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No New! Messages
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=*= FIDO ECHO MESSAGES MENU =*=
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<1> Scan \
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<2> Read > OS9 Echo mail
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<3> Leave /
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<4> Scan \
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<5> Read > CoCo Echo mail
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<6> Leave /
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<7> Scan \
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<8> Read > CoCo_Club Echo mail
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<9> Leave /
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<A> Scan \
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<B> Read > MM1_TECH Echo Mail
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<C> Leave /
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<G>o back to Main Menu
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<P>revious Menu (Messages Menu)
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[59] Command >>> N
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Public Message
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Message # 4548 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Christian Miller
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From : Ron Bull
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Subject : MORE 3.5" ?'S...
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Date : 94/10/13 00:30:00
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Try getting ahold of Rick Ulland of CoNect. He did this very thing with mine.
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And it works great! He can be contacted at rickuland@delphi.com or you could
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call my BBS and place your request there. He set up a shopping area on my BBS
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for CoNect. He is hard to get ahold of thru phoneline, but does check his
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mail regularly! My BBS is The Bull's Barn BBS at (717) 834-4071.
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--- FLAME v1.1/b
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* Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101)
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Public Message
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Message # 4549 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Christian Miller
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From : Ron Bull
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Subject : SURVEY
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Date : 94/10/13 00:36:00
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I DON'T have any of your programs. I didn't know they were available. I'd be
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interested in a copy of all of them. Since you are into programming, how
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about coming up with one uder OS-9 L2 that will allow formatting a disk
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outside of system RAM? Or how about one that looks and acts like QDOS3 (for
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the MS-DOS people)? There is a need for one like NORTON UTILITIES program
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called OPTIMIZE (I think they use the command defrag). I have more ideas if
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you are interested. I can be contacted at The Bull's Barn BBS (717) 834-4071
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or here or on INTERNET as ron.bull@paonline.com give me a call!
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--- FLAME v1.1/b
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* Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101)
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Public Message
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Message # 4551 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Dave Kelly
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From : Warren Hrach
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Subject : Re: mail retriever
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Date : 94/10/14 12:11:02
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Previous Reply is Message 4525
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On Monday, October 10th, 1994 - Dave Kelly wrote:
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WH> -Warren
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DK> No, I'm not. I'm getting lazy. I want my computer to do
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DK> everything for me now. I would like to have my mail waiting for me
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DK> when I arise in the morning. With that in mind I would like to write
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DK> a program that would call a BBS during the night and download my
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DK> mail.
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DK> After looking at the source code for UUCPBB, it appears that this
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DK> is what I would like to have for FIDO.
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DK> Where do I find the standard/parameters for FIDO?
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DK> Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator.
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Dave,
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What you are looking for is exactly what RiBBS does. You do not
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have to have running all the time. You can run as a point and start up
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in late evening, edit your events file with a poll to your hub and get
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your mail. RiBBS tosses the mail and awaits you to just logon and read
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the mail. You can select which echos you want and it all is automatic.
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You can even run on 2 dsdd 40 trk drives with enough msg base size
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to handle a couple days mail on the OS9, COCO, COCO_CLUB, RIBBS and
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MM1_TECH echos. The events file can automatically do the polling and
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msg base purging so you only have to boot up your system, and even can
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have it bootup and start RiBBS from your startup file.
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With either RiBBS or UUCP you have to find a cooperative hub or
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host. Usually easier getting a Fido hub to run as a point than finding
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a UUCP host. Most Internet/Usenet hosts now will charge a fee for
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access.
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For more info on getting 'RiBBS to Go' (runs on 2 DSDD 40 trk
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drives) log on my BBS and download from the RiBBS support section
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'ribbs2go.txt'.
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As for the Fido standards you should be able to download from most
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any Fido BBS. Look for FTS 0001 or something. I don't carry them.
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-Warren Hrach, RiBBS, RiBBS_OSK beta sysop, MM/1 Sales Rep. MM1_TECH
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moderator (warren@ocnbeach.jd.com)
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--- RiBBS v2.10
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* Origin: Ocean Beach BBS 619-224-4878 (1:202/745)
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Public Message
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Message # 4566 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Barry Bond
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From : Lute Mullenix
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Subject : HMMM.
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Date : 94/10/13 18:39:00
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Barry,
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No, I haven't recieved any of the private messages. So it may not be a bad
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idea to set up an account on your machine. Once again, if I use it wisely, it
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shouldn't cost all that much.
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No, for the most part, my FIDO access is a local call. It's just as I
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mentioned, it seems some of the mail got lost along the way, and I found some
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on ACS, that I didn't recieve here. But still no private stuff, so I have not
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seen what you have found to date.
