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Volume 6, Number 1 2 January 1989
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Editor in Chief Dale Lovell
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Editor Emeritus: Thom Henderson
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Contributing Editors: Al Arango
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FidoNews is published weekly by the International FidoNet
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Association as its official newsletter. You are encouraged to
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submit articles for publication in FidoNews. Article submission
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standards are contained in the file ARTSPEC.DOC, available from
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node 1:1/1. 1:1/1 is available for network mail between NMH-1
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hour to NMH+1 hour. At all other times, netmail is not accepted
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although submissions can be uploaded.
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Copyright 1988 by the International FidoNet Association. All
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rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for
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noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances,
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please contact IFNA at (314) 576-4067. IFNA may also be contacted
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at PO Box 41143, St. Louis, MO 63141.
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Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of
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Fido Software, 164 Shipley Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94107 and
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are used with permission.
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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. We publish EVERYTHING
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received.
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Happy New Year!!!
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Table of Contents
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1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1
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Backmail - A new comm. program ........................... 1
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Followup to "Last Saturday" .............................. 3
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VETNet is ALIVE!!!!! ..................................... 5
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2. COLUMNS .................................................. 12
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RegComm - Communications From RegCon ..................... 12
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Rogel's Corner: Laptops ................................. 14
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Let's YACK about Culture ................................. 21
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3. NOTICES .................................................. 22
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 22
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And more!
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 1 2 Jan 1989
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ARTICLES
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BACKMAIL
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Product Description: A new kind of micro-computer communications
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program which provides modem to modem E-Mail and file transfers
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etween any two MS-DOS machines running the program.
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A small (35K RAM) TSR automatically schedules, calls and sends
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mail to up to 100 destinations at a time in the background. TSR
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answers the phone, receives messages or files and sends any
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messages or files addressed to the calling program (identified by
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phone number). Automatically retries if busy, or broken connec-
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tion. A hot key brings up (by memory swapping) a front end
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program which allows the user to read, send and monitor mail
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flow. *Very* fast and unobtrusive in operation. Point and shoot
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menus throughout. Easy to use.
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A full screen text editor for messages (max 3.5K), word wrap,full
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cursor movement. Messages automatically stamped with: time sent
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or received; letter heads, forwarding and reply history. Incoming
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and outgoing mail listed by subject line, time received or posted
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and destination name. Mailboxes support: delete message, delete
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all messages, delete all read/sent messages. Messages can be
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appended to separate files. On screen notification of arrival of
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mail.
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Eight user definable prefixes (for inter-office numbers, local,
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long distance...). Handles Long numbers or short extensions.
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Allows separate phone entries for destination's voice and data
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lines. Destinations can be give priority in scheduling. Destina-
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tions can me marked so calling system refuses return mail (for
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long distance calling).
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Status Display shows pending messages, number of times called for
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all pending files or messages. Calls to specific destinations
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can be suspended so traffic is delivered only when that destin-
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ation calls. Status Display also records aborted transmissions
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with diagnosis of cause of failure.
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Program maintains a mailing list of up to 1000 phone numbers.
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Messages are addressed by menu of phone directory. A message can
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be addressed to up to 100 separate destinations per access.
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Allows bulk mailing for inter-office or local numbers (up to
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1000).
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For each destination in mailing directory the program stores
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information on when the destination is available for data traffic
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and how many times the destination should be retried if busy.
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Each user declares own availability time and maximum retries and
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this info is exchanged whenever two BackMails communicate. Calls
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are automatically scheduled and retried to take account of dest-
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ination's window of availability.
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 2 2 Jan 1989
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File directory listing, wildcards permitted. Up to 100 files can
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be addressed at to 1-100 separate destinations each access. Sends
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files of any size. File sending protocol insures destination has
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sufficient disk space.
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Setup menu allows user extensive control of program parameters,
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including: toggle user notification, data only versus voice &
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data operation, Wait for dial tone, defining hot keys, on screen
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clock, screen colors, customized modem command strings and modem
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response codes. Happily cohabits with most other TSRs.
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The program is share ware. It periodically asks you to register
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your copy ($30), whines for 20 seconds if you don't. To register
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you hit a key and fill out a form with credit card info. As soon
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as the registration screen is completed the program will not
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bother you again. The credit card info is sent to an 800 data
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number (US & Canada). Registered users receive strong technical
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support.
