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163 lines
6.9 KiB
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PROTOCOL: ALT
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CONNECT 2400
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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
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03/14/94 22:41:38
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Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U
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?^U
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?^U
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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss
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Logging name to disk...
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You are caller 232128; next msg =46602; 368 active msgs.
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Prev. call 03/11/94 @ 06:12, next msg was 46597
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Recording logon for next time.
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Use FULL? to check assignments
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?^U
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?xxxxx
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"Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to abo
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>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short
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LOG. 11
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KILLED. 70
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SUMMARY. 25
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:12:08,232094,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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E#46597,
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E#46598,17
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03/11/94,11:22:47,232095,2,GARY ELFRING,,17
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03/11/94,14:54:37,232096,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,1
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03/11/94,15:02:13,232097,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,0
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03/11/94,15:11:39,232098,2,BILL TRESNAK,bartlett/il,21
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]thanks for stillwaters phone#
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BILL TRESNAK,
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03/11/94,17:06:27,232099,2,WILLIAM BERGMAN,Roselle/Il,11
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03/11/94,20:22:39,232100,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,0
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03/11/94,21:08:07,232101,2,ICARUS BARABUS,chicago,9
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03/12/94,00:42:46,232102,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,1
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03/12/94,15:27:18,232103,2,DERRICK MARTIN,chicago/ il,4
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03/12/94,15:32:34,232104,2,PETE CANTELE,,3
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03/12/94,15:37:42,232105,2,ANDY SHAPIRO,,1
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03/12/94,16:13:43,232106,2,ALEX ZELL,,
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03/12/94,17:13:19,232107,2,JIM THALE,,2
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03/12/94,18:52:48,232108,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,1
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03/12/94,19:10:03,232109,2,EDWARD MARSH,,
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>Help: HELP NEW MESSAGES,
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>Help: A,
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E#46599,23
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03/12/94,20:10:00,232110,2,MARTY DIPPEL,,2
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03/12/94,20:29:42,232111,2,ED FOSTER,,2
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03/12/94,22:41:40,232112,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,1
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03/12/94,23:37:53,232113,2,EDWARD KEEGAN,Chicago,14
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03/13/94,00:20:03,232114,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,,4
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03/13/94,14:18:07,232115,2,BILL MATTSON,,2
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03/13/94,15:48:43,232116,2,JIM THALE,,1
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03/13/94,16:27:31,232117,2,CYRUS PATEL,,0
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03/13/94,21:43:59,232118,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,1
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03/13/94,22:38:12,232119,2,DAVID JOHNSON,,5
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03/13/94,23:42:47,232120,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,1
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03/14/94,01:42:12,232121,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,1
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03/14/94,03:30:33,232122,2,PHIL SCHUMAN,,2
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03/14/94,03:33:26,232123,2,DENNIS SLADEK,,2
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03/14/94,09:49:06,232124,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,0
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03/14/94,16:46:30,232125,2,PAUL STREETER,,
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03/14/94,18:22:04,232126,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,1
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03/14/94,21:17:59,232127,2,ROY LIPSCOMB,,
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E#46600,
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E#46601,9
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03/14/94,22:41:42,232128,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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46597 03/11/94 WARD CHRISTENSEN => KEVIN HUOTARI: "R/HAMFESTS"
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46598 03/11/94 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ROY LIPSCOMB: "R/ALZHEIMER'S AND OLD PCS"
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46599 03/12/94 EDWARD MARSH => ALL: "JAPAN PART CROSS REF'S"
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46600 03/14/94 ROY LIPSCOMB => WARD/ALL: "ALZHEIMER'S AND OLD PCS"
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46601 03/14/94 ROY LIPSCOMB => ALL: "(I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP)"
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- End of summary -
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Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.
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Msg 46597 is 05 line(s) on 03/11/94 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to KEVIN HUOTARI re: R/HAMFESTS
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Thanks, nice to hear from you again. Grays Lake Hamfest, is that the one
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up near the Wisconsin border? I recall going to that one about a year ago.
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Thanks for all the kind words!
