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ZMAGAZINE 72 ////////////////////////
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September 25, 1987 (c)1987 Ron Kovacs
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Published/Edited by: Ron Kovacs
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Assistant Publishers: Ken Kirchner,
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Sue Perry, Rich Decowski
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ZMAG INFORMATION NETWORK (201)968-8148
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Xx ZMAG INDEX 72
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<*> Zmag Newswire
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<*> Atari News Update
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<*> User Group Focus
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<*> Technical Help...By Mr. Goodprobe
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<*> Letter to the Editor
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<*> News from Bruce Kennedy
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<*> Zmag Update
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Xx ZMAG NEWSWIRE
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From The Chicago Tribune/Courier News
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The US government is accusing a 17
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year old youth of breaking into AT&T
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computers across the nation and
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stealing sophisticated software worth
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thousands of dollars. We will supply
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more information should this develop.
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Are you a customer of WHITEHOUSE
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COMPUTER?? Zmag reader Shawn Harmon
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recently informed us about the rip-
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off of many by this firm. Current
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information tells us that the firm has
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closed anf filed bankruptcy.
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In the letter, there were over
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$200,000 in claims with only $20,000
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in assets.
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Whithouse Computer is located in
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Williamsport, PA.
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If you are one of the many waiting
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for goods or you have encountered a
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few problems, here is what you can
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do to hopefully get your monies back!
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contact:
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Bureau of Consumer Protection
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1-717-963-4913 Attn: Mr. McGowen
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Better Business Bureau
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Scranton, PA
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United States Postal Inspector
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Please write a letter to the B.C.P
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with a copy to the US Postal Inspector
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and the PA Better Business Bureau.
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Include your cancelled check with
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a full explanation of what you have
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done to retrieve your goods.
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Zmag will keep you informed as this
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story progresses.
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Xx ATARI NEWS UPDATE
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..From GEnie Services Atari RT..
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The XEP80 80-column adapters are in
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the Atari warehouse in Sunnyvale and
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are available for immediate shipment
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to dealers.
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The XEP80 plugs into the 2nd joystick
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port of any Atari 8-bit computer. Any
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video monitor can plug into the XEP80
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and deliver true 80-column text. An
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extra port on the XEP80 allows
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standard parallel printers (ST or IBM
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compatible) to plug directly into the
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8-bit Atari computers.
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The driver program for the XEP80 lets
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it take the place of the E: device.
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Software that is compatible with the
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E: device (such as Atari BASIC) will
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work in 80 columns without
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modification. Other software that
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writes directly to the screen
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(bypassing the OS) would need
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modification before working in 80
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columns.
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Atari is working on AtariWriter 80 and
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Silent Butler 80 to support the XEP80.
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Delivery dates on these products are
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not yet set.
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The XEP80 retails for $79.95.
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The new XE Game System has also
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arrived in Sunnyvale and is on its way
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to toy stores and other retailers in
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the USA.
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The XE Game System retails for
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$149.95. It comes with a
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sophisticated keyboard, a light gun,
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and three top games including Flight
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Simulator II, Missile Command, and Bug
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Hunt.
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Xx ________User Group Focus__________
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Brooklyn Atari Society for Information
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and Communication (B.A.S.I.C.)
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New York City's oldest Atari Computer
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User Group
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President - Peter J. Fazio
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Vice President - Larry Richards
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Secretary/Treasurer - K. Edward
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Bienkowski
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Newsletter Editors - Pete Fazio & Bill
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Kokoni
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BBS Sysops - Pete Fazio
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Larry Richards
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Bill Kokoni
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The Brooklyn Atari Society
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(B.A.S.I.C.) was founded in May of
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1982 by a group of Atari computer
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users who frequented a local computer
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store in Brooklyn. One of the sales
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people at the store came up with the
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idea of forming a user group and began
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to contact all the -regulars-. All of
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us were very enthusiastic about the
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idea and one of us, who ran a training
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school for electricians, offered his
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classroom as a meeting place.