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BackMail is available through BBS's and Information services.
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Alethic offers SYSOPS and SIGs a royalty arrangement which
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provides a $3.00 royalty for each copy registered. Contact
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Alethic for details. Alethic Software, 52 Parkhill Road, Halifax,
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Nova Scotia, Canada B3P 1R2 Voice: (902) 420-0734 BIX(alethic)
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 3 2 Jan 1989
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FOLLOWUP TO "LAST SATURDAY"
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Tom Jennings
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Node 1:125/111
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This short article is a followup to the one in FNEWS5-48; maybe
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it will provide a little background and answer some questions.
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The FidoNet itself was based upon the principles I try to live my
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life by; respecting others rights, principles and lives; self-
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determination, and organization by cooperation, not coercion. All
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of these are, after all, the most basic anarchist principles.
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There is no contradiction in what I say vs. what I do.
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The language in the article was a violent response to a violent
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day. And yes, my life is my personal business only, and not
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yours: however there are people out there who want to meddle in
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MY business for THEIR reasons. I have no right to interfere with
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you if you like to hang out in suburban malls, stay home and read
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the Bible, join the army, drop out of school and become a hippy,
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or anthing else that doesn't interfere with MY life.
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The very first negative comment I received said "All that you
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have done is to reinforce the views about homosexuals held by
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such unthinking individuals as the driver of that car. And you
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may have steered some of the rest of us toward the same path by
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your inclusion of such explicit terms and references..."
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Well spoken: this is exactly what my article is about. The second
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sentence above says that in response to what I wrote, violence
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against me, and the legal (or not) removal of my rights is an
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acceptable response.
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Now after reading my article you could call me an ass, tasteless,
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rude, disgusting, awful, inconsiderate, perverse, whatever you
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want, you're entitled to your opinion. But violence? I cannot
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tell you how common this train of thought is, and how often it is
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followed up with violence or death. It is simply a
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rationalization of the desire to commit violence upon someone,
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for reasons of the perpetrators alone. This is what my article is
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about. No, it's not very pleasant at all, is it?
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The article had almost nothing to do with sexuality; it had to do
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with fascist (look it up in a dictionary) behaviour, as it
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exists, today, in the USA. I never said that IV (or any other)
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drug use is "OK", or unprotected anal sex is "OK", or that you or
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I would find these things comfortable subjects. Nor are they
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related except for disease transmission. Gay people do them no
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more often than straight ones. The fact remains that many people
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DO do these things, that's life, even people who read this
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newsletter.
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Defending peoples rights is not the same as defending what they
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do. I will defend myself, my friends, and your right to live as
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we each see fit. That, my friends, is what fighting for
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individual freedom, and First Amendment rights, really means.
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Have you ever read the United States Constitution? Read it, and
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 4 2 Jan 1989
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see the intent behind the words. Look around you and see the
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attempts to circumvent it. Send me $1.00 (Tom Jennings, Box
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77731, San Francisco CA 94107) and I will mail you a typeset
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copy, nicely annotated, for your reference.
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I've said more than I planned on the subject; I'm not here to
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argue with anybody, you can believe what you want. I do not like
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to argue politics or personal ethics, it offends everyone. This
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is the last I will say on this subject.
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Remember the quote by that Catholic priest in Nazi Germany: "When
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they came for the jews, I didn't object because I wasn't a jew
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... when they came for me, there was no one left to object."
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Sheesh, I'm not usually so grim and serious. I promise I'll
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shut up now. I have received more positive mail than hate mail,
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and that's a good sign. But hell, I knew the net was filled with
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mostly cool intelligent people, and could absorb something a
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a bit (ahem) shocking. Sometimes things don't get spoken,
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because... they just don't get said. Inertia. Time to speak out,
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boys and girls.
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* * *
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As an aside, from my point of view, the network, all 4000+ nodes,
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seems to run amazingly well. I know there's a lot of fighting
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over control structures and such, as in the current trauma over
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"other" networks, but the fact remains I can send a message just
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about anywhere with incredible reliability. We haven't been
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struck dumb by Babel, the nodelist is still wonderful, and the
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RCs and NCs do a damn good job. Looks great!!!
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 5 2 Jan 1989
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VETNet is ALIVE!!!!!