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Heh, no, '.' isn't how you get out of input mode on CBBS - it is just a
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blank line.
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Msg 46598 is 25 line(s) on 03/11/94 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to ROY LIPSCOMB re: R/ALZHEIMER'S AND OLD PCS
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Thanks for the msg, Roy. That "long seek" you found was NOT to the
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diagnostic cylinder - if it was a slow kind of "grinding" or "buzzing"
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sort of sound - if I'm guessing right, that was a "recalibrate". That
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is a function the drive contains, for figuring out "where it is".
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When the drive seeks, it does a read to see what cylinder it is on.
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If the cylinder isn't the one it expected, which can be due to failing
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seek mechanism, or due to loss of magnetism (can't read the required
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header info once the seek is done) then it does a "recal" which is a
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process like "Oops, I can't figure where I am, so I'd better very slowly
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and carefully seek back out to track 0 (at which point a special sensor
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says 'OK, you've gotten to track 0') at which time I can again seek
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quickly to various cylinders".
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Actually the drive has NO idea of "absolute seeks" - it can NOT seek
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say to track 123, but what it does is say "OK, lets see, I'm on track
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83, so I have to step in 40 tracks to get to track 123", i.e. it always
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seeks RELATIVE to its past position. Thus, if it ever gets lost, it
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could have done a seek to 123 but arrive at 122 due to a hardware glitch,
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so it has to slowly (since for all it knows, something could have gone
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wrong and it could ACTUALLY be on track 2!) seek back until it finds
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itself at 0, THEN quickly issue 123 "step in" commands.
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Spinrite helped because of reading a track's worth of data, then
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low level formatting that track, then writing the info back. Backing up,
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doing a low-level format, and restoring, would have done the job, too.
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Spinrite is nice in that you don't "have" to back up and restore, though
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you SHOULD have a backup "just in case".
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Msg 46599 is 15 line(s) on 03/12/94 from EDWARD MARSH
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to ALL re: JAPAN PART CROSS REF'S
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I have a few parts that I am trying to cross reference from a japanese product.
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I called Tri-state and found that no cross matches could be found under the
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part numbers I gave. I have no idea how to find such information and would
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like it if anyone out there knows of such a reference. I have the following
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parts:
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D571: transistor I think?
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C3457: Power MOS fet?, Regulator?,
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D1805: tansistor?
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The D571 & D1805 are three terimal devices, and are in packages that I
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have never seen. (not a TO-226). The case is more square that round.
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The C3457 is in a TO-220 case (same as the 78xx regulator series case).
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Any info anyone can offer would be appreciated.
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Thank you!
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Msg 46600 is 09 line(s) on 03/14/94 from ROY LIPSCOMB
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to WARD/ALL re: ALZHEIMER'S AND OLD PCS
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Thanks, Ward, for your clarification on what was going on in the
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hard drives. SPINRITE has one advantage over the low-level reformating
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done by other utilities: SPINRITE can also adjust the sector
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interleave. Mine was already set to optimum (2:1), but my friend's
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old ATT 6300 was reset to 7:1 (from 5:1) by SPINRITE, and the
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throughput was increased to 112,000 bps (from 27,000 bps). The
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improvement is quite noticeable. "Just because there's snow on the
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roof, don't think there isn't fire in the furnace!" (For those
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whippersnappers among us, "snow" refers to "white hair.")
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Msg 46601 is 10 line(s) on 03/14/94 from ROY LIPSCOMB
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to ALL re: "(I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP)"
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From the Chicago TRIBUNE, March 6, 1994, Section 4, p. 3:
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"Some people who have bought computers, bedazzled with reports
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about their possibilities, can't even get started. One computer
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manufacturer told the Wall Street Jounal its help line gets 8,000
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calls a day. A customer complained, for example, that her computer
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wouldn't work even though she kept pushing her foot on the pedal.
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She had to be told that you don't step on a mouse.
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"A man couldn't get his computer to fax a letter even though
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he held it in front of the screen and repeatedly pushed the 'send'
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button."
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dup. chars.
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>Function:? |