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Volume 3, Number 12 24 March 1986
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Editor in Chief: Thom Henderson
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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FidoNews is the official newsletter of the International FidoNet
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Association, and is published weekly by SEAdog Leader, node 1/1.
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You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission standards are contained in the file
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FNEWSART.DOC, available from node 1/1.
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Disclaimer or don't-blame-us:
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The contents of the articles contained here are not our
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responsibility, nor do we necessarily agree with them.
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Everything here is subject to debate.
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL
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A BBs User's View
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2. ARTICLES
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Astronomy SIG
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Four Hard Questions About Hard Disks
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DoubleDOS, Multiple Users, and Fido
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Sysop's Spare Time
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In Memory of the Challenger
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Response to Neal Curtain's article on Software Support
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"Stone Wall" is on the air!
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3. COLUMNS
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Notes from Abroad
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4. WANTED
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Help! I need YOU!!
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5. FOR SALE
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Entertainment Software for your PC!
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Public Domain Software Library Sale!!
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Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops
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6. NOTICES
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Major BUG in Fido 11u!
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The Interrupt Stack
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EDITORIAL
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Fred Berger
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1/11/86
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A BBs User's View
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As a subscriber to numerous BB systems I feel it's time for
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me to speak my piece on open and closed systems.
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This week three of the BBs I call were crashed by people who
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have nothing better to do with their time than hurt other people.
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It's a real pain in the you know what to us, the honest sub-
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scribers, to have to fill out new user forms every few weeks on
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systems that have been crashed. We moan and groan, and have
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numerous discussions via the message systems about how
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troublesome all of this is to us.
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That was my attitude until this week, when I decided to look
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into the idea of opening my own BB. I picked up some decent BB
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software and started rummaging through the documentation. Golly
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whiz, there sure is a lot to do being a Sysop. Not only do you
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have to make up menus, dedicate a computer or two to the system,
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buy phone lines and modems, but then after all that guess what,
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you've got to spend time every day to maintain the stupid thing!
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You get to edit files, write bulletins, maintain numerous file
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directories, come up with great ideas to keep your users happy,
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and all of this is in most cases is done for free. Sounds like
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real fun doesn't it?
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After you've committed to having all that fun, you spend
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weeks obtaining great files for all your wonderful users to
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download, because if you wait for them to give you a file or two
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you'll be out of business. After all, subscribers (or should I
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more properly call them users?) haven't the time or patience in
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most cases to watch their computers sitting there uploading. It
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takes too much time to upload. Downloading is much, much faster.
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2400, 1200, 300 or whatever baud is a lot faster going downhill.
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Any idiot knows that !!
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So now you've got the system up and working. You're proud
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of your work, open the system to the general public. You're high
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minded (or stupid and naive) enough to think that everyone is
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like you. But you're wrong! Two weeks after the system is up
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some yokel (I have other descriptions) puts a little worm in your
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system, and guess what you get....CRASH!
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Now you're in real trouble. No don't worry, Mr. or Mrs.
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Sysop, it's not the crashed system that's the problem, it's the
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wonderful users who'll be upset when they have to re-register.
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They may never call back again! Wouldn't that be horrible.
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You'd have all that equipment just sitting around doing nothing.
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So the good old Sysop decides to redo everything, and the BB is
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back in business.
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Fidonews Page 2 24 Mar 1986
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After studying the situation, I've become convinced that
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most Sysops must be nuts. Who would do all that for free? In
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talking to these lunatics I've found most to be dedicated to the
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idea of providing a useful service. One asked what I thought of
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him closing the system to the general public. My answer was
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simple. I am a subscriber to both free and pay BBs. I find that
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closed systems are generally better. Why? Simple, a person
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values something he or she purchases. Are these lunatics
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(Sysops) providing us with a service? To me the answer is a
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definite YES! Most of the programs I use were free because I
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obtained them via BBs. Much of the really important knowledge
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I've acquired has been found in BB message bases. And you know
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what? Most of those above mentioned "mosts", if you understand
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my meaning, came from pay services.
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I don't want to single any system out, but for the sake of
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example I'm going to use Gene Plantz's system. He charges an
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outrageous rate of a whole $15.00 per year for membership. When
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I enter a message on his system, asking for advice, help, or
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whatever, I can count on getting several answers within hours at
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most from other subscribers. I can enter the same message on a
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free system, and guaranteed, I usually get zip.
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The point I'm trying to make is maybe we get what we pay
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for. Maybe free systems are becoming a thing of the past. Maybe
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that's the way it should be. I'd never NOT pay for Gene's
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service. It's been too valuable to me.
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After looking into becoming the Sysop of my own system,
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estimating the time and effort that would have to be expended,
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I've decided that I really couldn't afford to give it away. I'd
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have to charge a fee. So why shouldn't others do the same?