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By: Todd C. Looney
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Vietnam Veterans' Valhalla
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1:143/27 300/1200/2400 Bauds
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(408) 293-7894
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The sysops of the Vietnam Veterans Valhalla bulletin board
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are both Vietnam combat veterans; I served during the war as a
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Medical Field Surgeon in the U.S. Navy attached to an Emergency
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Field Evac Hospital and later a long-range recon team near Dac
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To, and spent more than my fair share of time in a VC/NVA prison
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camp across the border in Laos, and Nancy my wife, who is a
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veteran of a different sort having fought HER war *years* after I
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returned to the United States, battling the problems I
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brought back from that little country tucked thousands of
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miles away in Southeast Asia. Nancy and I have, for the most
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part, conquered all of the problems of that traumatic past
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through years of hard work!
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Many of the men and women who returned from that war
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continue to carry it's memories and nightmares with them today.
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Although most Vietnam veterans live a successful, happy life,
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there are those whose every day is a bitter struggle to survive,
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trying to find some way to either escape the horrible memories,
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or to come to terms with themselves so they and their families
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can begin to live a normal life!!
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We feel it is our responsibility as caring and empathetic
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individuals to share ourselves with those Vietnam combat
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veterans of both kinds; the ex-military soldier-at-arms, and
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their wives, friends, and lovers, with the hope that somehow the
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knowledge and understanding we gained from the years
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encompassing our own struggle might be of some help to those who
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are still fighting their war!!!
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THE VIETNAM VETERANS' VALHALLA BULLETIN BOARD
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IS DEDICATED TO VIETNAM VETERANS,
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THEIR WIVES, FRIENDS, & LOVERS!
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And to the memory of the 58,000 men and women who never came home
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Our system has been successfully operating for nearly 3
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years now, and received well over 37,000 calls! We also founded
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and coordinated the International Vietnam Veterans'
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EchoConference (IVVEC) which can be seen on more than 200
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bulletin boards across the United States, Canada, and Australia.
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Please contact our system, or one of the nodes listed below who
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carry our conference and join in. You don't need to be a veteran
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of any kind to participate. We welcome you with open arms to
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learn who we are and what we are all about!
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Nancy and I are looking forward to meeting you all, as are
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the Sysops of the nearly 200 VETNet BBs systems below:
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VETNet NODELIST
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 6 2 Jan 1989
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Compiled by the Vietnam Veterans In Canada
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As of 25 November 88 these are the net/nodes that are currently
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listed as receiving the International Vietnam Veterans Echo. If
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your local BBS is not listed, please send a message to Woody
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Carmack 153/130 (1-604-462-8753) or leave a message in the
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IVVEC.
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NET/ MAX
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NODE BBS NAME City/State/Country Phone BAUD
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632/350 Yarra Valley BBS Melbourne Austr AU 61-3-848-331 1200
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114/113 Corwin's Keep Tempe AZ 1-602-894-1470 2400
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114/13 Corwin's Keep Tempe AZ 1-602-894-1470 2400
