening all the while to the raucous laughter, probing
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276 for a familiar voice in the crowd behind the door...
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277 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> d <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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278 Welcome back, Dragon Lady (or may I call you Drag, for short). Sorry
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279 you couldn't join my party. I'm sorry that my prose is rusty and
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280 unimaginative, but as Mr. T said when asked if he'd do Shakespeare,
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281 "I don't talk in that kind of broken english."
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282 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: jb :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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283 Mike, do you have any 600:600 ohm phone line matching transformers just
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284 sitting around gathering dust that I could beg, borrow, steal, or even pay a
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285 little money for??????
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286 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: jb ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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287 ***************************************************************
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288 So I return! I apologize for making fun of Tron. He's one of
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289 my friends out here in Corbett and I just liked to get him back
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290 for a few things he did to me. I reamlly am sorry for making him
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291 sound dumb. He really isn't if you really get to talking. Well,
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292 I'd better get out of here.......
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293 *********************** Darth Vader ***************************
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294 **************
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295
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296 THIS IS YOUR EMPEROR!
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297
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298 YOU WILL ALL SURRENDER TO THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE AT ONCE,
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299 OR YOU SHALL SUFFER A FATE WORSE THAN ANYTHING YOU HAVE EVER
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300 SEEN BEFORE.
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301
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302
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304 TO: "TRON"
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305
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306 TEE DAWSON HAS INFORMED ME THAT YOU
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307 PROGRAM IN MACHINE LANGUAGE AND ARE
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308 VERY GOOD WITH MOST COMPUTERS.
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309 I PROGRAM IN MACHINE CODE FOR
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310 THE 6502 (1 1/2 YEARS), AND A LITTLE
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311 ON THE Z-80, AS WELL AS PROGRAMMING IN
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312 SEVERAL OTHER LANGUAGES.
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313 TEE SUGGESTED THAT I GET IN TOUCH
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314 WITH YOU. I AM INTERESTED IN WHAT YOU
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315 CAN DO AND MABEY WE COULD EXCHANGE SOME
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316 TECHNICAL INFORMATION.
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317 I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD
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318 LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR ERIK ROGERS EITHER
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319 HERE OR ON THE BIT BUCKET.
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320 THANKS.
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321 ----------------------------------------
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322 TO: JB FM: MIKE RE:TRANSFORMERS
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323 SORRY, I DON'T HAVE ANY PRESENTLY, SUGGEST YOU GO DOWN TO
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324 RADAR ELECTRIC, THAT'S WHERE I WAS GETTING MINE.
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325 AS I REMEMBER, THEY ONLY CARRYED THE CENTER TAPPED VERSION
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326 IN STOCK, BUT THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM, JUST DON'T HOOK ANYTHING
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327 TO THE CENTER TAP.
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328 *****************************************************
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329 GEE, WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE GOOD STUFF THAT USED
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330 TO BE ON HERE AND IS A TRADITION OF THE BACKWATER BBS?
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331 ======================================
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332 Greetings, O Lady of Dragons! Come and be seated. Wouldst thou
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333 care for some of the innkeeper's mead? No matter, if thou wish
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334 anything I'm sure that thou shalt find it.
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335 Now that thou art comfortable, pray tell us what thou
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336 wouldst discuss. May I be so bold as to request some aid in the
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337 proper conjugation of certain verbs? (I am QUITE aware that
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338 "thou wish" is incorrect, but I must needs confess my ignorance
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339 of the proper form.)
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340
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341 Welcome and well-met,
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342 _____________________________the apprentice_____________________
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343 --------------
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344
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345 THIS IS EMPEROR PALLPATINE.
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346
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347 NONE OF YOU HAS SURRENDERED TO THE DARK SIDE. NOW FOR YOU LACK
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348 YOU WILL DIE!!!!!
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349
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350
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351
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352 THERE YOUR EARS SHOULD BE WELL FRIED BY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
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353 ----------
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354 HOW DOES ONE GET CP/M TO COME UP ON THIS THING????
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355
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356
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357 ---------
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358 Emporer,
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359 You can't make me do anything! I am not going to surrender to
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360 the dark side of the Force because the dark side sucks! Fortunatley
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361 for me, my terminal doesn't have a built in bell. So, face on
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362 you buddy!
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363
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364 Tron
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365 P.S. Never mess with Tron...........
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366 ---------
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367 ************************************j***************************************
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368 This is an attempt to test a modem 1 on a TRS-80 Model 4
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369 *************************************************************************.**
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370 WELL, IS SURE SEEMS TO WORK.
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371
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372 ---------------------
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373 HEY EMPORER,
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374 HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW IT
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375 FEELS TO HAVE THE ELECTRON SPRAY IN
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376 YOUR CRT PAINT YOUR FACE?