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I'm really not trying to be a preacher. I'm just trying to
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put things in perspective. Could we users become Sysops and give
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our services away? The answer is no, because if it was yes,
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everyone would be running a BB.
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How much is a fair price? I don't know, I'm god-like, not
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God. How much does a movie cost? A matinee is pretty cheap,
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providing you don't have kids who want candy or pop. Should I be
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willing to pay the cost of a couple of movie tickets for a year's
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membership on a BB? Maybe.
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What should I do if the Sysop decides to keep his service
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free? Maybe I should participate in discussions, upload a file
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or two once in a while? Not a bad idea. Maybe I should express
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my views, share some of my knowledge, contribute for the benefit
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of the service, and the other subscribers. Who knows, if others
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did the same, we all might learn a little something. Possible?
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I'm done spouting off now. I was really aggravated after
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talking to a couple of these Sysops in person, learning of their
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honest desire to provide a service, and then calling back to see
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that their systems had been crashed. I guess you can't
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understand the other guy's point of view until you know him.
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In conclusion, whether the service is free or whether
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Fidonews Page 3 24 Mar 1986
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there's a small charge isn't the issue. I've learned that what
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really motivates the person who becomes a Sysop is the desire to
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help. What turns most of them on is not money, but an active
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group of subscribers sharing not only programs, but knowledge.
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These services are of great value to us, the computer user
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community, and should treated with some degree of respect. The
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hackers and slackers have to be eliminated one way or another,
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and if fees help, well that's the way it is. It doesn't do us
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any good to have free service if the service isn't available
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because it's been crashed.
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I'd like to thank several subscribers on Plantz's board for
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knowledge they've shared with me, but guess what, I don't even
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remember their names. It doesn't matter though, because I've
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given help where I could, and I'm sure those people don't
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remember mine either. The whole point is that all of us have
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gained.
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Thanks for your kind indulgence.
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Fidonews Page 4 24 Mar 1986
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ARTICLES
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Arlen Fletcher
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Fido 138/0
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Is There Anybody Out There?
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Somewhere out there among all you Fidonews readers there must be
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some amateur astronomers. This letter is addressed to those of
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you who are, have been, or would like to be involved in the
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computing end of amateur astronomy.
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A year or so ago, several Fido sysops banded together and began
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mailing around a box of 10 floppies. The originating Sysop filled
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the first diskette with utilities, games and other software that
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he considered to be useful. He then mailed the box off to the
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next sysop who copied the first diskette onto a blank of his own
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and then filled the second diskette as the first sysop had done,
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hopefully avoiding duplication. After the last sysop had done the
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same, the box was mailed back to the originator who reformatted
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the disk which he had originally filled, copied more files onto
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the now blank disk, copied all the other full disks, and then
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sent them all on to sysop number two again. This was a great way
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to keep the software flowing. I would like to suggest the same
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sort of operation for the amateur astronomers out there. Contact
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me on 138/0 if this scheme interests you. You DO NOT have to be a
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sysop to get in on this thing.
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Fidonews Page 5 24 Mar 1986
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Barry Dobyns
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Sysop 102/115, Machinedo - The Way Of The Machine
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(213) 548 3546 - data
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(213) 548 3544 - voice
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FOUR HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT HARD DISKS
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I have some questions that have been nagging me for some time
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about the IBM PC and hard disks. I am posing these questions to
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the general Fido community at large confident that someone out
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there knows the answers.
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If you do know how to solve one of these problems, send mail to
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me at 102/115. If you just want to know the answers, send me a
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note also. If enough interest in the answers is generated, I
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will summarize in a few weeks and post the results in FidoNews.
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1. GETTING MORE THAN 2 HARD DISKS ON AN IBM PC
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Some time ago, I developed a situation where I had numerous small
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hard disks (10, 15 meg) left from upgrading my IBM-PC's and my
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client's IBM-PC's. Now the market for used Miniscribe 2012 hard
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disks is pretty grim, but eight of them constitute 80Mb and
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that's almost interesting.
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Now, the IBM PC/XT hard disk controller has two jumpers on it AS1
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and AS2 that control the ports that it is addressed at. (IBM
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Technical Reference 6025005 page D-64.) So does the DTC 5150-BX,
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W1 and W2. Normally the controller is addressed at 320H, but can
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be readdressed to 324H, 328H and 32CH.
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Furthermore, the IBM PC/XT Fixed Disk BIOS also knows how to
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address all four controllers! See IBM Technical Reference 6025005
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Page A-88, lines 82, 83; Page A-95 lines 627 - 633; Page A-107
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lines 1560 - 1585. So does the DTC.
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PC-DOS 2.1 FDISK even knows how to set up partition tables on
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hard disks connected to extra controllers.
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However, PC-DOS 2.0, 2.1, 3.0 and 3.1 all barf horribly when they
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are booted and more than two hard disks with DOS partitions are
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connected.