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153/123 DAETECH Burnaby BC 1-604-420-2641 9600
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153/130 Vietnam Veterans In Canada Vancouver_BC 1-604-462-8753
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153/501 Valley Hub Clearbrook BC 1-604-850-0021 2400
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153/133 Hot Line Data Network Langley BC 1-604-533-0421 2400
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220/20 Old Frog's Almanac Nanaimo BC 1-604-758-3072 2400
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103/507 Philosopher's Log Anaheim CA 1-714-535-1258 9600
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402/100 The Board Room Belmont Shores CA 1-213-498-6425 2400
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161/502 Wildcat Benicia CA 1-707-746-5820 2400
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161/66 Generic BBS Citrus Heights CA 1-916-722-3659 2400
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203/66 Generic BBS Citrus Heights CA 1-916-722-3659 2400
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161/1 Nerd's Nook Concord CA 1-415-672-2504 9600
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202/401 jabberWOCky Escondido CA 1-619-743-9935 2400
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161/34 Now and Zen OPUS Fair Oaks CA 1-916-962-1952 9600
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161/56 Nat'l Family Forum Freemont, CA 1-415-651-4147 2400
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161/7 Mover Mouse BBS Fremont, CA 1-415-883-1644 2400
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161/39 Nightline Mather AFB, CA 1-916-362-1755 2400
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161/509 Enterprize Pinole, CA 1-415-758-1650 2400
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161/11 The Byte Boutique Sacramento CA 1-916-483-8032 2400
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 7 2 Jan 1989
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161/5 River City II OPUS Sacramento, CA 1-916-646-9678 9600
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161/943 Eagle's Nest Sacramento, CA 1-916-334-2822 9600
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10/215 Silver BBS San Diego, CA 1-619-226-4502 2400
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125/31 Echo Coord San Francisco CA 1-415-621-5206 9600
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143/27 Vietnam Veterans Valhalla San Jose CA 1-408-293-7894 2400
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143/86 Cat's Tail BBS S T O P San Mateo CA 1-415-349-8245 2400
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125/78 Living Sober BBS San Mateo, CA 1-415-342-2859 2400
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125/12 The Grape Vine Santa Rosa, CA 1-707-546-4938 2400
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125/7 Survival Forum Santa Rosa, CA 1-707-545-0746 2400
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103/501 Mount Silverthorn Tustin, CA 1-714-544-3369 2400
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104/28 Pinecliff BBS Boulder, CO 1-303-444-7073 2400
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128/13 COSUG-Colorado's User Clrdo Spg CO 1-404-548-0726 2400
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128/16 Firenet Leader Colorado Spring CO 1-303-591-9600 2400
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104/739 The Phoenix Parker, CO 1-303-841-9570 2400
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104/51 P2 B2 South Denver, CO 1-303-329-3337 2400
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141/488 Alice's Restaurant Branford CT 1-203-488-1115 2400
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141/250 Wilton Woods Wilton, CT 1-203=762-8481 9600
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135/27 Bitsy's Place Miami Beach FL 1-305-865-0495 1200
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135/35 The Way Out BBS Miami, FL 1-305-665-3283 1200
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363/9 Wit's End Orlanda, FL 1-305-894-0807 1200
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363/10 Midas Touch Orlando, FL 1-305-648-1133 1200
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366/38 Jolly Green Giant Shalimar, FL 1-904-651-3875 9600
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18/43 Athens Echo Athens, GA 1-404-546-7857 9600
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370/10 OnLine OPUS Athens, GA 1-404-548-0726 2400
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370/5 Athens Forum Athens, GA 1-404-546-7857 9600
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12/7 HPCUA Honolulu HI 1-808-422-8406 9600
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12/1 Aura Net Honolulu, HI 1-808-533-0190 2400
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115/761 ICS/TRIX 1 OPUS Chicago, IL 1-312-761-7887 2400
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 8 2 Jan 1989
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115/529 Elk Grove Repeater Elk Grove Vlg IL 1-312-529-1586 2400
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115/20 North Shore BBS Evanston, IL 1-312-491-2611 2400
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115/429 Chicago Business Evanston, IL 1-312-491-2611 2400
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11/109 Peoria OPUS Net Peoria, IL 1-309-691-5416 2400
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11/202 The SouthSide BBS Indianapolis, IN 1-317-882-9330 1200
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227/1 Michiana TechLine Mishawaka, IN 1-219-258-0286 9600
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227/150 The SX Project Whiting IN 1-219-659-2711 2400
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108/90 DATANET Information Syste Erlanger KY 1-606-727-3638 2400