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378
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379 BIT BYTER
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380 ----------------------
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381 If you do a "CC N" when you sign on, you will avoid the bell anyway!!
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382 __________Max Grody____________________________________________
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383 Hey, little lizard, is your tongue sharp enough to do battle with
|
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384 _________Max Grody____?????????????????????????????????????????
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385 Apprentice, if you try "thou wilst", you are in the ballpark, I seem to
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386 remember that was common a few years back, somewhere, somewhen,
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387 or thereabouts.
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388 In the new Newsweek there is an article on supercomputers, and the "race
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389 with Japan, Inc. to produce one. It seems there is some fear that the
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390 about $1 billion planned to be spent in the US isn't enough to offset
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391 the $200 million that Japan is about to spend. They took over the
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392 pocket calculator market, the elecrtonic watch market, and now
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393 supercomputers? They haven't even made a dent in the microcomputer market
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394 yet. (Except for printers) And this is because they haven't been able to
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395 get into the software. Yet. We won't say anything about the fact that
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396 the US firms that are trying to beat out Japan are afraid of being sued
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397 for doing the very thing that Japan is doing. (Neither IBM nor AT&T
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398 would join, because of the legal problems.) Right we (US) own the market,
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399 all 76 machines of it. I believe the person who wrote the article was
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400 severely overstating the importance of this huge market; the very fact
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401 that IBM is not counted among the makers of supercomputers says a little
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402 about their view of the value of such, or the market possibilites of the
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403 things. (To a company that sells about half the big computers in the world,
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404 and about 1/5 the small ones, (( a million or so)) the possibility of
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405 selling another dozen isn't worth the cost.) Will a few billion bucks
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406 really be enough? After all, most of the present super c's are made by
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407 Cray, and designed by one person (Cray himself), who also laid the basis
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408 for much of the competion's (CDC's).
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409 The interesting thing is the comments on what is "just around the corner"
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410 in the field of artificial intelligence: computers who talk, and can be
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411 talked to, or ones that seem truly "intelligent" (ie, in an open discussion,
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412 can seem aware of what is happening, and react or answer in a sensible
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413 manner). Why is this so especially noteworthy? Because I have a book
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414 written in the mid 1950's ( 30 years ago) that said that the same things
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415 were JUST AROUND THE CORNER! Machine translation from one language to
|
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416 another seemed closer then than it does today, because it has been tried,
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417 and fell on it's butt. Truly, we are a lot closer to artificial
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418 intelligence today (by about 30 years) but God alone knows how long more
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419 we must wait. My guess is that when such a machine is built, we won't know
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420 it, because it will take abut 20 years to program it. In other words,
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421 about as long as it takes to program it's competion, the human brain.
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422 If something that operates about a million times slower is a more powerful
|
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423 computer, just maybe they are looking in the wrong direction?? How
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424 about parallel processing? Use 10 million neurons to replace one IC,
|
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425 try holographic encodeing in 100 million for a memory, with majority
|
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426 logic for error correction, feed it sugar and ATP, in water, call it
|
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427 a brain, house it in a self replicating, self repairing, self programming
|
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428 body, and call it a person. It isn't obsolete yet.
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429 //////////////////////////////////B.A.D.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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430 -----
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431 Once the program for the "intelligent" computer was finished, however, you
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432 could have it build more "intelligent" computers or just copy its program
|
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433 to another computer.
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434 -----
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435 So, you say, the supercomputer can outdo its human rival: real, live cloning
|
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436 ! Or will that take 9 months, too. 'Course, it now takes a human babe
|
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437 'bout 20 years to gain a bit of judgment, right?
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438 *&**&*&**&*&**&*&*&**&*&*&*&*&**&*&*&***&*&**&*&*&**&***&***&
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439 Apprentice: Learn these things: Honor thy teachers, but be ye wary lest ye
|
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440 grasp the wrong lessons. 'Tis ill-formed to speak with the contractive
|
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441 tongue; 'tis worse to pen it. Refrain ye from words like "conjugate", lest
|
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442 ye raise yon hairy crop upon the backs of your fingers. Ol' Master
|
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443 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|
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444 The problem with computer translation of languages isn't the
|
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445 computer's fault. If you want proof, consider the following:
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446 Ask someone what "yeah" means. They will probably say something
|
|||
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447 like "it means yes, or indicates agreement". To this you respond
|
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448 "Oh yeah?"
|
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449 Try running that thru a computer! My point is that the REAL
|
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450 problem is that while you can tell a computer how to do ANYTHING
|
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451 we usually get upset when it does what it was told to. We really
|
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452 DON'T know what the rules for various human languages are and
|
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453 we certainly have no idea what "intelligence" IS. When we figure
|
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454 out what it is, we will probably find that we COULD have done it
|
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455 with present day machines.