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Does anyone have a patch for DOS (preferably 3.1) that fixes
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this?
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Is there an installable device driver that I can use to
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accomplish the same thing?
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Is someone else now anxious to solve this problem (do you have a
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lot of 10 meg hard disks too?) and willing to work with me toward
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a solution?
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Fidonews Page 6 24 Mar 1986
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2. THE DOS 33 MEGABYTE LIMIT
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2.1 Theory 1
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A friend of mine told me that a friend of his told him that the
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fix to PC-DOS to the 33Meg limit on Volume size is a 5 byte patch
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to DOS itself.
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Is this so? Does someone have a copy of the patch?
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How do you FORMAT a volume correctly once you have applied the
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patch?
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I don't want to pay $$$ for a five byte patch (typical for the
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commercial version of this thing) if that's all it really is. On
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the other hand, if it's not a simple patch, and the commercial
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version comes with programs that do all the formatting - and let
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me select the cluster size and fat entry size (12 or 16 bits)
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then maybe it's worth it.
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Does anyone have any experience with any of these programs,
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Especially the "VFeature" from Golden Bow in San Diego? Will
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Emerald sell their software without a subsystem?
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2.2 Theory 2
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Another source tells me that the problem is not with DOS, since
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there is no theoretical limit to the size of a hard disk (the
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clusters just keep getting bigger) the problem is with the DOS
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Format program, which is not clever enough to deal with truly
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moby drives.
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To wit: In DOS 2, with 12 bit FATs, and 4096 byte clusters, the
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theoretical limit for disk size was (2^12 - 16) * 4096 bytes, or
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around 16 Meg, and with 8K clusters it's around 33 MEG. If you
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were willing to WASTE space in the extreme, a 16K cluster could
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buy you a 66 MEG volume - but FORMAT can't deal with it.
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In DOS 3, with 16 bit FATs, and 2048 byte clusters the
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theoretical limit for disk size is (2^16 - 16) * 2048, or 134
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MEG, which is a more reasonable limit. Bigger clusters buy you
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more, of course.
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Is it possible to simply modify the parameter table in the boot
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sector in the hard disk, and initialize the FAT and directory
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sectors myself? I have written a program that initializes, reads
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and writes MSDOS volumes for/on UNIX systems - it is not that
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hard to initialize a DOS volume.
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In other words, Is the "fix" not actually a patch to DOS, but a
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procedure that can be followed manually by any technically expert
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Wizard?
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Fidonews Page 7 24 Mar 1986
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3. DISK CACHING PROGRAMS FOR IBM-PC
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There's now quite a few Disk Caching/Disk Speedup programs for
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the IBM PC commercially available:
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VCache - Golden Bow Systems
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Uses Extended or Expanded memory for up to 16M of disk cache!
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$65
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Lightning - Personal Computer Support Group
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Claims to speed up disk access by factor of 2 $49 copy
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protected, $89 not protected
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Flash - Software Masters
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Claims to speed up disk access by factor of 4 $49
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Disk Optimizer - SoftLogic Solutions
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Claims to move things around on the hard disk so that all
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files reside in contiguous clusters. Doing a backup, format
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and a restore only gets the files contiguous, but not the
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directory clusters (in fact, it gives almost worst-case
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allocation for directories, which are where you want
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contiguous the most!). $49
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Does anyone have any experience with any of these programs? Are
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there freeware products that are as good or better?
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4. USING QUANTUM 2000 HARD DISK WITH ST506 CONTROLLER
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So, I have a Quantum 2040 and two Quantum 2080 hard disk drives
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lingering about here. It would please me greatly to hook them up
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to anything I have handy -that probably means either an IBM-PC
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(preferred) or an S-100 machine (probably a Seattle Computer
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Products, runs MS-DOS). Problem is, nobody seems to make
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controllers for SA1000 type hard disk drives anymore. The ST506
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interface took over the market.
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I am told that I can use an ST506 controller - Thusly:
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signal name 34 pin conn. 50 pin conn
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*RWC 2 2
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*Head Sel 2 4 4
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*Write Gate 6 40
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*Seek Complete 8 8
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*TR000 10 42
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*Write Fault 12 44
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*Head Sel 3 14 14
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*Sector 16 16
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*Head Sel 1 18 18
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*Index 20 20
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*Ready 22 22
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*Step 24 36
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*Drive Sel 1 26 26
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*Drive Sel 2 28 28
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Fidonews Page 8 24 Mar 1986
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*Drive Sel 3 30 30
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*Drive Sel 4 32 32
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*Direction In 34 34
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(the notation *signal means the same as signal, but overbars are
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hard to do)
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And furthermore, I can accomplish this by simply jumpering near
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the connector on the 20xx as follows: 6-40, 10-42, 12-44, 24-36
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and just running 34 conductor cable all the way to the 20xx and
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terminating with a 50 pin connector (heh, heh) on the low order
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side of the cable.