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108/50 The ZOO BBS Independence, KY 1-606-283-2040 2400
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321/109 Pioneer Valley PCUG-1 Amherst, MA 1-413-256-1037 9600
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321/201 Mountain Top Dalton, MA 1-413-684-2886 2400
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321/202 Jones' Nose Great Barringto MA 1-413-243-0034 9600
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321/203 VETLink #1 Pittsfield, MA 1-413-443-6313 2400
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109/722 Ronnie's Roadies BBS Camp Springs MD 1-301-736-0135 1200
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109/648 Falcon's Rock College Park, MD 1-301-345-7459 2400
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13/29 Berkshire Board Essex, MD 1-301-574-1984 9600
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13/33 Avi-Technic Lutherville, MD 1-301-252-0717 9600
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13/30 The Futurists BBS Perry Hall, MD 1-301-529-0716 9600
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261/628 Liberty Hall Reisterstown, MD 1-301-833-8933 2400
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261/628.1 Systemhouse Link Reisterstown, MD 1-301-833-8933 2400
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109/717 The Tin Badge BBS Silver Spring, MD 1-301-589-2016 1200
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1/214 Region 14 Echo Coor Minneapolis, MN 1-612-377-3398 2400
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1/314 Software Dist Minneapolis, MN 1-612-377-3469 2400
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282/1 Midwest Echo Star Minneapolis, MN 1-612-377-3469 9600
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151/20 Metro Link Charlotte, NC 1-704-541-8626 2400
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151/60 VMC-BBS Lewisville, NC 1-919-945-4850 2400
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151/100 NC Central Raleigh, NC 1-919-851-8460 9600
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151/1000 REDCON Raleigh, NC 1-919-859-3353 2400
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 9 2 Jan 1989
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143/99 Friend's BBS Omaha, NE 1-402-896-2669 2400
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|
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132/101 BBS Source Archive Nashua, NH 1-603-888-8179 2400
|
||
|
||
150/803 Jersey Vertex Moorestown, NJ 1-609-869-0139 2400
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|
||
15/4 NASW New Mexico Las Cruces, NM 1-505-646-2868 2400
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|
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381/401 Border Connection Santa Fe NM 1-505-678-1318 2400
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|
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107/105 NY Transfer Staten Island, NY 1-718-442-1056 2400
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||
|
||
108/105 Global Time Systems Cincinnati, OH 1-606-341-7910 2400
|
||
|
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157/1 Auer Register Cleveland, OH 1-216-883-0578 2400
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110/20 EDS Data Dayton, OH 1-513-455-2431 2400
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157/501 The PC-Key BBS Girard OH 1-216-545-9205 2400
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||
|
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157/504 The Revelstone TBBS Cleveland, OH 1-216-642-1034 9600
|
||
|
||
385/4 Info-Net Lawton, OK 1-405-357-6181 2400
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385/6 Bink's Barn Lawton, OK 1-405-357-2473 2400
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147/14 Dark Star TBBS Oklahoma City, OK 1-405-691-0863 9600
|
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|
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148/120 Genetic Research Vat Toronto ON 1-416-480-0551 2400
|
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|
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11/700 FCAU IBM Net Toronto, ON 1-416-427-0682 9600
|
||
|
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221/156 Waterloo CBCS PUBLIC Waterloo, ON 1-519-746-5020 9600
|
||
|
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221/157 Waterloo CBCS Echomail Waterloo, ON Unpublished 9600
|
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105/16 Net 105 EchoMail Hub Portland, OR 1-503-761-3003 2400
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|
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105/61 Shotgun OPUS Portland, OR 1-503-760-4521 2400
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|
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157/506 Beacon Hill OPUS Transfer, PA 1-412-962-9514 2400
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362/1 The Mines of Moria Chattanooga, TN 1-615-344-9601 2400
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||
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362/501 Coconut Telegraph Chattanooga, TN 1-615-698-4858 2400
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18/7 Flash Port Memphis TN 1-901-525-2710 2400
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18/6 The Burnout Board Memphis, TN 1-901-353-4563 2400
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130/5 CUSSNET UTA Arlington, TX 1-817-273-3966 2400
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136/200 The Chai Way II Austin, TX 1-214-358-3738 2400
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124/210 Hardwired Dallas TX 1-214-437-4075 9600
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 10 2 Jan 1989
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124/214 *CHRYSALIS* Dallas TX 1-214-895-9054 2400
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|