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456 __________________________Leonard_______________________________
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457 To: Bob McKnight From: Tron Re: Assembly lessons
|
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458
|
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459
|
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460 Bob, I called you a few days ago concerning assembly language.
|
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461 I think I may have contacted your son or a kid in the house but
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462 I'll teach you assembly language if you are willing to learn.
|
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463 Give me a call at 695-xxxx Mondays through Mondays from 10:00am
|
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464 to 8:30pm.
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465
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466 Tron
|
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467 _____________
|
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468 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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469
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470 THIS IS THE EMPEROR....YOU ARE ALL MY SLAVES......PUT DOWN YOUR
|
|||
|
471 LIGHTSABERS AND COME TO ME ON YOUR KNEES.....GIVE UP YOUR APPLES
|
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472 AND TURN THEM IN FOR IBM'S...IF YOU DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'LL
|
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473 GET........SOME OF THIS....
|
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474
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475 GOT IT....GOOD....EVERYTHING HAS GONE ACCORDING TO MY PLANS...
|
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476
|
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477 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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478 TO:CISYOP MIKEY FM:THE EMPEROR
|
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479 SJ:CP/M
|
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480
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481 MIKEY,
|
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482 HOW DOES I GET CP/M TO COME UP...YOU CHANGE THE PASSWORD???
|
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483
|
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|
484 P.S. DON'T FOOL WITH ME..!!
|
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485 TO:ANYONE INTERESTED. FROM:THE BRUISER
|
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|
486 THERE IS A BBS IN CAL. THAT HAS A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF!!! CALL 408-253-xxxx
|
|||
|
487 I HAVE AN ATARI 800. BUT THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF PROGRAMS AND GAMES YOU CAN
|
|||
|
488
|
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489 GET.
|
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490
|
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491 BY THE WAY, DO YOU THINK THAT DARTH VADER GOODSIDE COMING OUT IN THE RETURN
|
|||
|
492 OF THE JEDI COINCIDES WITH THE REBIRTH OF PORTLAND'S MEANEST,FOULEST,DIRTIEST
|
|||
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493 WRESTLER, I.E. PLAYBOY BUDDY ROSE.(YEAH, WE WANT BUDDY). MAYBE THERES HOPE
|
|||
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494 FOR REAGAN.(HEY,HEY,HES NO GOOD. SEND HIM BACK TO HOLLYWOOD.)
|
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495 ==========
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496 Someone above said that it takes 20 years for someone to develop
|
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497 judgement. Well, in the case of some who use this system, I suspect it
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498 will take a lot longer.
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499 ==========
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500 From the looks of things, it may be never for most of the inhabitants.
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|
501 Also, the existence of intelligence is more probable in computers
|
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502 than among the present generation!!!!!!
|
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503 _________Max Grody_________________________________________________
|
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|
504 DOES ANYWON WITH A BERANE USE THIS SISTEM???? IF SOO, DROP ME
|
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|
505 ----------------------------------------------------------------
|
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|
506 CPM NO LONGER EXISTS ON THIS SYSTEM... SORRY
|
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507 ******* CISTOP MIKEY ****** 30 JUN 83 *************************
|
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|
508 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|
|||
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509 THERE MAY YET BE SOME INTELLIGENT LIFE
|
|||
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510 FORMS DRIFTING AMONG US, BUT THEY
|
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|
511 REMAIN TO BE FOUND!
|
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512
|
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513 <<BIT BYTER>>
|
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514 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|
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|
515
|
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516 NEW SHIPMENT OF DISK DRIVES JUST ARRIVED BOB MCKNIGHT 777-2555
|
|||
|
517 JUST WANTED TO SEE IF A NEW MODEM WORKS. NOW I WONDER IF
|
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518 I CAN READ THIS BACK?
|
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|
519 ============================
|
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520 YEP. THE MURA 100 WORKS FINE.
|
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521 =============GRIZ=============
|
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522 Tron, I got back from work at about 11 pm and it was too
|
|||
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523 late to call ya. I'll try to call tomorrow from work, but I'll
|
|||
|
524 probably be back around the same time so I won't call from home.
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|||
|
525 Got a bunch of new games from Steve... there is a set of term-
|
|||
|
526 inating resistors in my interface that make the computer think
|
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|
527 the joystick is pushed every way at once (they pull the data
|
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528 lines to ground) so I've had to go through most of the games
|
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|
529 and zap the joystick routines. It's easy though; just search
|
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|
530 the disk file for a DB 00 (IN A,(0)) and change it to a
|
|||
|
531 3E FF (LD A,0FFH). Once you get started it's almost automatic.