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Has anyone tried this? Does it actually work?
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Thanks in advance,
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Barry Dobyns, 102/115
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Fidonews Page 9 24 Mar 1986
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David Melnik 107/33
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How to set-up a Multiuser system on a PC
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for under 50$
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I am sure that most of you are at least slightly familiar
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with the idea of a multiuser and/or multitasking system and would
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all like to have a machine that did both, right on your desk top.
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Well for $49.95 you can have one or the other as you desire.
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The program that you need is DoubleDOS by SoftLogic
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Solutions and it can be had for under $50 from various
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distributors and I believe from SoftLogic at 530 Chestnut St.
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Manchester, NH 03101 or 1-800-272-9900 (call them before sending
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money).
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What DoubleDOS does is partition your ROM into two separate
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areas (top and bottom sections) of various sizes that you can set
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from 48k to your maximum memory. DoubleDOS takes less than 50K.
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A minimum system configuration of 192K is recommended.
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DoubleDOS is a multitasking program that allows you to run
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two programs at once and switch between the two with the tap of a
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key. There are two tasks, the visible and the invisible tasks.
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The visible one is the one on your screen and the invisible one
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is the one running in the background. Obviously only one task
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can be visible at any time and direct screen writing programs
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must be run in the "top" section. The way to make DoubleDOS
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multitasking is easy. First switch the background task and start
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a program, then switch to the foreground task and start a program
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there, viola! Both programs are running. (Note: Check the
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DoubleDOS manual for automatic program starting with DoubleDOS.)
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What I had originally obtained a copy of DoubleDOS for was
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to make 107/33 a 24hrs. a day BBS. I'm sure a lot of sysops can
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sympathize with me in that their departments use the PC and DECs
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during the day for useless tasks like Accounts Payable and word
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processing, and not until everyone goes home does the real
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purpose for computers come to life, Fido and FidoNet! Well with
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DoubleDOS I thought that I would be able to keep the BBS up
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24hrs. and I was. Well, almost. First off, version 11q of Fido
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seemed to run fine and all was well. Then 11s came and Fido
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would not run in the top or bottom section of DoubleDOS. When
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using 11q with DoubleDOS (I have DoubleDOS 3.1T and PC-DOS 3.1
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with 512k on an XT with a 20 meg Seagate) I had a bottom section
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with approximately 170K and Fido ran fine with that. When 11s
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came I boosted the memory in the bottom section all the way to
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300K+ and I still got a error that said not enough memory for
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program. Now this was not a DOS error message, as Fido came up
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with its disclaimers and licensing information, then gave the
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message and aborted. By decreasing the space that the
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environment used I finally got Fido and DoubleDOS running
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together. See NODELIST.052 and the file ENVIRON.FIX that came
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with it to decrease the size of the environment. Also I reset
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the path while running Fido, as Fido does not need a path.
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Aborting Fido resets the PATH via the RUNBBS.BAT batch file that
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I use to run Fido.
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Fidonews Page 10 24 Mar 1986
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Getting to run two programs on my BBS had me so happy that I
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thought about how to get DoubleDOS to make my XT a multiuser
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system. Well, my experiment worked quite nicely and was rather
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simple. I used:
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1 - Televideo 950 Terminal
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1 - Null modem cable
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1 - DoubleDOS ver. 3.1T
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1 - Async board
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1 - PC/XT with 512K
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I start up DOS with no resident software, and give a MODE
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command:
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MODE COM2:96,,,,P
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In the DoubleDOS configuration file, DDCONFIG.SYS, I set the
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following parameters:
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TOP = COM1
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BOTTOM = COM2
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BOTTOM PROGRAM = CTTY COM2
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Now it is time to hook up the terminal. I set the
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Televideo 950 to 9600 baud by setting the appropriate switched in
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the back by the ON/OFF switch, or by hitting SHFT-SETUP and using
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the arrows to move the cursor to the baud rate and then type T
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till the baud rate is 9600. Now I connect the terminal to COM2
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using the null modem cable. I wired the null modem cable with
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the following connections:
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1 ---- 1
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2 ---- 3
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IBM 3 ---- 2 TV 950
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4 ---- 5
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5 ---- 4
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6 ---- 20
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7 ---- 7
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8 nc 8
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20 ---- 6 *)
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When I run DoubleDOS the screen is in the top memory section
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and the bottom memory section prompt comes up on the terminal.
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There are some definite limitations to the programs that can
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be run like this. Programs that write to the screen, like VEDIT,
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LOTUS, BASIC, BASIC and the like are some such programs. But
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most if not all of the DOS commands are now available to the
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second user (bottom section) as well as the first user (top
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section). Version 11t of Fido can also be run in test mode for
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BBS maintenance.