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The first meeting of the new group was
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full of excitement, as the idea of a
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user group was new to most people at
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that time. Just the idea of a whole
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room full of people who were all
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interested in Atari computers was
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something wonderful. The meeting
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lasted long into the night as we all
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compared notes and got to know each
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other. This first meeting led to
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another and another and soon we were
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meeting regularly. After a few months
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we decided to open membership in the
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group to the public, but since the
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classroom we were meeting in was a
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little on the small side, we decided
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to find another meeting place.
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Luckily, one of the members belonged
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to the Knights of Columbus and
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arranged for us to meet there.
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After a meeting there to familiarize
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ourselves with the facilities, we held
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our first public meeting. Thanks to
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the people at the computer store, who
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publicized the group in the store,
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there were many new faces at the
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meeting and the group began to grow.
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At this time, I was elected to be the
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first president of the group, a
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position I continue to hold today
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(nobody else seems to want to do it!).
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Unfortunately, after about a year the
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member who belonged to the Knights of
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Columbus had to leave the group and we
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were once again forced to find a new
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meeting place. This time another
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member stepped forward and offered use
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of his company's meeting room and we
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once again had a new home. At that
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time we began to consider publishing a
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newsletter. The major problem with
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publishing a newsletter at that time
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was that we had no means of having it
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printed. Then a couple of members came
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up with the idea of publishing the
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newsletter on disk. Except for one
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commercial disk magazine, a disk-based
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user group newsletter was a new idea.
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Thus -The B.A.S.I.C. Bulletin- was
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born. The -Bulletin- grew in
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popularity and our subscription list
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expanded to include subscribers in
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several countries and two continents.
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Unfortunately, once again we were
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forced to find a new meeting place as
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the company which had the meeting room
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we were using moved away. Luckily, we
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were once again able to find a new
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location thanks to a couple of members
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who belonged to a model railroad club
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and arranged for us to share their
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club room. The new room was a little
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smaller than we would have liked, but
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we were now in 1984 and a low point in
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the history of Atari (just before Jack
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Tramiel bought the company from Warner
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Communications), so our membership was
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also at a low point. We continued
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meeting and publishing our newsdisk,
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and in June 1985 the Dateline BBS, our
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new user group BBS, went online.
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Starting on an 800 with 2 810 drives
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running FoReM 26M software, it quickly
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added an ATR8000 and grew to 4 double-
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sided, quad-density drives and BBCS
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software. About a month after Dateline
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went online the first 520STs appeared
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in the stores and many B.A.S.I.C.
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members, myself included, bought them.
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This posed a couple of problems, along
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with a number of benefits for the
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group. Because the new machines used a
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new and incompatible disk format we
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could no longer publish one newsdisk
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for all our members, and we could not
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publish two seperate disks. Also,
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because the BBS quickly began to
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support the new machines, we found
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that the once-huge storage capacity of
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the quad drives was suddenly filling
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with the much larger ST files, and we
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were rapidly running out of disk
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space. The ST also brought an influx
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of new members into the group, and
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while this was great for the group, it
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caused our meeting room to become very
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cramped very quickly.
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The BBCS (Bulletin Board Construction
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Set) software that was in use on the
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BBS at that time proved to be very
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buggy and was constantly the cause of
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problems with the system, so we
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decided to replace it. Since the ST
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content of the BBS had grown to the
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point where it was dominating the
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board, we decided that it was time for
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the Dateline BBS to switch to ST
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hardware, and in June 1986, almost
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exactly one year after it first went
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online, we switched to a 520ST and
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MichTron 1.8 BBS software. Shortly
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after that an Atari SH204 20 meg hard
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disk was added and the BBS really
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began to grow in both scope and
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popularity. Now running MichTron 2.10
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software and with 45 megs of online
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storage (thanks to the recent addition
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of an ICD ST hard drive), Dateline is
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one of the busiest (and best, in my
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humble opinion) Atari BBSs in the
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country (and now accessible through
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PC-Pursuit). The number for Dateline
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is 718-648-0947 (300/1200/2400 baud,
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24 hrs/7 days). For access through
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PC-Pursuit, call the 212 area and use
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ATDT17186480947 to have the PCP modem
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dial into the 718 area (the other half
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of New York City).
