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274 lines
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PROTOCOL: ALT
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COMPRESSION: NONE
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CONNECT 2400/ARQ
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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
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10/20/92 05:56:24
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Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U
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?^U
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?^U
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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss
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Logging name to disk...
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You are caller 227684; next msg =45816; 383 active msgs.
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Prev. call 10/17/92 @ 00:43, next msg was 45806
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Recording logon for next time.
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Use FULL? to check assignments
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?^U
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?xxxxx
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"Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K t
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>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-10 log,ward c;or;*;short
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LOG. 16
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KILLED. 28
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SUMMARY. 26
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10/20/92,05:56:27,227684,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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45806 10/17/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => MURRAY ARNOW: "R/CD ROMS"
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45807 10/17/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => BOB SULLIVAN: "R/LIMITING SOFTWARE APPLICATIO"
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45808 10/17/92 CYRUS PATEL => ALL: "TAPE BACKUP"
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45809 10/18/92 ANDY SHAPIRO => ALL: "PRINTER SHARING"
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45810 10/18/92 ERIC BOHLMAN => WARD: "SPEED"
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45811 10/18/92 ERIC BOHLMAN => ANDY SHAPIRO: "PRINTER SHARING"
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45812 10/18/92 MURRAY ARNOW => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/CD ROMS"
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45813 10/18/92 BILL MATTSON => ALL: "OS2 BETA TESTERS"
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45814 10/19/92 DENNIS STAHL => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/DATA ON FM SUBCARRIER?"
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45815 10/19/92 MICHAEL SHARTIAG => WARD: "LINE NOISE."
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- End of summary -
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Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.
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Msg 45806 is 10 line(s) on 10/17/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to MURRAY ARNOW re: R/CD ROMS
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This isn't going to be all that practical an answer, but I'll mention
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a few things:
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1. you might want to consider whether you want to use a SCSI adapter for
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other things, too - such as hard drive, or whether a dedicated CD-only
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adapter will do the job;
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2. Consider whether audio is necessary; whether you need internal or
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external; whether it needs to work under OS/2; whether you're going to
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use it with multi-media applications (may require a relatively fast drive)
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or just with "software".
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A few things to think about, anyway.
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Msg 45807 is 01 line(s) on 10/17/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to BOB SULLIVAN re: R/LIMITING SOFTWARE APPLICATIO
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When did your Sci Am arrive? Mine hasn't shown up yet.
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Msg 45808 is 11 line(s) on 10/17/92 from CYRUS PATEL
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to ALL re: TAPE BACKUP
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I'm looking for an external tape backup for my PC's (8088 through 80486's)
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and I was looking at the CMS (Colorado Memory Systems) Jumbo Trakker (sp?)
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250 meg tape backup unit. That's the one that connects through the
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parallel port on the PC, and was wondering if anyone has any experience
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with one. I also understand that Irwin makes one (I believe that
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Elek-Tec sells it).
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I am looking at the externals with the parallel port connection, cuz,
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I don't want to have to buy extra boards or hook it up to the
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floppy/hard drive cable. Are there any other's available out there?
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Any info would be appreciated.
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Msg 45809 is 24 line(s) on 10/18/92 from ANDY SHAPIRO
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to ALL re: PRINTER SHARING
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OK, Ward, here's some traffice for you:
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I work in a small academic department, out here in the Eastern Wastelands.
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Recently, a new department member was moved to a tenure track position,
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and, as part of the package, was given a nice new PC (his pick - he got
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a 33MHz 386DX). Everyone else in the office cheered, because they figgered
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this meant that Mr. X would no longer hog the Zenith 386sx that's driving
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the local HP LaserJet III. But nooooooooooooo. He put an ancient 8086
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in his office, moved the PC to HOME, and now sits on the Zenith as before,
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because it's more convenient (his term).
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SO. I need to come up with a CHEAP way to share that printer out. He
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hardly ever prints on it, so it won't bother him, but there are six of
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us who need access fairly regularly (seven, if we count the Zenith).
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The printer is no more than 50' away from any of the PCs in question.
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What's the best CHEAP way to do this? Speed is a little bit of a
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question, but printer buffers are cheap, and they could sit in between
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the sharing unit and the PCs without much trouble. The main thing is to
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make this CHEAP (again) and TRANSPARENT (ideally, no software should be
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involved - just a box hanging off the parallel port.