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I would really like to hear from other people who have tried
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this, and hear what they have done with this. Please direct all
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comments and inquires to David Melnik 107/33 for a prompt reply.
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Fidonews Page 11 24 Mar 1986
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Larry DiGioia, sysop Fido 129/17
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NEVERBOARD, 412-733-4842 - 24 hrs./300/1200/2400
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What do sysops do in their spare time? ("Ha!" you say, "Sysops
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DON'T HAVE any spare time!"). Well, that's certainly true in a
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way, but before I started running a Fido, I spent most of my
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spare time enjoying the latest movies, books, TV shows, and
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occasionally listening to international broadcasts on shortwave
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radio. As a matter of fact, I consider myself a sort of amateur
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movie critic. So, when the opportunity to start a BBS presented
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itself, what better theme to dedicate it to than the above-
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mentioned subjects?
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NEVERBOARD is a BBS dedicated to "Entertainment of All Kinds".
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Like many of you, when I first started calling BBSs, the first
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messages I entered were on the order of, "Does anyone know what I
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can do to get my modem to download files"? Then, after that
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particular problem was solved, and I had downloaded (what I
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thought was) my fill of games, graphics and other time wasters, I
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kind of said to myself, "What next"? I believe a BBS should serve
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some useful function, or else it will turn into the typing
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equivalent of a circle of grade school friends who have just
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discovered the telephone: meaningless remarks about things that
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no one else is interested in, better to be kept private.
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I see Fido as an important resource that allows people to meet
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and exchange important information that they would otherwise have
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no way of finding, at least not in such a timely way. When you
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see a movie or TV show, or read a book, call NEVERBOARD and leave
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a message about how you liked it. You will be performing an
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important service: helping to promote interest in a work of art
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that other people might otherwise not hear about through unbiased
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observation. Or you might have the satisfaction of knowing that
|
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after they read your comments, others won't have to waste $9.95
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on the latest record from a current "Supergroup".
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We have our technical side, too. The tech and shortwave radio
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section is a place where you can find hints and help if you would
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like to get involved in this fascinating hobby. I would like to
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start a regular mail route for passing on the latest information
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on stations heard, program schedules, etc. I have just added a 30
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meg. drive to help distribute the growing amount of truly high
|
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quality public domain software that is making the rounds. We also
|
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have informational files on shortwave listening and local
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broadcast schedules. Just remember: the next time you would like
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to share your latest discovery of a good book, movie, video-
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cassette or anything that qualifies as entertainment, CALL
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NEVERBOARD! If you would like to mail in a review or comment, I
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will be happy to convert/transfer it to the appropriate area of
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the board.
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- Larry DiGioia, sysop
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412-733-4842 - Fido 129/17 - NEVERBOARD - 24 hrs./300/1200/2400
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Fidonews Page 12 24 Mar 1986
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SHUTTLE
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And so they came to the Melting Pot,
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All the races of the world,
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Some with a will and some against their will.
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They found that the earth beneath their feet
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Any dream they chose.
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They chose as their greatest dream
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Traveling among the stars.
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They studied and learned and
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Took from the Earth what they needed to
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Build their slim dream machines, and they practiced
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With their machines and sometimes faltered, for no thing made of
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Atoms, be it man or man-made, can be perfect.
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But they practiced, and one such practice they held on a
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Clear, cool, Tuesday morning in January. After some delays, but
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Still as a routine mission, they sent another dream aloft.
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Then, high enough and far enough away so no one else was hurt,
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But close enought so the cameras could see,
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This piece of the Dream.
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Spread itself beautifully and violently
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Across the sky, deceiving those watching, for a moment,
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Into thinking that all was well.
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Zues might have worked like this when he placed
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Orion of Gemini or the Pleides in the Skies.
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The Pleides (the Seven Sisters),
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Cluster close together high in the winter sky.
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Tuesday's constellation has seven stars,
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But must go by a different name
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For five were brothers, and two were sisters;
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These seven came from all the races of the world,
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And one of the sisters was a teacher of children,
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A gentle hand, a loving hand, who said,
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"I take a piece of each of you with me."
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She spoke to her children in her home stae, and to us all,
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Because we all identify so strongly with school,
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With those teachers we valued,
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And with our years of education,
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Which built, among other things, this Dream.
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In a sense, the terrible trails of the falling debris
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Were changed by having the teacher aboard.
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We are used to thinking of hardened engineers trained in
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Cold numbers; this would have been just another cold accident.
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The teacher added a gentleness, a warnth; making the pieces of
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Debris more like petals she was giving back to us.
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Fidonews Page 13 24 Mar 1986
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This tiny emmissary of the human species crossed the barrier from
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Life into Death to be part of a Larger Universe;
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They remind us of the part of a Larger Universe,
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Of which we are all a part, even as we breathe,
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Plays in all our Dreams.
