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ZMAGAZINE JUNE 22, 1987
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ISSUE 58
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PUBLISHER/EDITOR-----> RON KOVACS
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ASSISTANT PUBLISHER--> KEN KIRCHNER
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80 COLUMN EDITOR +
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ASSISTANT PUBLISHER--> SUSAN PERRY
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ZMAGAZINE OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS:
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40 The Syndicate: (201) 968-8148
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80 The Gateway : (609) 931-3014
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Xx ZMAG INDEX 58
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-1- Publishers Page
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-2- Zmag User Group of June (RIACE)
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-3- Zmag Software Capsule Reviews
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-4- FCC Proposal
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-5- IBM Emulator Update
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-6- Hardware Update
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-7- ZMAG Newswire
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-8- Online Magazine News
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-9- Next Week in Zmagazine
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Xx PUBLISHERS PAGE
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Welcome to another edition of Zmag.
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I received news this week about the
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current status of the ST Transformer.
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ANALOG MAGAZINE is purchasing the
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program and it will appear in the
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August or September issue. Stay tuned
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for details.....
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You might have noticed in a few
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issues, spelling errors!!! Well the
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errors are not because of my lack
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of correct spelling. If the system
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you read ZMAG on is an Express BBS,
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you will see the errors.
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I failed to remove the SHIFT 6
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character from the issue. When you
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read any issue online that contains
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this, you will either find letters
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missing or even strange things like
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your name, numbers, etc...
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In this and future editions that
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character will be replaced by the
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character (+). Sorry for any
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inconvience.
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Xx ZMAG USER GROUP OF THE MONTH JUNE
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.....Rhode Island Atari Computer
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Enthusiasts RI ACE.....
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You can become a member of RI ACE by
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sending a check or money order to:
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RI ACE
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c/o Steve Dunphy
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192 Webster Ave.
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Cranston, R.I.
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The dues are $20.00 yearly. 24 hr BBS
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# 401-521-4234 in Prov. R.I.
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Xx ZMAG SOFTWARE REVIEWS
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By:James Delson
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Battle of Antietam
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Strategic Simulations, Inc.
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1046 N. Rengstorff Ave.
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Mountain View, CA 94043
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(415) 964-1200
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PRICE: $50
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RATINGS:
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Overall performance: Excellent
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Documentation: Excellent
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Play system: Excellent
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Graphics quality: Good
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Ease of use: Difficult
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Value for money: Excellent
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Although there have been only two
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Civil War computer games in the past
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four years (The Road to Gettysburg
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and The Battle of Chickamauga), each
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marked a significant innovation in
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the field of strategy and tactics.
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Now, the latest, Battle of Antietam,
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follows its predecessors by taking
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the war-game genre into fresh
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territory.
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A re-creation of the bloodiest day in
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American military history, Antietam
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equals the best from Chickamauga, and
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more. Antietam's added details are
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abundant, with the ability to plot
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and then take back moves, view
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line-of-sight for all units, achieve
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flanking fire in attack and defense,
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and have routed units rally and
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rejoin the battle.
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Playtesters went wild over Antietam.
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Over the course of several weeks, as
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many as three games were going on at
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once. The key to the game's success
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is its easy-to-use command-control
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system. Once you master the lengthy
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but well-written rules, every hour
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spent at the keyboard makes using the
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refined play system closer to second
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nature. This allows full
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concentration on the superb game.
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You're offered three levels of play
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and a host of options. They include
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one- or two-player modes, hidden
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movement, and gradual activation of
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the historically superior Union
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forces to balance play. More fine
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details can be found, and the
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computer opponents are challenging,
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too.
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Borrowed Time for ATARI ST
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Activision
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2350 Bayshore Parkway
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Mountain View, CA 94043
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(415) 960-0410
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PRICE: $30-$50
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RATINGS:
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Overall performance: Good
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Documentation: Average
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Play system: Good
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Graphics quality: Excellent
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Ease of use: Difficult
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Value for money: Good
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The city's a lonely place for a
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private eye, especially when you've
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got assorted torpedos out there
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waiting for the chance to air
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condition your skull. But if your
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job's solving crimes, the risks come
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with the territory.
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In this text/graphic detective tale,
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your moniker's Sam Harlow. From the
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moment your tired tootsies first
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appear on your desk, you're in for
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more trouble than a cat in a dog
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pound. You've got seven cases open,
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and if you're good, I mean real good,
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you just might be able to solve 'em
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all before some slug from a .45 buys
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you the farm.