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SO - short of doing in Mr. X, what's the best way to deal with this
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problem? (The department has ruled out doing him in as too expensive).
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Msg 45810 is 01 line(s) on 10/18/92 from ERIC BOHLMAN
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to WARD re: SPEED
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9600 is working fine for me here.
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Msg 45811 is 10 line(s) on 10/18/92 from ERIC BOHLMAN
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to ANDY SHAPIRO re: PRINTER SHARING
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How about an A/B switch box (manual) at the printer, and a cable booster
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on Mr. X's machine if it's more than 15 feet or so from the printer. Ideally,
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locate the switch box at the printer, not at Mr. X's desk.
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If you go to an auto-switching unit, you may have some hassles you haven't
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anticipated, like either having different people's outputs interleaved,
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or else long timeouts to prevent that. You don't want hassles like A
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downloading some soft fonts, printing a document, B then downloading his
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soft fonts and printing, then A coming back and printing on the assumption
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that his soft fonts are still there.
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Msg 45812 is 06 line(s) on 10/18/92 from MURRAY ARNOW
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/CD ROMS
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The major reason for my interest in CD ROMs is that it appears that they
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are going to become a mode (maybe dominant) of software distribution.
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Borland is now offering their software on CD ROM. My concern for the
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moment is what will become the standard format. Can CD players read
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different formats through software changes, or will the formats be
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integrated into the hardware?
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Msg 45813 is 05 line(s) on 10/18/92 from BILL MATTSON
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to ALL re: OS2 BETA TESTERS
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Any OS2 32-Bit Graphics Engine beta testers out there? I'm one. Are you
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one, too? If you are.'fess up, and we can trade lies and share the
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thrills of reformatting large disk volumes for the sake of the jolly
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blue giant, and personal curiosity, too, of course. Or, if you're not,
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I'll still talk (sic) to you, anyhow.
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Msg 45814 is 06 line(s) on 10/19/92 from DENNIS STAHL
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/DATA ON FM SUBCARRIER?
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Data was (is ?) available on some FM subcarriers. About two years ago
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financial market information was transmitted to handheld units. The cost
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of the service was in the 200 to 1000 dollar/month range. I believe Lotus
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even sold a "board" for the PC bus to receive the data and software to
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get it into the spreadsheet. Believe it even ran in background.
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. about all I recall.
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Msg 45815 is 05 line(s) on 10/19/92 from MICHAEL SHARTIAG
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to WARD re: LINE NOISE.
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Ward,
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Since CBBShadcome back up I have been getting noise on the
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line . It seems to be receive noise only as everything
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I type appears to be received properly. ANy ideas ??
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Has anyhting hardware wise changed ??
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dup. chars.
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>Function:?type-30 log,ward c
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10/17/92,00:43:05,227645,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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E#45806,
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E#45807,4
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10/17/92,16:09:12,227646,2,GAYLAND BLOETHE,,14
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10/17/92,16:38:25,227647,2,GAYLAND BLOETHE,,10
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]Thank you for getting the board up. You are apparently using amulti-
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tasking operating system judging from the response. Sometimes
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the text scolls too fast for it to be stopped. It would be nice if
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the board could be put into a mode to send a screenfull of text at
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a time with the opportunity to flag messages when listing messages.
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Thank you for providing this service for so long.