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I have also found that I can have internet access on the local board now, it
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would cost me $25 a year, do you think it would be worth it? It would open a
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new door, but I guess I really have no idea what it'
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s for.
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Well, let's try setting up an account on your machine, then we can take it
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from there. I could still do most of the chit chat on here, and just use the
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account for heavy duty stuff.
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>Lute<
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--- Maximus/2 2.01wb
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* Origin: LakeCity BBS * V.FC/4 Gigs * 605-886-0849 * (1:288/19)
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Public Message
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Message # 4573 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : All
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From : David Wordell
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Subject : Unfragment
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Date : 94/10/13 19:19:00
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I have a friend who is lucky enough to be working in the
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world of OS-9 as his means of making a living. He is in the
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relatively new world of CD-I development. He called me today
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and asked if I knew of any utility in the OS-9/68000 world
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that would unfragment a hard drive. The only utility of that
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kind that I had heard of was repack by Burke & Burke, which,
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is of course, for the OS-9/6809/6309 world. Has someone
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written such a utility for the 68000 machines yet? If you
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know of anything, please reply to this message. I myself am
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also interested as I have a PT68K4, aka System IV. Thanks to
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all who respond.
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/ ) /
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/ / __. , __o __/
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/__/_(_/|_\/ <__(_/_
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--- FMail 0.98
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* Origin: Com Port 1 - DFW Amateur Radio BBS (214) 226-1181 (1:124/7009)
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Public Message
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Message # 4592 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Christian Miller
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From : Newton White
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Subject : Survey
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Date : 94/10/13 6:31:00
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> I've been looking through my old programs for B09, and
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> was wondering
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> the following...
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> 1) How many of you have/are using either TEd v1.0 or
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> v1.1?
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> 2) Who has used and enjoyed my conversion of Star
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> Wars?
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> 3) How many of you have/are using TagEdit?
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> 4) I have a few more programs I was considering
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> uploading. Would any
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> of these be of any use to you?
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Where might we find these Christian?
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Newton
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* Origin: ACS BBS USR DS HST 404-636-2991 (1:133/510)
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Public Message
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Message # 4593 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Allen Huffman
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From : Terry Dodson
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Subject : Re: CoCo Photos
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Date : 94/10/13 15:04:00
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Good to hear from you Allen .
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I'll wait patiently , BTW ----- I've talked to Ken Fish about the video
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I shot of the Fest, We (I) was wondering if you had a CoCo VCR tape
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editor system so we can blend (edit) 3ea. tapes that I took of the Fest
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and make a ,single,better tape with ,CoCo Titler, color header,
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credits, and the like.
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Rick Cooper (CFDM) is also interested. I also need footage
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of other seminars besides Kevin Darling's.
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Can you help us ?
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Terry D.
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(ACS/member)
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--- QuickBBS 2.76a
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* Origin: ACS Inc. BBS 404-636-2991 (1:133/510)
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Public Message
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Message # 4608 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : DAVE KELLY
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From : William Barnes
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Subject : HD install
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Date : 94/10/14 02:45:00
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DK> HHHHHEEEEEELLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DK> I own a Disto Super Controler II. I have bought a Disto
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DK> H Disk Super Adapter. Now I am confused as how to hook
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DK> Secondly, I have a SeaGate ST-225. The documentation for
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DK> the adapter tells me that I can use this hard drive as a SASI.
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DK> input on the hard drive. The drive has a 34 and a 20 contact
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DK> edge card connecter plus a 2 row 16 pin male conecter.
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Dave,
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the SASI (now out-dated) and SCSI (presently "new and improved
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SCSI-2") both use 50 pin cables, unless you use a MAC SCSI connector,
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which is a DB-25 connector, <Gee, I'm goood at run:on sentences>. the
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ST225 will need another card added to work with what you got, I *THINK*
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if it was a ST225a, there would have been no problem. I Dunno if anybody
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still has those adaptec boards still available here or not.
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-Later!
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-SS-
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--- GEcho 1.00
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* Scribe 4.0 * I can't believe I wrote the whole thing.
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* Origin: Wilderness BBS * (517)839-0385 * (1:239/1010)
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Public Message
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Message # 4611 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Tom Moon
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From : Christian Miller
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Subject : Re: test
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Date : 94/10/13 18:06:00
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TM> Thanks again I think? :^)
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Welcome...I think... :)
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I was just wondering... How much CoCo support do you have down there?
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Are there user groups, etc? Or, are you a loner out there?
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Christian Miller
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* Scribe 4.0 * Practice safe sex...get married and be faithful OR
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ABSTAIN!