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While the BBS was growing, our
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newsletter was not. After one last
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disk issue (in which the newsdisk was
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retitled -Dateline: Atari- to match
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the BBS), we had to suspend
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publication while we decided how to
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best support both Atari computer
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lines. Membership in the group was
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becoming more and more ST-oriented,
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and the combination of a great desktop
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publishing program for the ST
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(Publishing Partner) and a member who
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is a professional printer made the
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choice very clear. The first printed
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issue of -Dateline: Atari- made its
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appearance this spring, and more are
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now following on a bi-monthly
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schedule.
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Thus with our successful BBS, our
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re-vitalized newsletter, and our
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excellent new meeting facility,
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B.A.S.I.C. (now in our sixth year)
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continues to be a leader on the New
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York City Atari user group scene.
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Peter J. Fazio,
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President
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For more information about B.A.S.I.C.
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contact:
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Brooklyn Atari Society
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c/o Peter J. Fazio
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2724 East 23rd Street
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Brooklyn, NY 11235
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718-646-6384 (voice - evenings)
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718-648-0947 (Dateline BBS)
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Xx TECHNICAL HELP
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The BBS Quest...The Search for More
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Drive Cables!
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by Mr.Goodprobe
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As we proceed into the first of
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hopefully many articles with hints,
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hardware projects, and modifications
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for your Atari equipment, let me serve
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notice that I need YOUR questions,
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advice, ideas, and projects in order
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to share them with others. I am an
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electronics technician of 15 years
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experience, and a father of three
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among other things. I am quick to
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reveal that fresh, new and exciting
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ideas can not proceed with consistent
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regularity from any single human
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being, no matter how intelligent,
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diligent, or perseverent! I need YOU
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so we can together provide the
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hardware information that the Atari
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community has so dearly lacked these
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past few years. I would encourage you
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to write up a short text file with
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your project, hardware modification,
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upgrade, question, idea or any related
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item, include you name and address so
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we can give proper credit, and upload
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that text file to the Zmag Information
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Network which can be reached at 201-
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968-9148 300/1200 baud 24 hours a day,
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or to my daily haunt at the Stairway
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to Heaven bbs which can be reached at
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216-784-0574 300/1200 baud 24 hours a
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day. If call the Stairway, the
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fearless SYSOP, Angel, will allow you
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to post your questions and the like in
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our hardware message base. If you are
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so kind as to send a text file, please
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leave me a note informing me of the
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upload and I will take it from there.
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Thanks!
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On the Atari computer bulletin board
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of today, it sometimes seems like
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things become a never-ending quest for
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more disk space to hold the ever
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expanding message bases and file
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transfer sections. I have quite
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objectively noticed that a large part
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of Atari bulletin boards have message
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bases that outdo most other brands of
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computers, as the users there have
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learned the value of the exchange of
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information which is at the heart of a
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great bbs! So...in order to fill the
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bill for more disk space, used disk
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drives and interfaces are purchased,
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printers are added to systems to keep
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better track of user logs, and you
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never seem to have enough cables!!!
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Ever noticed the drive cables you
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purchase are long enough to hang
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yourself on? Lets summarize how you
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can build the cables you need by
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yourself, and those that are neat and
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a pleasant addition to your system!
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You will first need to obtain the 13
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pin connectors which can be found at
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the end of your drive cables. A good
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source for this connector is a mail
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order company called MCM, but your
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local Atari computer store should also
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carry them as a matter of course, and
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I have seen them regularly for well
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under $2. And you will require one of
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your present drive cables. For every
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drive cable you lop in half, you end
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up with one extra. You will need 2
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connectors for each cable operation,
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one to go on the end of the cable you
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chopped in half, and one to go on
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other remaining end of your new cable.