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GAYLAND BLOETHE,
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10/17/92,17:19:09,227648,2,DAVID JOHNSON,,2
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10/17/92,17:39:49,227649,2,CYRUS PATEL,,
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E#45808,15
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10/17/92,18:52:48,227650,2,CHARLIE KESTNER,,
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10/17/92,20:15:22,227651,9,DAVID GIBBS,,3
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10/17/92,20:37:11,227652,1,ANDREA ROBINSON,Chicago,
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10/18/92,02:11:52,227653,2,BILL MATTSON,,1
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10/18/92,02:51:29,227654,2,CYRUS PATEL,,0
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10/18/92,07:54:02,227655,2,BRUCE LORD,Chicago/ IL,9
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10/18/92,08:26:56,227656,2,BRUCE LORD,,5
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10/18/92,11:16:23,227657,9,IAN GOTLIB,evanston/ il,2
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10/18/92,14:45:12,227658,2,CHARLIE KESTNER,,16
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10/18/92,16:11:39,227659,1,ANDY SHAPIRO,,
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E#45809,11
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10/18/92,17:00:10,227660,1,FRANK KELLY,des plaines/ il,8
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10/18/92,17:12:28,227661,1,STAN NIZIOLEK,Chicago,14
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10/18/92,18:16:31,227662,9,ERIC BOHLMAN,,
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E#45810,
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E#45811,9
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10/18/92,19:03:09,227663,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,
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E#45812,8
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10/18/92,20:11:17,227664,2,KEVIN KEYSER,,4
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10/18/92,20:26:11,227665,1,KURT WILDE,glenview/ illinois,16
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10/18/92,21:20:24,227666,1,BERNARD GOLDLUST,,1
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10/18/92,21:36:24,227667,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,10
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]Ward; It's nice to see the board back up and running. Considering
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I've been calling here since I was a freshman in High School 14 years
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ago, its great to see you back!
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LARRY GLASSMAN,
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10/18/92,21:53:24,227668,2,BILL MATTSON,,
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E#45813,7
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10/19/92,00:47:12,227669,2,RANDY IMAGEN,,7
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10/19/92,00:56:05,227670,1,ROY LIPSCOMB,,1
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10/19/92,06:40:07,227671,2,PETE JONES,,2
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10/19/92,07:31:36,227672,1,AL HIGGINS,,5
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10/19/92,07:59:48,227673,2,DENNIS STAHL,,
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E#45814,15
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10/19/92,09:28:28,227674,2,DANIEL TOWNSEND,chicago,24
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10/19/92,09:50:19,227675,2,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,,
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E#45815,5
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10/19/92,12:34:36,227676,2,DAVID JOHNSON,,4
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10/19/92,12:38:46,227677,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
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10/19/92,13:29:49,227678,2,DANIEL TOWNSEND,,11
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10/19/92,15:43:42,227679,2,DENNIS STAHL,,0
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10/19/92,16:06:57,227680,2,BOBBIE LEON,morton grove/ il,2
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10/19/92,21:44:51,227681,2,ALEX GOLDSTEIN,,3
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10/19/92,23:28:34,227682,2,MARK FABER,,4
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10/20/92,03:55:45,227683,9,ERIC BOHLMAN,,1
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10/20/92,05:56:27,227684,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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>Function:?
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PROTOCOL: ALT
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COMPRESSION: NONE
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CONNECT 2400/ARQ
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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
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10/20/92 21:51:18
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Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U
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?^U
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?^U
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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss
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Logging name to disk...
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You are caller 227692; next msg =45821; 370 active msgs.
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Prev. call 10/20/92 @ 05:56, next msg was 45816
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Recording logon for next time.
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Use FULL? to check assignments
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?^U
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?xxxxx
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"Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K t
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>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-10 log,ward c;or;*;short
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LOG. 17
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KILLED. 53
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SUMMARY. 24
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10/20/92,05:56:27,227684,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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E#45816,
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E#45817,
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E#45818,
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E#45819,
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E#45820,
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10/20/92,12:47:37,227685,1,ANDY SHAPIRO,,3
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10/20/92,13:28:42,227686,2,FRANK JONES,,5
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10/20/92,14:32:10,227687,2,STEVE RYAN,,2
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10/20/92,15:34:51,227688,2,DON PIVEN,,3
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10/20/92,15:43:17,227689,1,KIMBERT CATTENHEAD,South Holland/ IL,2
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10/20/92,17:59:05,227690,2,MICHAEL SCHNEIDER,,2
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10/20/92,21:43:43,227691,1,BERNARD GOLDLUST,,3
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10/20/92,21:51:22,227692,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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45816 10/20/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => GAYLAND BLOETHE: "CBBS"
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45817 10/20/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => CYRUS PATEL: "R/TAPE BACKUP"
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45818 10/20/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ANDY SHAPIRO: "R/PRINTER SHARING"
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45819 10/20/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => MURRAY ARNOW: "R/CD ROMS"
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45820 10/20/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => BILL MATTSON: "R/OS2 BETA TESTERS"
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- End of summary -
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Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.
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dup. chars.
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>Function:? |