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--- GEcho 1.00
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* Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263)
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Public Message
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Message # 4612 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Charles Scanlon
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From : Christian Miller
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Subject : HD & other ?'s
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Date : 94/10/13 18:06:00
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CS> a larger plug. So the power plug just plugs straight in with no
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CS> mod. BUT the
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CS> problem of plugging the 3.5" data lines into the cable remains. YOu
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CS> need a
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CS> short adapter printed circuit board available at some computer
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CS> shows, etc.
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CS> which you can plug the drive into and then into the plug on the
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CS> cable.
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Confused. I thought that the 5.25" drives and the 3.5" drives were
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direct swap in & outs.
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CS> But you're talking about an external IBM 3.5 drive. Do you plan to
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CS> remove it
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CS> from it'S present case and power supply?
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I didn't want to. I wanted to just sit it on top of my 502's, and hook
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it into my present controller. Probs? Suggestions?
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Christian Miller
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* Scribe 4.0 * Our God is an AWESOME God.
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--- GEcho 1.00
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* Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263)
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Public Message
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Message # 4613 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Colin Mckay
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From : Christian Miller
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Subject : Atlanta 94 Fest Report
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Date : 94/10/13 18:06:00
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CM> Part 1 of 2
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Uh, Colin, there wasn't a part 2 posted!
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Christian Miller
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* Scribe 4.0 * Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind...
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--- GEcho 1.00
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* Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263)
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Public Message
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Message # 4614 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : George Porterfield
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From : Steve Ostrom
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Subject : FROM OS9 (DYNASTAR) TO DO
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Date : 94/10/13 23:34:00
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In a message of <12 Oct 94 20:08:00>, George Porterfield (1:270/101) writes:
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GP=> I am trying to help my kid's school with the setup of a new
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GP=> Novell local area network.
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What kind of an os9 system is being removed?
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I know on the coco I can read/write dos disks - but I am unsure if I can
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read/write standard OS9 disks.
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The copy command could be used to redirect your files thru the serial port.
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Is this OS9 system multiuser? that is with several terminals attached?
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Are the connections serial?
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I have never used Dynastar - so cant help with the conversion.
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Btw what is being done with the old system once the Lan is up and running?
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To bad you couldnt plug a lan card in it and use it as a server until the
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files were transferred.
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--- QM v1.00
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* Origin: Hardware Haven * Steve's Point * (1:163/307.6)
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Public Message
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Message # 4617 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Duane Martz
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From : Ron Bull
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Subject : COCO STUFF FOR SALE.
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Date : 94/10/14 00:31:00
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You might want to take another look at your asking prices. These things are
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selling cheaper than that, I know that it's heartbreaking, I paid full price
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for all of my stuff and I have 7 CoCo 3 systems!
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--- FLAME v1.1/b
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* Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101)
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Public Message
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Message # 4630 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Christian Miller
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From : Dean Maidens
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Subject : Survey
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Date : 94/10/14 02:50:00
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Just thought I'd let ya know that I have played the Star Wars that you speak
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of. It is kinda fun, and sorta different everytime so keeps the interest up. I
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also know, that their are two others that use this very computer that have
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played that game. Good work! Also, the Wheel of Fortune you spoke of would be
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of interest to me. Let me know what comes of what. TTYL!
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--- FMail 0.90
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* Origin: Port City BBS (1:239/2000)
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Public Message
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Message # 4637 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Terry Dodson
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From : Jerry Michelson
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Subject : Re: Re- CoCo Photosend
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Date : 94/10/14 22:11:00
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>>On 10 Oct 94, Terry Dodson said to Christopher Mayeux something like:
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>> I just dropped in to post a message that was messed up by
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>> me a few weeks ago. I tried sending a request to "ALL" before the
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>> Atlanta CoCoFesT Oct.1 & 2. Needles to say it got screwed up an I've
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>> been getting responses such as yours ever since. I hope maybe the CoCo
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Terry...no one was upset or offended by that message at all. To be
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honest, I've had some weird things happening recently to some of the
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mail coming into the bbs (characters being re-translated, crunched, or
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otherwise changed). It's amazing that any of this Fido stuff works at
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all :)! You also have to realize that on Fido, when you post any
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message you may get replies for weeks afterwards (for whatever reason).
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I asked where to buy VCR belts once in the ELECTRONICS conference about
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a month ago, and am STILL getting responses. It's sort of like
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throwning a rock into a pond and watching the ripples go everywhere. I
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just wanted you to know that my original "empty message" post to you
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was not meant to be mean-spirited at all if it was taken that way.
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--- AcBBS V3.0 Beta
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* Origin: Carolina Connection Coco/OS9 Support (803) 243-4061 (1:3639/53.1)
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Public Message
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Message # 4646 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Charles Scanlon
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From : Aron Hsiao
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Subject : Re: OSK OS-9/68000
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Date : 94/10/16 12:48:00
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On Thursday, October 6th, 1994 - Charles Scanlon wrote:
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CS> Cool! Just slip it in the disk drive? Does that mean MAC OS could run
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CS> the MM1 and CoCo4 machines?