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If you can solve all seven cases in
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24 hours, you're the leading gumshoe
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everyone thinks you are. But one
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false step and you're deader than
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last week's meatloaf. Try talking to
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people, following leads all over
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town.
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Collect evidence, no matter how
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unimportant it might seem. And soon
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the pieces will fall together. You'll
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need smarts to solve the mystery, and
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there's plenty of action here, too,
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so move fast, keep your eyes open,
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and don't forget to use a map.
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Super Boulder Dash
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Electronic Arts
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1820 Gateway Drive
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San Mateo, CA 94404
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(415) 571-7171
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PRICE: $15
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RATINGS:
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Overall performance: Excellent
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Documentation: Good
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Play system: Excellent
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Graphics quality: Good
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Ease of use: Average
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Value for money: Excellent
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Super Boulder Dash is the successor
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to Boulder Dash--one of the first
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(and still one of the best) strategy/
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arcade games. Both games are
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joystick -operated, multi-screen
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challenges of timing, hand-eye
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coordination, and strategic planning.
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Don't worry if you've never played
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the original because, as a bonus,
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it's included as side one of the
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disk. Novices are urged to complete
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side one before trying the new
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version, since the difficulty level
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of even the easiest Super screen
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requires an hour or more to crack.
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Practice is essential. Remember, in
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this type of game there's always a
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proper way to get through a screen.
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Generally speaking it will involve
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using elements which initially appear
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dangerous or unsolvable.
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We couldn't get some playtesters away
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from the game, even for snacks.
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Everyone agreed that Super Boulder
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Dash is one of the best strategy/
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arcade games for people at all levels
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of play ability.
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Xx FCC PROPOSAL
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Phone-Access Fee Is Proposed For
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Computers
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FCC Would Make Firms Pay to Link
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Networks To Local Phone Loops
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By:Bob Davis
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Staff Reporter of the Wall Street
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Journal
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WASHINGTON -- The FCC proposed a fee
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that would steeply increase
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telecommunications charges for many
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business and residential computer
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users.
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Under the FCC proposal, companies
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such as US Sprint Communications
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Co.'s Telenet subsidiary and
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McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s Tymnet unit
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would be charged as much as $5 an
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hour per user to hook up their
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computer communication networks to
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local telephone loops. Currently,
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computer networks are exempt from
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these so-called access charges. The
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charges would almost certainly be
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passed on to consumers and business
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customers.
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US Sprint is a joint venture of GTE
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Corp., of Stamford, Conn., and United
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Telecommunications Inc., Kansas City,
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Mo.
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Price increases would be a big blow
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for millions of personal-computer
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hobbyists who depend on computer
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networks to communicate cheaply with
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one another and to call up such
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information services as H&R Block
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Inc.'s CompuServe Inc. Currently,
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most consumers pay only a few dollars
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an hour in telephone costs.
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The proposal also would be a major
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setback for Telenet an Tymnet, which
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have attracted consumers and business
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customers with discount computer
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telecommunications rates. These
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companies rent private telephone
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lines, which previously haven't been
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subject to access charges, and spread
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the costs among thousands of computer
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users.
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Rate increases -will dry up the
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marketplace for new and innovative
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computer services,- said Joseph
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Markosi, counsel for Adapso, a trade
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association of computer service
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companies. -Prices will go through
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the roof.-
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He added that the proposal would
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improperly discriminate between
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computer network companies and other
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companies that maintain their own
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data networks. The later companies
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apparently wouldn't be charged access
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fees under the FCC proposal. Clark
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Woodford, a CompuServe executive vice
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president, said any access charges
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-will cause us to reassess our
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pricing structure.-
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The FCC voted 4-0 to seek comment on
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a plan to end the access-charge
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exemption beginning Jan. 1, 1988. The
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commissioners said the exemption
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amounted to a subsidy for the
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computer network companies that was
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being paid by business and
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residential telephone users. -We
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don't want the (telecommunications)
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network to evolve in response to
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various subsidies and anomalies,-
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said FCC Charman Dennis Patrick.
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Agency staffers and other said the
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Jan. 1 date wasn't firm. Page
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Montgomery, vice president of
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Economics & Technology Inc., a Boston
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telecommunications company, urged the
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agency to delay the decision for
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perhaps a year until the local phone
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companies change their networks to
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give competitors equal connections.
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Otherwise, the regional Bell
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companies, which are trying to enter
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the computerized-communications
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field, would have a big advantage.