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Written by Rob Kimmich, a Science Teacher at the Maret School
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(Fido 109/612)
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Fidonews Page 14 24 Mar 1986
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Al de la Torre
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FIDO 135/7
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In Every Cloud.....
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I hate to see the unfortunate experience of one person
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tarnish the reputation of an otherwise outstanding company. From
|
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my perspective and firsthand experience, SoftLogic Solutions is a
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model company. When I first learned about DoubleDOS (over a year
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ago) it was selling for $99. At that time, and for that price,
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if it worked I felt it was a fair value for my money. I knew it
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might not work because I was using a Compaq Deskpro running
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Compaq's version of MS-DOS, not PC-DOS. But then, as now,
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SoftLogic had a 30 day return policy, so I went ahead and ordered
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it.
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When the package arrived, I was unable to get it to run FIDO
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in the background so I called their tech support. The friend-
|
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liness and earnest attempts to solve the problem really impressed
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me. Unfortunately the program could not be made to work and
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after working on it a couple hours with tech support for a few
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days in a row, I gave up and returned the product for a refund.
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A few months later two things happened. I heard of a FIDO
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running under Double Dos and SoftLogic came out with a special
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deal to purchase two programs: DoubleDOS and Disk Optimizer for
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$89. Due to my favorable experience with the company in the past
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I immediately called and placed an order. This time everything
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worked like a champ. I've been running 135/7 for a long time now
|
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with this great product and it is now an indispensable function
|
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to be able to do maintenance on the BBS without bringing it down.
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I feel the company is making great effort to accommodate
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users. Reducing the price is something that really impresses me.
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When was the last time Multilink got cheaper?
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On the point in Neal's article concerning the BBS. All
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right, so the sysop forgot to install the new password he was
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given. At least they have a BBS. If they were like most
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companies you would have to send back your original disk and
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waited until they sent you a new one. This would take far longer
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than the 4 days you attempted to get through. Also I'm curious
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as to why you didn't call their voice number the day after the
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first password failed. The password changes daily, and it
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should. They are placing a valuable product in a precarious
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position.
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I talked to tech support yesterday (3-6-86) and was told
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they are putting in extra phone lines and adding more support
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personnel. I encourage other users of Double Dos to call
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SoftLogic (603) 644-5555 and say they want the BBS up 24 hrs.
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Also suggesting they place one person in charge of sysop respon-
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sibilities might be a good idea.
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Fidonews Page 15 24 Mar 1986
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Announcing a new FIDO
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Fido 107/601
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(215) 367-6558
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SYSOPS
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Annette Sine-Weilnau
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Peter Weilnau
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There is a new FIDO on the East Coast! It's free, public and
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already has a good assortment of PC and MacIntosh public domain
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software. So far it's only 20 meg and 1200 baud, but the 2400
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will soon be here, and we promise to add more storage when it's
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needed.
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What's the catch? There is none, but, we do have a special theme
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for "Stone Wall". We think that computer technology can be used
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to help fight some of mankind's basic problems. So, we chose to
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help with the hunger problem. Now, you might ask "How in the
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world can a BBS help fight the hunger problem?" We have some
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ideas that we're going to try, and with your help, we hope to
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find a lot more ideas in the future.
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Initially, The Stone Wall BBS will carry information about
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individuals and small organizations that have come up with
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noteworthy ideas and methods to help fight hunger. But we we're
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sure there are many more things a BBS can do to help with these
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tough problems. So, if you have any ideas how computer tech-
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nology can help, please share them with us, after all, that's
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what we're here for!
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We think that by carrying extensive public domain libraries, we
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can attract more people - which in turn helps to spread ideas and
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increase our effectiveness. So any software contributions you
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can make, will make a big difference. See how easy it is to
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help!
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We hope that our public service orientation will help bring
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credibility to the BBSing community. After all, we sure do need
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some good press. And your support will contribute to maintaining
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the freedom that Bulletin Boards enjoy today.
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Fidonews Page 16 24 Mar 1986
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COLUMNS
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Notes from Abroad
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Modems, BELL, and the CCITT standard
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As distributors of both hardware and software in Scandinavia, my
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company has put great effort in finding modems to fit our
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European standard, CCITT. We've sent telexes and called
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virtually every manufacturer of Modems (Hayes compatible) in the
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USA. Here are the compiled results, after squeezing the
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technical support staff of every vendor we've been in touch with:
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HAYES
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Hayes is heavily emphasizing their new 2400 bps modem being
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fully compatible with the European CCITT standard. This is
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true, because the V22.bis (2400/2400 baud) standard is
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exactly the same in both the USA and Europe. The only
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problem (which they incidentally forget to mention) being
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that the lower baud rates are only available in BELL
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standard.
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This means that the money spent on a Hayes modem (approx.
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$750.00 US, freight included), is a waste. It can only be
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used for connecting to the US time slot, and will have to be
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specially set up and plugged in for the time the time slot is
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active.