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Nope, sorry... You see, each machine has to have the versionn OSk for
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that machine. i.e. Amiga has OSk for the Amiga, etc. You can't run the
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Amiga OSk package on an MM/1, though the OS9 commands are the same, and
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so forth.
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So, you conceivably could run MacFinder on another machine, but it would
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have to be ported and recompiled to run on an MM/1, and it would
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probably then be called MM/1Finder
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(.)
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- A. Hsiao
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--- RiBBS v2.10
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* Origin: Coco Exchange, San Diego, Ca 619 272-3643 (1:202/744)
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Public Message
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Message # 4647 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Damian Trybus
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From : Aron Hsiao
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Subject : Re: It can happen to you!!!
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Date : 94/10/16 12:58:00
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On Saturday, October 8th, 1994 - Damian Trybus wrote:
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DT> installed my Puppo interface inside the Tandy 1000 case
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DT> where I have all my coco stuff (HD 2 floppies etc)
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DT> So anyway I had to install that puppo interface more of black smith
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DT> work than electronics. I had FDOS 2.2 installed in my floppy
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DT> controller (OWL) which kicks directly to OS9 at cold start. The
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DT> puppo interface has that menu popping up which kicks you to OS9 if
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DT> you do not specify otherwise. So I had to remove that FDOS 2.2 from
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Hold down the space bar when you turn the power on. This makes the
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Puppo ROM forego the beginning menu and lets other ROMs coexist with it
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peacefully.
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- A. Hsiao
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--- RiBBS v2.10
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* Origin: Coco Exchange, San Diego, Ca 619 272-3643 (1:202/744)
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Public Message
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Message # 4648 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Steve Ostrom
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From : Aron Hsiao
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Subject : Re: Hd Install
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Date : 94/10/16 13:00:00
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On Wednesday, October 12th, 1994 - Steve Ostrom wrote:
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SO> The st225 has a mfm interface - not scsi or sasi. You can get an
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SO> adapter card which will allow mfm drives on a scsi controller. The
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SO> card I have here is the same size as a 5.25 drive.
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SO> I dint know why your docs would say an st225 was sasi - perhaps it
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SO> says st225n?
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SO> but I havent ever heard of that model ( n at the end of a seagate
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SO> model indicates scsi a indicates ide r indictes rll
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As a PC parts dealer, I can authoratatively tell you that there is an
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ST-225N which is as noisy as the ST225 MFM drive. The only advantage to
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the 225N is that it was not so widely produced and sold (smile)...
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- A. Hsiao
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--- RiBBS v2.10
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* Origin: Coco Exchange, San Diego, Ca 619 272-3643 (1:202/744)
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Public Message
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Message # 4649 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : George Porterfield
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From : Aron Hsiao
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Subject : Re: FROM OS9 (DYNASTAR) TO DO
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Date : 94/10/16 13:03:00
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On Wednesday, October 12th, 1994 - George Porterfield wrote:
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GP> I am trying to help my kid's school with the setup of a new Novell
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GP> local area network. As a part of this effort, we need to transfer a
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GP> couple hundred DynaStar word processing files from an old OS9 system
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GP> to WordPerfect for either MS-DOS or MS-Windows. I am completely
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GP> unfamiliar with the OS9 operating system, so I need some help.
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GP> I believe the OS9 computer does have a serial port available since
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GP> the secretary has a cable that was used once before to transfer some
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GP> files. (Of course she doesn't know how that was done.)
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GP> Ideally, I would like to transfer the files (in batch if possible)
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GP> via the serial port to an MS-DOS computer complete with word
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GP> processing formatting codes. Then hopefully, some one could tell me
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GP> a way to convert these from DynaStar format to WordPerfect. (I've
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GP> already checked the WP Convert program-- no mention of DynaStar.)
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GP> As an alternative, we can transfer the files as straight ASCII files
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GP> and reformat them completely in WP.
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GP> I am open to all suggestions and help. Thanks.
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I'm going to try and describe to you the best way to do this. It
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requires the following: 1) that you have a hardware serial port for your
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OS9 machine (one that has a REAL DB-25 connector like the one on your
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PC), and 2) that you have a terminal program and a modem for your OS9
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machine.
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If you have a terminal program for the OS9 machine, you can do the
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following: using the term program, FTP to chestnut.cs.wisc.edu (if you
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have internet access), or dial my BBS at 1-801-973-2614 and download a
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file called "rzsz324.lzh". You'll also probably need to get "unlzh7.ar"
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and "ar20" to de-ar unlzh7 to unlzh rzsz324.lzh (are you sufficiently
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confused?)...