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That's because the computer-service
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companies would be burdened with
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price increases and also wouldn't be
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able to offer hook-ups to the local
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telephone netowrk that are as good as
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those offered by the phone companies.
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-It would be a serious policy
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mistake- to end the exemption Jan. 1,
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1988, Mr. Montgomery said.
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The FCC said that access charges
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should decline over the next few
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years, by about a dollar per hour, as
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the agency increases residential
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charges for connecting to the
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telephone network. Much of the
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revenue from these assessments is
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used to reduce the access charges
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paid by telecommunications companies.
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The FCC proposal came as a surprise.
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In March, the agency decided that
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computer network companies should
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remain deregulated, which industry
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observers interpreted to mean that
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rates wouldn't increase. But now the
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FCC said that only purely private
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networks, operated by some big
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companies for their internal
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communications, would remain free of
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access charges.
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[Ed. See CompuServe's comment on this
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matter below.]
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Xx IBM EMULATOR UPDATE
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....Courtesy CompuServes Atari16....
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#: 66890 S5/Business Users 16-Jun-87
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Sb: Info on PC-Ditto
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Fm: David and Sandy Small 76606,666
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To: Pc-Ditters
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I spent awhile on the phone with
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Avant-Garde (like three hours)
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talking about PC-Ditto, so I thought
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I'd pass some info along, since
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there's a lot of curiousity about it.
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Jerry called me up from Comdex and
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said it was amazingly good. He'd done
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all the things like under the table
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for a PC or inside for an 8088; it's
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a software emulator, all right. Then,
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he got a bunch of his own software to
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test it on.. and lo and behold, it
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worked. He ran LapLink and DesqView
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on it, and while he says it's slow,
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it does work. Apparently the
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emulation is at the chip level.
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The guy who did it is an ex-IBM'er
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and sales type -- he was a pro
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salesman, believe me -- who's working
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on it with his wife. Mom and pop
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shop, so to speak. They've had lots
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of marketing offers and are very very
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busy. Don't expect to get through on
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the phone, it's always busy.
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My own experience with emulators is
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that you lose a 4X in clock speed
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with necessary overhead. So I'd
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expect about a 1-2 Mhz IBM out of
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this. The good thing is that I/O is
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done at 68000 speed, 8 Mhz, so it
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will only appear slow when you get
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computation-bound..like recalcing a
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spreadsheet. Burt just copying files,
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etc, it ought to scream along pretty
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nicely.
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The big thing that they told me was
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they wanted everyone to know they
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weren't connected at all with the
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MS-EM people. Apparently they had
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received mucho negative feedback on
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that other product.
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They've tested and certified it with
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lots of different IBM products; they
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went through a top-40 IBM product
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list and it ran all that stuff. The
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guy who's doing it sounds technically
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competent and is a good salesman.
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Caveat: this is all based on a
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telephone conversation, but he does
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know what he's doing with emulators,
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and it's for real.
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I'd suggest getting them online on
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CIS a.s.a.p. to answer questions. It
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sounds like it'll be a good product.
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-- Dave
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Xx HARDWARE UPDATE
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By:Ed Chop
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Did you know that Atari made two 1050
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drives? The newer drives are Tandon
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drives and the older drives are WST
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(World Storage Technologies). It
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seems that the WST drives are quieter
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and more reliable, but the belts are
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more expensive. The WST drives are
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generally not marked as to
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manufacturer, but they have NOVACON
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motors.
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What about these cheap SD drives you
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see advertised in Computer Shopper
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all the time? Can you use them on
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your Atari? Well....yes ....and no.
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You can't use them without modifying
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the drive or your computer.
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By adding a microprocessor and
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interface circuits to the drive you
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could probably get it to work with
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your Atari just like a 1050. But an
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easier way may be to take the
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mechanical drive assembly from the
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cheap drive and wire it to the 1050
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electronics. And why go through all
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this trouble? Because the cheap
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drive that you want to buy should be
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gear-driven. They are MUCH quieter
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and reliable. According to Bob
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Wooley, from the Compuserve Atari Sig
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Community, the drive must be one that
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draws less power than the original.
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Bob says that you may burn up your
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driver transistors, although he
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hasn't tried it himself, yet.