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Also, they are currently working on setting up their European
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distributor network, and will not or cannot ship overseas.
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U.S. ROBOTICS
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Same as for Hayes, only CCITT compatible at V22.bis.
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VEN-TEL
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I had my hopes high when I was connected to the tech support
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people after talking to the sales department: I was told that
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their modem was CCITT compatible also below 2400/2400. After
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3 phone calls and 2 telexes, I finally got the news: It's
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only compatible on V22 and V22.bis, not V21 (300/300), due to
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the internal structure of their LSI-chip. Also they do have
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another modem that's cheaper, without the V22.bis, but that
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couldn't take V21 either.
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I tried to explain our situation to them, and was promised
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that V21 would be implemented in their next revision of the
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chip. That's so far, we'll have to see.
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QUBIE
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QUBIE has been known to take odd ways when designing their
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products, and I wasn't let down:
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QUBIE will shortly release a 100% Hayes compatible modem
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featuring CCITT standards V21 and V22. V22.bis isn't
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included, but might be sometime in the near future.
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Fidonews Page 17 24 Mar 1986
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The rest of the list isn't really too interesting, just to
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mention RACAL-VADIC's modems; they aren't on CCITT either...
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It seems like the US vendors have been blind when designing their
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modems, not realizing the enormous market in Europe for CCITT.
|
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The fact is that the difference between CCITT and BELL is so
|
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little that a new ROM for some of the modems, and a little more
|
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effort in the LSI-chips for others, wouldn't be too much to
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expect.
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As far as I know there are no European manufacturer that can
|
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offer modems that are true Hayes-compatible; Accepting the "AT"
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command set, and autoswitching between baud-rates. The Norwegian
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TeleCom have been talking about the issue for some time now, but
|
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they won't release it for at least another year, if my sources
|
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are correct.
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If you have any comments on this issue, please send mail to:
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Sysop on 4701/101 - Hackers Unlimited.
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Address:
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Hackers Unlimited
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c/o Hercz Data A/S
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Huitfeldts Gate 16
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N-0253 Oslo 2
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Norway
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Voice +47 2 431 655
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Fidonews Page 18 24 Mar 1986
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WANTED
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Kirk Finner
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Fido 143/3
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''' I need YOU! To help me.. P-L-E-A-S-E? '''
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*1* Looking for direct user information from people who
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own the BRIDGE utility diskette for use with PFS:
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FILE on the APPLE2+ computer.
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*2* Looking for direct user information from people who
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own APPLE2+ compatible software packages for GENEOLOGY
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studies.
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*3* Looking for direct user information from people who
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own or can LOCATE APPLE2+ compatible software packages
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for GRAPHOANALYSIS (PLEASE do not take this request
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as if someone else will answer it first, ALL answers
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will be replied to VERY gratefully.)
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*4* Looking for a deal less than $20 on an RS232 interface
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card for the APPLE2+ computer. I'll consider buying
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two and the interface cable is optional. A C.C.S.
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compatible card is preferd. Baud rates of 50 to 19.2K
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Settings are a MUST. A short blurp sheet on all
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possible settings and card programming is also a plus.
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*5* And last, I'm looking to see if there is an ARC and
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DE-ARC utility for the APPLE series computer. I'd
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like to be able to download and unpack the IBM specific
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TEXT files (the ones that most SYSOPS keep as the
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FIDONEWS).
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Fidonews Page 19 24 Mar 1986
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FOR SALE
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RUN DIBOL PROGRAMS ON RAINBOW MS-DOS
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Would you like to be able to run DIBOL programs on your DEC
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Rainbow or IBM PC? Well you can by running a DBL runtime system.
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You may purchase DBL runtime system for $99.00. For additional
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information, send us your name and address to:
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DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS, INC.
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BOX 1409
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MS-DB
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NORCROSS, GA 30071
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OR SEND FIDO MAIL TO 133/5, OR CONTACT US ON COMPUSERVE 72205,321
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OR THE SOURCE MKT053 OR USE THE VOICE PHONE 404 441-7973.
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DIBOL is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corp.
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DBL is a trade mark of Digital Information Systems Corp.
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MS-DOS is a trade mark of Microsoft, Inc.
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If you don't know what IBM is then your name must be Herb.
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Fidonews Page 20 24 Mar 1986
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ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE FOR YOUR PC!
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SUPERDOTS! KALAH!
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Professional quality games include PASCAL source! From the
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author of KALAH Version 1.6, SuperDots, a variation of the
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popular pencil/paper DOTS game, has MAGIC and HIDDEN DOT
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options. KALAH 1.7 is an African strategy game requiring
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skill to manipulate pegs around a playing board. Both games
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use the ANSI Escape sequences provided with the ANSI.SYS
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device driver for the IBM-PC, or built into the firmware on
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the DEC Rainbow. Only $19.95 each or $39.95 for both
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exciting games! Please specify version and disk format.