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Now, you've got RZSZ which is Zmodem, full implementation. Connect the
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serial port through a null modem to the PC, and issue the following
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command under OS9: "xmode /t2 bau=7". If this returns an error
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(indicating that you have ACIAPAK instead of SACIA), type the following:
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"xmode /t2 baud=7". Now, fire up Telix or PCPlus or whatever you're
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using on the PC, and set for 19200 baud, and start your Zmodem receive.
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Then, issue the following command from your OS9 machine (uzing the sz
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you've just downloaded): "sz file1.dynastar file2.dynastar etc.dynastar
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</t2" (replacing those filenames with the files you wish to send). If
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the OS9 machine has shellplus, you can use wildcards in place of the
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filenames (":sz * </t2" will send everything in the directory).
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IF a) you don't have a hardware port for your OS9 machine, b) you don't
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have a terminal for your OS9 machine, or c) you're completely lost, then
|
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you'd better buy one of the programs designed for transferring OS9 files
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to MS-DOS machines. Beware, though, that they are expensive (I seem to
|
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remember about $59.95 or so), and may not be available any longer.
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If you need more in-depth help, send me e-mail at
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perfekt@plato.eng.utah.edu, or call my BBS at 1-801-973-2614.
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(end long winded and messssssssy message)
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- A. Hsiao
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--- RiBBS v2.10
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* Origin: Coco Exchange, San Diego, Ca 619 272-3643 (1:202/744)
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Public Message
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Message # 4650 *OS9 ECHO*
|
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To : David Wordell
|
|
From : Aron Hsiao
|
|
Subject : Re: Unfragment
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|
Date : 94/10/16 13:18:00
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On Thursday, October 13th, 1994 - David Wordell wrote:
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DW> I have a friend who is lucky enough to be working in the
|
|
DW> world of OS-9 as his means of making a living. He is in the
|
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DW> relatively new world of CD-I development. He called me today
|
|
DW> and asked if I knew of any utility in the OS-9/68000 world
|
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DW> that would unfragment a hard drive. The only utility of that
|
|
DW> kind that I had heard of was repack by Burke & Burke, which,
|
|
DW> is of course, for the OS-9/6809/6309 world. Has someone
|
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DW> written such a utility for the 68000 machines yet? If you
|
|
DW> know of anything, please reply to this message. I myself am
|
|
DW> also interested as I have a PT68K4, aka System IV. Thanks to
|
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DW> all who respond.
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|
|
|
Remember "White's Speedisk", a quaint little OS9/6809 defragmentor?
|
|
Well, I understand that a full-length, big-feature version is available
|
|
for OS9/68000 that really /is/ useful (the OS9/6809 version would run
|
|
out of memory on an average floppy disk, not to even begin about hard
|
|
disks).
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|
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Contact the author of the original version, I'm thinking it's probably
|
|
the same guy...
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- A. Hsiao
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--- RiBBS v2.10
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* Origin: Coco Exchange, San Diego, Ca 619 272-3643 (1:202/744)
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Public Message
|
|
Message # 4651 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Colin Mckay
|
|
From : David Wordell
|
|
Subject : SpeedDisk
|
|
Date : 94/10/14 19:41:00
|
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|
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Colin,
|
|
Do you happen to carry a program called SpeedDisk?
|
|
I believe it was written by Brian White and is intended
|
|
to allow unfragmenting a disk, among other things. If
|
|
not, do you know who carries it? Thanks.
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|
__
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/ ) /
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/ / __. , __o __/
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/__/_(_/|_\/ <__(_/_
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--- FMail 0.98
|
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* Origin: Com Port 1 - DFW Amateur Radio BBS (214) 226-1181 (1:124/7009)
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Public Message
|
|
Message # 4657 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : All
|
|
From : Tony O'Bryan
|
|
Subject : Util9
|
|
Date : 94/10/15 09:59:00
|
|
|
|
Util9, my OS-9 to MS-DOS disk transfer utility for MS-DOS machines, now
|
|
successfully transfers files from OS-9 to MS-DOS as well as transferring
|
|
entire OS-9 disks (of any size your MS-DOS machine supports) to MS-DOS hard
|
|
drives. Someone once asked me whether I could write the program to transfer
|
|
OS-9 hard drives connected to an MS-DOS machine. Though I don't have an OS-9
|
|
hard drive installed in my system to test, I believe Util9 WILL work perfectly
|
|
well with OS-9 hard drives installed in an MS-DOS machine.
|
|
|
|
--- GEcho 1.10+
|
|
* Origin: The CoCoNut Palms Hotel Spfld. Mo. (417)887-6048 (1:284/3)
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Public Message
|
|
Message # 4662 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : all
|
|
From : Tim Jones
|
|
Subject : Re: MM/1 sound players on chestn
|
|
Date : 94/10/14 08:36:00
|
|
|
|
Hello all!