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Another way would be to add a PIO to
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your computer. That's a parallel I/O
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aadapter. Mmmmmmmm....sounds
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interesting, huh? Well it seems our
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friend Bob Wooley is working on such
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a project. The PIO board will plug
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into the PIO port in the XL with a
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24- cable. The information for
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building the PIO will be available on
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the Atari Sig when he has it
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completed. By adding the proper
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controller chip to the PIO, you can
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run the new drive with your Atari.
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But Bob has a better idea. How about
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a parallel 1050 drive that can load a
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disk in 10 seconds? Got your
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attention, huh? Well, he has an
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interface card planned that will plug
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into the PIO to run your 1050. That,
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too, will be available on the Atari
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Sig. We'll be looking forward to
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that hardware project.
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What's Atari doing to enhance their
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drives? Well, to start with, Bill
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Wilkinson is working on a new DOS
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called A-DOS. Although originally
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planned for the promised 3.5 inch
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disk, now scrapped, A-DOS is being
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designed for a new DD 5.25- drive
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from Atari.
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Xx ZMAG NEWSWIRE
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....June 15-June 19....
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COMMODORE SUES RATTIGAN
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Online Today on CompuServe reported
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that the turmoil at Commodore
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continues. The firm has filed a
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countersuit against Thomas J.
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Rattigan, the company's former
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president and chief executive
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officer.
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Rattigan left the company in April
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after the board suspended him and
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said it was considering dismissing
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him. He immediately filed a lawsuit
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against the company for $9 million in
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damages, charging his employment
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contract had been violated.
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In the counterclaim, filed in US
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District Court, Commodore said
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Rattigan failed on several occasions
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to carry out the decisions of the
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company's board of directors and that
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his actions had been costly to the
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company. The Associated Press reports
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that Commodore is seeking at least $5
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million in compensatory damages and
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as much as $13.7 million in punitive
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damages.
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COMPUSERVE BLASTS FCC PROPOSAL
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The following is the text of a
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statement released June 15th by
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CompuServe regarding the Federal
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Communications Commission proposal to
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lift the access charge exemption.
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The Federal Communications Commission
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proposed on June 10 to eliminate an
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exemption from certain telephone
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access charges for computer-based
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services and information retrieval
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systems. The commission created the
|
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exemption several years ago to allow
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computer services to adjust to new
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interstate access rules. The FCC
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voted 4-0 to seek comment on a plan
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to end the access charge exemption
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by Jan. 1, 1988.
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CompuServe opposes lifting the
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exemption and will, as it has in the
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past, work aggressively against any
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proposal designed to increase the
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cost of data network communications
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for its customers. The company will
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actively petition the FCC and make
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known its opposition to the proposal.
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Further, CompuServe will encourage
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its customers -- who will be most
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deeply affected by any new access
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charges -- to voice their opposition
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to the proposal by writing a letter
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to FCC Chairman Dennis Patrick and/or
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their local Congressional
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representatives.
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While the FCC proposal will raise
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costs for commercial customers of
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CompuServe's network and information
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services, it is the individual home
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subscriber that could be most
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affected by price hikes of 40 percent
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or more. Such a price increase could
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effectively place online information
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services out of the reach of many
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Americans and squelch the growth of a
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booming industry still in its
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infancy. Such consequences seem to
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fly in the face of the original
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intent of the access fee exemption:
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to protect and foster the growth of a
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relatively new and fragile industry.
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In light of the serious ramifications
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of the FCC proposal, several
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mitigating points should be made to
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clarify the situation:
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-:-Some media reports have stated
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that the access fees could be as
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much as 9 cents per minute
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($5.40 an hour), nearly doubling
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current per-hour charges of $6
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for access to the CompuServe
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Information Service. In fact,
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the access charges are likely to
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be far less, probably closer to
|
|
3 and a half cents per minute
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($2 an hour). CompuServe bases
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its estimation on the track
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record of other similar charges
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in the communications industry
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and upon information received
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directly from Bell Operating
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Companies.
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-:-There is likely to be a
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differentiation between -prime-
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daytime and -non-prime-
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nighttime rates, with lower
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access fees at night. Such a
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|
scenario would be better for
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home users who most frequently
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access information services at
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night.
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-:-Any access fees, regardless of
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how they are applied, would be
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levied on all competitors in the
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information industry.
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Some competitors who do not own their
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|
own networks, as CompuServe does,
|
|
would have even higher costs
|
|
associated with a lifting of the
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access charge exemption.
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Despite these ameliorating
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circumstances, CompuServe views any
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|
additional communications surcharges
|
|
with the utmost seriousness and will
|
|
continue its efforts to defeat the
|
|
implementation of such charges.