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You will need these connectors in
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two's, if you wish one extra cable,
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you will require 2 connectors, if you
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wish to obtain two extra drive cables,
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then you will need 4 connectors and so
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forth. If you wish 2 drive cables of
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equal length, then simply use a pair
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of sharp wire snippers and cut the
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drive cable in half. If would like to
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have one cable short for neatness
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sake, and one long one, then simply
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cut according to your needs! You could
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also even cut the drive cable into 3
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short pieces, thus ending up with 3
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neat drive cables. If you do indeed
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choose this route, you will need 4
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connectors to complete your task.
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After cutting the cable in half, cut
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back the insulation on the connector
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free ends about 1 inch. And ideal tool
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to do this is an Ex-acto knife. Due to
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the fact that the wire coloring has
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been found to be different in many of
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these cables due to different
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manufacturers, the best way to match
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the wires is to take the cover off the
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end of the cable which has a connector
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on it, and match, wire by wire, the
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wires on the connectors end, to the
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wires on the end you are installing
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the connector on. Solder the little
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metal tab onto the stripped wire, and
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then insert it inside the connector
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housing so that the small metal ear
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locks the metal connector inside the
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housing. The numbering for the wires
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can be found on the outside of the
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housing.
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After installing the metal pins on all
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13 wires, and inserting them into the
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connector housing, simply snap the
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cover on and install the screws that
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hold on the sheath.
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Now you can enjoy the benefit of having extra cables on hand, the
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fulfillment of having done it
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yourself, and your BBS users will of
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course appreciate the extra disk
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space!
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Hardware Q&A Forum
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Each week we will try to answer a few
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users hardware questions. If the
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questions begin coming in at a quicker
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pace, I will make this a separate
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column!
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-Question- With the extremely large
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amount of software available for the
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Commodore C64, is it possible that an
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emulator can be written that would
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allow an Atari 8 bit computer to run
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those same programs?
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H. Gnagey
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Akron, Oh
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-Answer- Truly, due to the skill I
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have seen the programmers of today
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display, I imagine there is almost
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nothing that is completely impossible.
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But, due to the relatively slow speed
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of the Atari 8 bit clock, 1 Mhz
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roughly, such an emulator would not be
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practical. To put this in perspective,
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the Atari ST has a rough clock speed
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of 8 Mhz, and the emulator for the ST
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of the 1 Mhz Atari 8 bit computer runs
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at far less than half the speed of the
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actual computer it is imitating.
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Imagine how slow a 1 Mhz computer
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would be emulating another 1 Mhz
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computer, the C64!
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-Question- Where can a person find the
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best possible prices on computers,
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drives, disks and software?
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Patty O'Prian
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Akron, Oh
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-Answer- One of the best sources for
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those items is the Computer Shopper.
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This is a large (500+) publication
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which comes out monthly. It is quite
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informative, and contains articles for
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Atari 8 and 16 bit computers along
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with the other major brands.
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Distributors of computer hardware and
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software from across this fine land of
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ours place advertising here, and you
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can reap the benefits! Some of the
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most outstanding prices on the items
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you seek can be found here. One of the
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first bargains you will find therein
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is the price of the Computer Shopper
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itself..a real steal! You can
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subscribe to this fine tabloid, or
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pick it up at your local bookstore
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such as Walden or B. Dalton's. The
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only gripe I can offer about the
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shopper is the length it takes to read
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through it, many times I have taken an
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entire afternoon, paper and pen in
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hand, scouring it cover to cover for
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great bargains! Single issues are
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available for 3 dollars and under, or
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you can subscribe for a low yearly
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rate of $18. If you wish to subscribe
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the address is:
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Computer Shopper, Inc.
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407 S. Washington Ave.
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P.O. Box F
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Titusville, FL 32781
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(305) 269-3211
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Keep those Atari's hummin!
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-Mr. Goodprobe-
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(on lend from)
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Midtown TV
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(216)633-0997
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Atari 8/16 Repair/Sales
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Xx LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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Message: 57 (#971)
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Title : Booo!!