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|
|
|
I just wanted to let you know that I have this new version here and I will be
|
|
sending it out through the OCN to replace the previous one.
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|
Tim
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|
======================================================
|
|
* Original in area NETMAIL
|
|
* Original from freeside!13.75.DECNET.CERN.CH!kotan 1:382/87
|
|
* Original to Tim Jones 1:382/107
|
|
* Original about "Re: MM/1 sound players on chestnut"
|
|
======================================================
|
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|
|
Apparently-to: freeside!IMA.infomail.com!tjones
|
|
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 07:47:23 +0100
|
|
From: freeside!13.75.DECNET.CERN.CH!kotanski
|
|
|
|
After positive reactions to my uploading of MM/1 sound playing programs
|
|
on chestnut, I decided to make one improvement. I added a short program
|
|
called "play". It reads the first four bytes of a file and tries to identify
|
|
it as a sound file. If successful, it forks one of the four programs (auplay,
|
|
iffplay, vocplay or wavplay) to play it.
|
|
I replaced the file mm1_play.lzh in the incoming directory on chestnut with
|
|
the new version. The size of the old compressed file was 8093 bytes, the size
|
|
of the new one is 8783 bytes. Nothing else is changed (except for a few words
|
|
on the documentation sheet).
|
|
|
|
Andrzej Kotanski
|
|
(kotanski@zeus.desy.de)
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|
|
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-!- GIGO+ sn 136 at ima vsn 0.99 pl3
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|
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==================== End of Forward ====================
|
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|
|
--- FleetStreet 0.95wb
|
|
* Origin: Trial Run - Austin, Tx - [512-280-6578] (1:382/107)
|
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|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4663 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : David Wordell
|
|
From : Tim Jones
|
|
Subject : Unfragment
|
|
Date : 94/10/15 16:08:00
|
|
|
|
Hello David!
|
|
|
|
Replying to a message of David Wordell to All:
|
|
|
|
DW> I have a friend who is lucky enough to be working in the
|
|
DW> world of OS-9 as his means of making a living. He is in the
|
|
DW> relatively new world of CD-I development. He called me today
|
|
DW> and asked if I knew of any utility in the OS-9/68000 world
|
|
DW> that would unfragment a hard drive. The only utility of that
|
|
DW> kind that I had heard of was repack by Burke & Burke, which,
|
|
DW> is of course, for the OS-9/6809/6309 world. Has someone
|
|
DW> written such a utility for the 68000 machines yet? If you
|
|
DW> know of anything, please reply to this message. I myself am
|
|
DW> also interested as I have a PT68K4, aka System IV. Thanks to
|
|
|
|
Brian White had written one which was marketed by Dirt Cheap Software (Mark
|
|
Griffith's old outfit). I don't know who carries it now. I was supposed to be
|
|
very good and priced much lower than other commercial products. Hopefully
|
|
someone else can give you mre info...
|
|
|
|
Later,
|
|
Tim!
|
|
tjones@ima.infomail.com
|
|
|
|
--- FleetStreet 0.95wb
|
|
* Origin: Trial Run - Austin, Tx - [512-280-6578] (1:382/107)
|
|
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|
|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4668 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Ron Bull
|
|
From : Christian Miller
|
|
Subject : MORE 3.5" ?'S...
|
|
Date : 94/10/15 16:35:00
|
|
|
|
RB> Try getting ahold of Rick Ulland of CoNect. He did this very thing
|
|
|
|
I've already contacted him on Internet, just waiting for a reply,
|
|
thanks!
|
|
|
|
Christian Miller
|
|
---
|
|
* Scribe 4.0 * Can't RUN out... Luke 9:25
|
|
--- GEcho 1.00
|
|
* Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4669 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Ron Bull
|
|
From : Christian Miller
|
|
Subject : SURVEY
|
|
Date : 94/10/15 16:35:00
|
|
|
|
RB> I DON'T have any of your programs. I didn't know they were
|
|
RB> available. I'd be
|
|
RB> interested in a copy of all of them. Since you are into
|
|
|
|
Well, I uploaded most, if not all to Delphi around a year or so ago. I
|
|
have also seen some of them on Carolina Connection, and Darkside BBS.
|
|
If you want to send me a disk, I'll be glad to copy them for you, and
|
|
send them back. Also, ask Rick Ulland if he has any of them. He was
|
|
helping me develop TEd, as well as Randy K. Wilson.
|
|
|
|
RB> about coming up with one uder OS-9 L2 that will allow formatting a
|
|
RB> disk
|
|
RB> outside of system RAM? Or how about one that looks and acts like
|
|
|
|
I'm not into the too techy stuff. All my programs are Pack B09 code.