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It is CompuServe's opinion that the
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FCC's action is in conflict with the
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government's stated position of
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creating an atmosphere of free and
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|
fair competition in the
|
|
communications industry and of
|
|
devising ways to put information
|
|
services within the reach of all
|
|
Americans. The FCC's proposed
|
|
surcharge will only further
|
|
disadvantage the average home
|
|
subscriber and impede access to
|
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online information for millions of
|
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Americans.
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_____________________________________
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ATARI HOLDS COMPUTER EXPO
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Atari Corp. held a computer expo in
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Santa Clara, Calif., June 19 and 20.
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The show will featured about 80
|
|
companies demonstrating hardware and
|
|
software for desktop publishing, word
|
|
processing, database management,
|
|
graphics and spreadsheets. Atari
|
|
offered a 520ST personal computer as
|
|
a door prize.
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|
|
|
In addition, the exposition featured
|
|
a computer game tournament. According
|
|
to Atari, as many as 16 participants
|
|
at a time will got a chance to play
|
|
MIDImaze, a game created by Los
|
|
Angeles music software developer
|
|
Hybrid Arts. The tournament winner
|
|
received a Casio synthesizer.
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|
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The show, which was held at the Santa
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|
Clara Convention Center, was open to
|
|
the public between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
|
|
each day. Admission was $5 at the
|
|
door. Participating Atari user groups
|
|
and computer stores sold tickets for
|
|
$3.50. Children 12 and under
|
|
accompanied by an adult were admitted
|
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free.
|
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_____________________________________
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Xx ONLINE MAGAZINE NEWS
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_____________________________________
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By:Ron Kovacs
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As many of you know by now there are
|
|
other online publications available.
|
|
This week we highlight TeleTalk. The
|
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following text was taken from the
|
|
12th edition.
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*OnLineOnLineOnLineOnLineOnLineOnLin*
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*OnLine OnLine*
|
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*OnLine TeleTalk... OnLine*
|
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*OnLine OnLine*
|
|
*OnLine The BBSer and SysOp OnLine*
|
|
*OnLine RESOURCE! OnLine*
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|
*OnLine OnLine*
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*OnLineOnLineOnLineOnLineOnLineOnLin*
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*OnLineOnLineOnLineOnLineOnLineOnLin*
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* *
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* (C)opyright 1987 Public Domain *
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* Vol.2, Issue 12 Page 1 (of 2) *
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* *
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*************************************
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* -An AUTHORIZED T/TalkNET BBS!- *
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* John Peters - Bob Connors *
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|
* *
|
|
* T/TalkNET (303)392-6631 *
|
|
* The Graphics Dump *(201)469-0049 *
|
|
* The Data Store *(214)520-1412 *
|
|
* The Vault *(303)796-0539 *
|
|
* Modern Times *(414)384-1701 *
|
|
* Sorman (Sweden) 1-11-46-470-22183 *
|
|
* * = PC Pursuitable *
|
|
*************************************
|
|
INDEX
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=====================================
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LOG ON .................... [LOG]
|
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News from Sweden!
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DOCTOR BOB ................ [BOB]
|
|
Talks about Xmodem and -(non)
|
|
standard- communication protocols.
|
|
|
|
MESSAGE OF THE MONTH ...... [MSG]
|
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|
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FCC UPDATE ................ [FCC]
|
|
You can breathe easier, for awhile
|
|
anyway.
|
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|
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SYSOP'S CORNER ............ [COR]
|
|
First impressions DO count!
|
|
|
|
HOT PURSUIT! - Why is Xmodem
|
|
soooooo slow?
|
|
|
|
DEC WARS! - Part II.
|
|
|
|
BBS networking with the Apple //
|
|
computer.
|
|
|
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TeleTalk OnLine - Who, When and
|
|
Where.
|
|
|
|
In the weeks ahead we will arrange
|
|
publication of some articles which
|
|
are of interest to our readers.
|
|
_____________________________________
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|
Xx NEXT WEEK IN ZMAG
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|
_____________________________________
|
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+++ Part 2 of Antics CES Report
|
|
+++ Software Review by Steve Godun
|
|
+++ General Users Magazine Excerpts
|
|
+++ BBS Update
|
|
_____________________________________
|
|
ZMAGAZINE JUNE (c)1987 Ron Kovacs
|
|
June 22, 1987 Issue:58
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Reprint Permission Granted
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