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Author: The Chef!
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To: Susan Perry
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First let me say that I have been a
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long time avid fan of Z-MAG in all its
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forms,and thanks for the new ST mag
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upload.
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But...what happened??!!!
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After reading the current 8 bit
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version, I must admit to being
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extremely dissapointed!! In my opinion
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it amounted to little more than an
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advertisement for CompuServe. The
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usual fare of informative articles and
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commentary was practically
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non-exsistent. This issue and the
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magazine of late seems to have
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degenerated to little more than a
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display of on-line directorys of CIS
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or menu screens of Carina.
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What has happened to the substance
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that Z-MAG has always contained? I
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hope that future issues will not be
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merely a down load of CIS help
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screens!
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Sincerly,
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A reader who wants his Z-MAG
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BACK!!!!!!!!
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Message: 68 (#1051) - Reply to #57
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Title : Booo!!
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Author: Susan Perry
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To: The Chef!
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Thanks for your comments concerning
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Zmag. We appreciate the feedback from
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our readers. Now to the business at
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hand...
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Ron Kovacs has made a commitment to
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the online services (CIS, GEnie,etc.)
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that Zmag will carry examples of the
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services they offer to Atari users.
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So, in light of this, you will be
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seeing more articles of this type in
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future issues of Zmag.
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You asked about substance. Some weeks
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are good, others...well. Ron cannot
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just take an article from a magazine,
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such as Antic or Analog, and reprint
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it. Reprint permission must be
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obtained, which is no easy feat. Nor
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can we use database articles from the
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online services without prior
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permission. This cuts down on the
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informative articles that Zmag readers
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are looking for. And the time it
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takes to receive permission often
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makes the article out of date. Zmag's
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goal is to bring our readers the most
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up to date information possible.
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But Zmag readers can help. We welcome
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the submission of 'original' articles.
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Did you attend a computer show or
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Atari Fest? How about that fantastic
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new piece of software you just bought?
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Do you belong to a users group? Well,
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submit a review or article about it.
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Zmag is not the editors and publishers
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...it is you, the Atari user. And
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without your help the articles with
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substance will be fewer and fewer.
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Ok, enough of my long winded reply (I
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know, typical woman!). Zmag
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Information Network can be reached at
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201-968-8148, 300/1200, 24 hours or by
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mail at P.O. Box 74, Middlesex NJ
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08846. Ron welcomes feedback from
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Zmag readers. Again, thanks for your
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comments!
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Sue
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EDITOR: Chef, I apologize for the
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recent lack of interesting material.
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However, I am trying to let all the
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readers know what is available thru
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their modems. I know last weeks issue
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was a bit much, But it did give the
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many not on CIS the opportunity to
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see what they are missing.
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Future issues will contain info from
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CIS, GEnie and others, but it will
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not be as winded as last weeks issue.
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In response to the Carina Menus, That
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article came right from the CarinaII
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demo uploaded to the BBS. I extracted
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the best I felt and published it in
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two parts. The reason I published it
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was to give equal time to Carina as
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we did for Oasis. When EXPRESS is
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released, I will also allow space for
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information.
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It is pretty much the way Sue Perry
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explained it. But I can tell you that
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there are a few big changes on the
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horizon, and I am sure you will be
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more than happy with them, (I Hope)...
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Thanks for reading Zmag and ST-Report.
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If you have further commentary, Please
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submit them, How else am I to know
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how I am doing?? Thanks again!
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Ron Kovacs
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Editor/Publisher
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______________________________________
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Xx PAY SERVICES Part 2
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______________________________________
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HOW TO TALK TO ANOTHER FORUM USER
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-REAL TIME-
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For those of you that are having
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trouble or are unfamiliar with the
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commands that send those one-line
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messages that ring the console bell
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(or buzzer) and look like:
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;;S_ATAR: - Job 120: Meet me in
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Conference?