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These games have been written in standard TURBO-PASCAL and
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run on the IBM-PC, DEC Rainbow 100 (MSDOS and CPM), CPM/80,
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CPM/86, and PDP-11. Other disk formats are available, but
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minor customization may be required.
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BSS Software
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P.O. Box 3827
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Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
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For every order placed, a donation will be made to the Fido
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coordinators! Also, if you have a previous version of KALAH
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and send me a donation, a portion of that donation will also
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be sent to the coordinators. When you place an order, BE
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CERTAIN TO MENTION WHERE YOU SAW THE AD since it also
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appears in PC Magazine and Digital Review.
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Questions and comments can be sent to:
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Brian Sietz at Fido 107/17
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(609) 429-6630 300/1200/2400 baud
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Fidonews Page 21 24 Mar 1986
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Now available from Micro Consulting Associates!!
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Public Domain collection - 300+ "ARC" archives - 10 megs of
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software and other goodies, and that's "archived" size! When
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unpacked, you get approximately 17 megabytes worth of all kinds
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of software, from text editors to games to unprotection schemes
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to communications programs, compilers, interpreters, etc...
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This collection is the result of more than 10 months of intensive
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downloads from just about 100 or more BBS's and other sources,
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all of which have been examined, indexed and archived for your
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convenience. Starting a Bulletin Board System? Want to add on
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to your software base without spending thousands of dollars? This
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is the answer!!!
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To order the library, send $100 (personal or company check,
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postal money order or company purchase order) to:
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Micro Consulting Associates, Fido 103/511
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Post Office Box 4296
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200-1/2 E. Balboa Boulevard
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Balboa, Ca. 92661-4296
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Please allow 3 weeks for delivery of your order.
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Note: No profit is made from the sale of the Public Domain
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software in this collection. The price is applied entirely to
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the cost of downloading the software over the phone lines,
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running a BBS to receive file submissions, and inspecting,
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cataloguing, archiving and maintaining the files. Obtaining this
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software yourself through the use of a computer with a modem
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using commercial phone access would cost you much more than what
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we charge for the service...
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Please specify what type of format you would like the disks to be
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prepared on. The following choices are available:
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IBM PC-DOS Backup utility
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Zenith MS-DOS 2.11 Backup Utility
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DSBackup
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Fastback
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Plain ol' files (add $50, though, it's a lot of
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work and takes more diskettes...)
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Add $30 if you want the library on 1.2 meg AT disks (more
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expensive disks). There are no shipping or handling charges.
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California residents add 6% tax.
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For each sale, $10 will go to the FidoNet Administrators.
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Fidonews Page 22 24 Mar 1986
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SEAdog Electronic Mail System
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Special Offer for FidoNet Sysops
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System Enhancement Associates, the makers of the popular ARC file
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archive utility, are proud to announce the release of the SEAdog
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electronic mail system.
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SEAdog is a PC-based electronic mail system which is fully
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FidoNet compatible. In addition to all the functionality of
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FidoNet mail, SEAdog adds the following:
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o User directory support, for automatic lookup of node numbers
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o Return receipts
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o Audit trails
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o Message forwarding, with or without a retained copy
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o Twenty four hour mail reception
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o High priority mail for immediate delivery
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o The ability to request files and updates of files from other
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SEAdog systems.
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o No route files needed!
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o A full screen user interface that our beta test sites fell in
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love with!
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SEAdog is NOT a bulletin board system, but it can be used as a
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"front end" for Fido (version 11t), allowing you to add the full
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functionality of SEAdog to your existing system.
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SEAdog normally sells for $100/node, but for a limited time only
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we are offering SEAdog to registered FidoNet sysops for only $35!
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Orders may be placed by sending a check or money order to:
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System Enhancement Associates
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21 New Street, Wayne NJ 07470
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Or by calling (201) 473-5153 (VISA and MasterCard accepted).
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Fidonews Page 23 24 Mar 1986
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NOTICES
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WARNING
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Fido 11u has a major bug! DO NOT use the sysop "3" command! It
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causes all commands to be available to all users. Tom Jennings
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is aware of the problem, and a fix will soon be available.
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Meanwhile, avoid using the "3" command AT ALL COSTS!
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The Interrupt Stack
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11 Apr 1986
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Halley's Comet reaches perigee.
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19 May 1986
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Steve Lemke's next birthday.
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24 Aug 1989
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Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
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If you have something which you would like to see on this
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calendar, please send a message to Fido 1/1.
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If you are running Fido with DoubleDOS, please send me
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FidoMail. I am keep a list DoubleDos nodes that will be
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posted as message number 1 in my DoubleDOS message area.
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Oscar Barlow
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Node 104/56
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Alias 1/105 DoubleDOS Help
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Fidonews Page 24 24 Mar 1986
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