|
|
|
|
RB> QDOS3 (for
|
|
RB> the MS-DOS people)? There is a need for one like NORTON UTILITIES
|
|
RB> program
|
|
RB> called OPTIMIZE (I think they use the command defrag). I have more
|
|
|
|
Sorry, I have no idea what these programs look/act like. The only time
|
|
I'm in front of an MS-DOS machine is when I'm wandering around Wal-Mart
|
|
or Curcuit City. And, usually those are running a demo.
|
|
|
|
RB> ideas if
|
|
RB> you are interested. I can be contacted at The Bull's Barn BBS
|
|
RB> (717) 834-4071
|
|
RB> or here or on INTERNET as ron.bull@paonline.com give me a call!
|
|
|
|
Sure I'm interested. I'd just like more indepth descriptions of what
|
|
you'd want them to do. Like I said, I'm not in front of MS-DOGs
|
|
anymore. I'll try to contact you on InterNet through the FidoNet gate
|
|
way, or maybe I'll just NetMail 'ya, that seems more reliable to me.
|
|
|
|
Christian Miller
|
|
---
|
|
* Scribe 4.0 * King of kings & Lord of lords.
|
|
--- GEcho 1.00
|
|
* Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4670 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Duane Martz
|
|
From : Christian Miller
|
|
Subject : Coco Stuff for sale.
|
|
Date : 94/10/15 16:35:00
|
|
|
|
DM> 1-Motherboard, Power supply, 512K upgrade kit. $125.00
|
|
DM> 2-CM-8 Monitor $125.00
|
|
DM> 3-RS232 Pak $40.00
|
|
DM> 4-Speech & sound Pak $30.00
|
|
DM> 5-HI rez joystik interface $20.00
|
|
DM> 6-Interface thing to make Cocomax word processer, graphics thing
|
|
DM> work. $30.00
|
|
DM> 7-10 assorted plug in game paks, $20.00 for all <instructions incl>
|
|
DM> 8-Stereo sound Pak $30.00
|
|
|
|
Just my personal opinion, but I think your prices are pretty steep.
|
|
I've seen RS-Pak going for $10, game paks $5, hi-rez interface $5,
|
|
monitors $50, and CoCo about $50 as well.
|
|
|
|
Christian Miller
|
|
---
|
|
* Scribe 4.0 * America: One Nation Under God? - Gang Violence
|
|
--- GEcho 1.00
|
|
* Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4671 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Newton White
|
|
From : Christian Miller
|
|
Subject : Survey
|
|
Date : 94/10/15 16:35:00
|
|
|
|
NW> Where might we find these Christian?
|
|
|
|
Most definatly on Delphi. Also, I've at least seen my Star Wars
|
|
program on Carolina Connection. If not, just send me a disk, and I'll
|
|
put them on it, and send it back.
|
|
|
|
Christian Miller
|
|
---
|
|
* Scribe 4.0 * Destination: Heaven
|
|
--- GEcho 1.00
|
|
* Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4690 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Dave Kelly
|
|
From : Lucien Jacques
|
|
Subject : Re: mail retriever
|
|
Date : 94/10/14 05:29:00
|
|
|
|
Dave Kelly said to Warren Hrach on 10-10-94
|
|
|
|
DK> WH> Are you running a QWK or ATP thingy now?
|
|
DK> WH> -Warren
|
|
DK> No, I'm not. I'm getting lazy. I want my computer to do
|
|
DK> everything for me now. I would like to have my mail waiting for me
|
|
DK> when I arise in the morning. With that in mind I would like to write
|
|
DK> a program that would call a BBS during the night and download my
|
|
DK> mail.
|
|
All those things can be done under OS9. Only thing is not to do them at
|
|
The same time the BBS is doing it's mail run. I know of two computer
|
|
monitors that would do the trick for you. TTYL
|
|
|
|
|
|
* MicroQwk #150000 *
|
|
|
|
--- Maximus/2 2.01wb
|
|
* Origin: Starship Heart of Gold - Edmonton, AB [403]489-1735 (1:342/42)
|
|
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|
|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4691 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Ron Bull
|
|
From : Lucien Jacques
|
|
Subject : Coco Stuff For Sale.
|
|
Date : 94/10/15 07:24:00
|
|
|
|
Ron Bull said to Duane Martz on 10-14-94
|
|
|
|
RB> You might take another look at your asking prices.
|
|
RB> These things are cheaper than that, I know
|
|
RB> it's heartbreaking, I paid full price for my stuff
|
|
RB> and have 7 CoCo 3 !
|
|
RB>
|
|
|
|
I'd love to have that many Coco 3 computers. I could start a
|
|
nice little business then. So what do you do with all the Computers?