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The following will give detailed
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step-by-step instructions on how to
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use this very powerful command, known
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as SENd.
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First, to see which users are in the
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Forum at any given time, type UST at
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any command prompt. The list of users
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that will appear will be formatted
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like:
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Job User ID Node Prgm.
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13 76703,4363 T02LIU SIG
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16 76703,254 T12NYY ACCESS
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19 70206,1130 T04LAN SIG
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This tells you that the user with
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User ID (PPN) 76703,4363 is in this
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SIG, has JOB number 13, and is
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connected thru phone node link T02
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from Long Island. If the User ID is
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unfamiliar, the WHO command at the
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MAIN MENU -Enter choice !- or
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-Function:- prompt will allow you to
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look up any PPN that is a member of
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the Forum.
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You may then send a one-line message
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by typing (at any command prompt) the
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following command:
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SEN JOB ## mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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or
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SEN ## mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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where mmmmmmmm is a message up to 79
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characters in length, and ##
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representing the job number (NOT USER
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ID!) of the person you wish to
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contact.
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If you see a message that says -? That
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job is busy!- or -Can't SENd to that
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job!-, the system was unable to SENd
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to that job due to one of four
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reasons: The User has left the Forum
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or logged off, or may be in the
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process of DOWnloading or UPLoading a
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file, and can't be interrupted.
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If you don't get an immediate reply,
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it may be the receipient is in the
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process of replying to a message so
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please exercise a little patience.
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______________________________________
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Xx NEWS FROM BRUCE KENNEDY
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#: 196624 S13/Peripherals 22-Sep-87
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Sb: ZNEWS
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Fm: BRUCE KENNEDY 72327,1500
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To: RON KOVACS 71777,2140 (X)
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Here's the latest for US. Who know how
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to hack computers. Let's hear it from
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our friends at CLAUG in Chicago
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According to Jon Berry in the
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September 21 issue of ADWEEK, the
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people from Microsoft have announced a
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joint partnership with Amdek in
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Chicago. Amdek has a CD ROM laserdrive
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which reads a 550 megabyte capacity CD
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ROM which contains The American
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Heritage Dictionary, The World
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Almanac, The Chicago Manual of Style,
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Roget's Thesaurus, Bartlett's
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Quotations. Now read that into your
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memory and smoke it! It's called
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Bookshelf, and is the first major,
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widely distributed offering in the new
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technology. Hats off again to Bill
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Gates, and the innovative people from
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Amdek.
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Don't forget...Amdek were the people
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who brought Atari the first IBM type
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plastic case diskettes. We didn't
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support them, so they soon liquidated
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a very nice double drive for our
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machines. Let's look at this system as
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a hacking community, come up with a
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way to use it, and support this fine
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partnership in leading edge
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technology.
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If it's good, the ST can use it!
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Let'S hear from you. Network and
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Report!
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BEKennedy from RIACE for ZMAG
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______________________________________
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Xx Zmag Update
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Due to space problems, the Machine
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Language reprints have been condensed
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into one issue. This special edition
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will become available this week on the
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BBS.
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We have also updated the Zmag Index
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issue. Volume 2 will be available
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this week. Index will contain the
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indexes of Zmag issues 52 thru 71.
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We are gathering BBS numbers for our
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end of year issue. Please let me
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know if your system carry's Zmag. Send
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email to 71777,2140 on CompuServe,
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R.KOVACS on Genie, or on the Lions Den
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BBS in Chicago at (312)690-3724, or
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the XBN BBS in Mass at (617)559-6844
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or also on the Zmag BBS (201)968-8148.
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Due date for information is November
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1, 1987.
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Do you prefer Zmag in 40 columns or
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in 80 column?? The choice is yours!
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Please let us know what you prefer,
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we have received requests for changing
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over to 80 column. Please let me know
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your prefrence!!!
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______________________________________
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ZMAGAZINE 72 September 25, 1987
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Please contribute news and articles!
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(c)1987 Ron Kovacs/Syndicate Services
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