|
|||
|
532 Hey, I should build a DO file to do all the busywork for me...
|
|||
|
533 Anyway, call ya later.
|
|||
|
534 --------------------------------ag-------------------------
|
|||
|
535 **************************************************************.*
|
|||
|
536
|
|||
|
537 TO: ADAM TRENT FM: MIKE DAY RE: AMODEM
|
|||
|
538
|
|||
|
539 I have found a bug which may have been giving you problems,
|
|||
|
540 in the routine that waits for the SOH from the sender,
|
|||
|
541 change the following:
|
|||
|
542
|
|||
|
543 RCVSOHE PUSH B
|
|||
|
544 MVI B,1
|
|||
|
545 CALL RECV
|
|||
|
546 POP B
|
|||
|
547 JNC RCVSOHE
|
|||
|
548
|
|||
|
549 LDA RSENDBF
|
|||
|
550 CALL SEND
|
|||
|
551
|
|||
|
552 To look like this:
|
|||
|
553
|
|||
|
554 RCVSOHE LDA RSENDBF
|
|||
|
555 CALL SEND
|
|||
|
556
|
|||
|
557 This eliminates the garbage collection at this point which
|
|||
|
558 was gobbling up the SOH so that the receiver never saw it.
|
|||
|
559 It has a side benifit of boosting local high speed transfers
|
|||
|
560 by at least 4 to 1! The disavantage is that if the sender
|
|||
|
561 times out and resends the sector again you will get a buch
|
|||
|
562 of garbage but it seems to recover nicely anyway.
|
|||
|
563 The above routine occurs in the AMODEMR.ASM file.
|
|||
|
564
|
|||
|
565 **************************************************************
|
|||
|
566 Andy,
|
|||
|
567 When are you going to be free one of these days? Maybe we can
|
|||
|
568 swap some games over the modem. Whaddya think? Talk to ya later.
|
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|
569
|
|||
|
570 Tron
|
|||
|
571 ----------
|
|||
|
572 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
573 Who will take this challenge? Please don't divulge the answers.....
|
|||
|
574 " My darlin' Lil,
|
|||
|
575 You just got to get me out of this jail tonight. Bring my horse and
|
|||
|
576 tie his reins to the back window; have him pull them bars right off.
|
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|
577 But don't make a sound 'til then.
|
|||
|
578 Trouble is, I don't know which cell I'm in! But here's what I do know
|
|||
|
579 about the layout of the jail:
|
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|
580 There's six cells back here, all in a row, and each one has a high window
|
|||
|
581 facin' the back alley. I'm in a cell next to a feller name of Buck. He's
|
|||
|
582 on my right as I stand facin' the door of my cell. Don't know if there's
|
|||
|
583 anybody in the cell on my other side--that cell's either empty or the
|
|||
|
584 feller in there's real quiet-like.
|
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|
585 Buck's a regular here. He's been fussin' on account of he didn't get his
|
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586 usual corner cell, which is empty right now. He says there's two other
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587 fellers in here with us: Jake and Bart.
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588 I hear tell this Jake is a real famous desperado. They got him off by
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589 himself--nobody next to him. Haven't heard a peep from him the whole time.
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590 That other feller, Bart, is a real noisy one, always singin' cowboy
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591 songs.
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592 They just come to take Jake off to Abilene to stand trial. I leaned my
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593 head against the bars and looked down the hall to my right, and caught a
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594 glimpse of him. Real mean-lookin'.
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595 Please come and get me tonight. Love, Dan"
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596 ????? Which of the windows is Dan's? ???????
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597 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DAVE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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598 None of them, he doesn't own the jail.
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599 :::::::::::::::::::
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600 ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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601 GIVE IT TO 'EM' BRUISER. LET EM KNOW WHO AND WHAT
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602 IS REAL CLEAN FUN.......
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603 +}+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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604 DAN IS IN THE 4TH CELL FROM THE LEFT, AS YOU FACE THE WINDOWS
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605 FROM THE OUTSIDE.
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606 ======================GRIZ======================-===========
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607 try the 2nd cell from the left as you face the windows from the outside
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608 _________Grey ghost_____________________________________
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609 HELP
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615 HELP
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616 Dan is in the left corner cell as you face the windows. He didn't
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617 realize that there is no cell on his left.
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618 ########################### Buck Rogers, 21st Century Kid ############
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619 Anyone for nasty comments? This is the typical
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620 'puzzle freaks delight', but is unfortunately full of holes: there are
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621 several possible answers, as not enough data is given, but a lot is
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622 assumed. The cells are in a line, but is the line straight? not said.
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623 Did you ASSUME that the corner cell that Buck isn't in means he isn't
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624 in a corner cell? There may be 2 corners. Or more cells around the corner.
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625 But let's not quibble, the story line won't cut anyway, no horse can
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626 pull out jail bars with his reins.
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627 .... well, got back on. Did Ma Bell pull a sneaky?
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628 How many other answers are coming in? I think there are several.
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629 One line left?? how can we answer in one line??????bad, very B.A.D.....
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