|
|
I went and bought up a bunch of parts myself from a business at
|
|
went out of the computer Business. I still 40 drives and a few cards
|
|
left as well as some other items. Sure would love to trade it all off.
|
|
|
|
|
|
* MicroQwk #150000 *
|
|
|
|
--- Maximus/2 2.01wb
|
|
* Origin: Starship Heart of Gold - Edmonton, AB [403]489-1735 (1:342/42)
|
|
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|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4701 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Colin Mckay
|
|
From : David Wordell
|
|
Subject : SpeedDisk
|
|
Date : 94/10/16 21:50:00
|
|
|
|
> Give me a call on Tuesday night, and I will have a firm
|
|
> price by then.
|
|
|
|
Collin,
|
|
Okay, will do. Thanks.
|
|
__
|
|
/ ) /
|
|
/ / __. , __o __/
|
|
/__/_(_/|_\/ <__(_/_
|
|
|
|
--- FMail 0.98
|
|
* Origin: Com Port 1 - DFW Amateur Radio BBS (214) 226-1181 (1:124/7009)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4702 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Tim Jones
|
|
From : David Wordell
|
|
Subject : Unfragment
|
|
Date : 94/10/16 21:51:00
|
|
|
|
> Hopefully someone else can give you mre info...
|
|
|
|
Tim,
|
|
Thanks, Colin McKay has already told me that he
|
|
carries it. I appreciate the reply.
|
|
__
|
|
/ ) /
|
|
/ / __. , __o __/
|
|
/__/_(_/|_\/ <__(_/_
|
|
|
|
--- FMail 0.98
|
|
* Origin: Com Port 1 - DFW Amateur Radio BBS (214) 226-1181 (1:124/7009)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4708 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Willard Roelofs
|
|
From : Mike Guzzi
|
|
Subject : Re: IN/OUT Temp
|
|
Date : 94/10/15 22:17:00
|
|
|
|
On Monday, October 10th, 1994 - Willard Roelofs wrote:
|
|
|
|
WR> I noticed your conversation with Alan Dages re: indoor/outdoor digital
|
|
WR> thermometer and the need for a CoCo program for the calculations.
|
|
WR> I purchased the so-called "CC-THERM 2". It came with a BASIC program,
|
|
WR> displaying readings in both Fahrenheit and Centigrade. Since it's only
|
|
WR> 24 lines, I could place it here. Want it?
|
|
|
|
yes, but i would need the diagram of the device plugged into the
|
|
joystick port and duplicate it.
|
|
|
|
--- RiBBS v2.10
|
|
* Origin: The Astral Plane BBS 717-586-2771 NE PA's CoCo Support (1:268/342)
|
|
|
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|
|
Public Message
|
|
Message # 4709 *OS9 ECHO*
|
|
To : Alan Dages
|
|
From : Mike Guzzi
|
|
Subject : Re: IN/OUT Temp
|
|
Date : 94/10/15 22:18:00
|
|
|
|
On Sunday, October 9th, 1994 - Alan Dages wrote:
|
|
|
|
> i never got that magazine, if you could photocopy that article I would
|
|
> appreciate it
|
|
AD> Send me your address again, I lost it! BTW did you ever get that
|
|
AD> small P/C board switcher power supply I sent you?
|
|
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Mike Guzzi
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PO Box 561
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Waverly PA 18471
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I don't remember getting a switching power supply from you
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Public Message
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Message # 4721 *OS9 ECHO*
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To : Dave Kelly
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From : William Chapple
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Subject : C Programming
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Date : 94/10/18 18:41:26
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Hi! To start off, I would like to say thankyou for your willingness to
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help me out with this!
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Okay, as you asked, here is some of the code:
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Here are the 'include statements' in the program:
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#define MAIN 1
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#include <stdio.h>
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#include <getopt.h> <-- This is my mystery file here <G>!
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#include <errno.h>
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#include <mouse.h>
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#include <signal.h>
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#include <strings.h>
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#include <buffs.h>
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#include <wind.h>
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#include <stdmenu.h> <-- I was missing this till I dloaded CGFX5.
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#include "mymenu.h" <-- Came with the archive.
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And here is some of the code where it uses getopt:
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main<argc, argv>
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int argc;
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char *argv[];
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{
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int option;
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int cksig(); /* declare intercept function */
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while ((option = getopt(argc, argv, "?")) !=EOF) {
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switch (tolower(option)) {
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case '?':
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printf ("\nSkel - A skeleton program to further the\n");
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printf (" development of window applications\n);
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printf (" for the MM/1 computer\n\n");
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exit (0);
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}
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}
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There you have it. Any info on it would make me very happy <G>!
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If you can't find out anything about it, is there other source that is
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available to the public to handle window applications functions?
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William Chapple
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