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124/106 CHAI Way II Dallas, TX 1-214-250-3323 9600
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124/110 Flying Dutchman Dallas, TX 1-214-642-3436 9600
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124/117 NCC-1701 Node 1 Dallas, TX 1-214-240-8821 2400
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124/117 NCC-1701 Dallas, TX 1-214-240-8821 2400
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124/14 Chrysalis Dallas, TX 1-214-985-9054 2400
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124/200 Dallas Outbound Dallas, TX 1-214-437-4075 2400
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124/201 Hardweird Dallas, TX 1-204-931-2987 2400
|
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|
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19/5 Micro Application El Paso TX 1-915-594-9738 2400
|
||
|
||
106/386 Information Center Exchan Houston TX 1-713-872-4429 2400
|
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|
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106/108 Stormy Weather I Houston, TX 1-713-644-4345 9600
|
||
|
||
106/111 Shutterbug's OPUS Houston, TX 1-713-880-4329 2400
|
||
|
||
106/113 The Opus Network Houston, TX 1-713-780-4153 2400
|
||
|
||
106/114 The Fireside Houston, TX 1-713-496-6319 2400
|
||
|
||
106/357 TMBBS Houston, TX 1-713-497-5433 2400
|
||
|
||
106/666 Anything Goes OPUS Houston, TX 1-713-997-2624 2400
|
||
|
||
106/132 Fast BBS OPUS Katy, TX 1-713-392-0093 2400
|
||
|
||
382/1 Crystal Palace Lake Travis, TX 1-512-339-8037 2400
|
||
|
||
382/14 Corona Del Mar Rockport, TX 1-512-729-7026 9600
|
||
|
||
381/201 Pro Link San Angelo, TX 1-915-944-2952 2400
|
||
|
||
387/401 Comp-U-Gen II San Antonio TX 1-512-496-9373 2400
|
||
|
||
387/601 NCOA International BBS San Antonio TX 1-512-653-0409 2400
|
||
|
||
387/800 NCOA International BBS San Antonio TX 1-800-365-6262 2400
|
||
|
||
109/604 ShanErin Alexandria, VA 1-703-941-8291 2400
|
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|
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109/639 The RENEX BBS Woodbridge, VA 1-703-494-8331 2400
|
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343/111 Lessor Puget TB Edmonds, WA 1-206-742-8067 2400
|
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|
||
343/9 Everett OPUS Everett, WA 1-206-355-1295 1200
|
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|
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138/4 PTC Net Mount Vernon, WA 1-206-757-5248 2400
|
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 11 2 Jan 1989
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1/217 Region 17 Echo Coord Puyallup, WA 1-206-848-5317 2400
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138/101 Story Board Puyallup, WA 1-206-848-5317 9600
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138/3 Puget Sound Gateway Puyallup, WA 1-206-848-9232 2400
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138/49 The Cohort Puyallup, WA 1-206-848-2646 9600
|
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138/35 US HDS Human Service Seattle, WA 1-206-442-8127 2400
|
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138/52 Burrell's Ballpark Tacoma, WA 1-206-752-4672 2400
|
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|
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139/640 Fox Valley Tech Appleton, WI 1-414-735-2513 2400
|
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|
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154/200 PC-Express Greenfield, WI 1-414-327-5300 2400
|
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|
||
|
||
FidoNews 6-01 Page 12 2 Jan 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
COLUMNS
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
RegComm - Communications From RegCon.
|
||
|
||
A very happy holiday season to you and yours from your Regional
|
||
Coordinators. May you all enjoy the best of everything and we
|
||
look forward to another year helping make FidoNet what YOU want
|
||
it to be.
|
||
|
||
It looks like we're moving ahead rapidly on the implementation of
|
||
new nodelist flags. The tentative schedule is to have a revision
|
||
out on the 23rd of December with comments and completion on or
|
||
before January 13, 1989. As soon as the new nodelist flags are
|
||
accepted we will begin implementation and hopefully the new flags
|
||
will all be in place by February 15th. Like all schedules, this
|
||
one is not cast in concrete but is the target. We will certainly
|
||
do our best to help assure that all changes are made as quickly
|
||
as possible. If there are incorrect flags listed for any node,
|
||
all flags will be stripped and that node will be listed as a
|
||
"plain vanilla" node handling mail during Zone Mail Hour only.
|
||
That will help us spot any that were missed and assure we get
|
||
them corrected quickly. We'll do our best to keep all Net
|
||
Coordinators advised as to the schedule so the changes can be
|
||
made as smoothly as possible.
|
||
|
||
The RegCon team is also implementing a method to protect the
|
||
delivery of the nodediff. This method will be a very basic one,
|
||
designed to avoid the possibility of anyone sending out a bad
|
||
nodediff to the net, either by accident or by intent. There is
|
||
also a program available in most areas named CRCNODE.EXE that
|
||
will run a quick test of the nodediff to see if the CRC is still
|
||
valid. While some feel these steps unnecessary, we have decided
|
||
that it's worth a little more work from us to help assure you get
|
||
an accurate and uncorrupted nodediff. No-one enjoys chasing all
|
||
over looking for a nodediff unnecessarily.
|
||
|
||
There has recently been a considerable amount of conversation
|
||
taking place in several conferences concerning the practice of
|
||
making private messages public without permission of the person
|
||
sending the private message. As there are several different
|
||
opinions on additions to FidoNet policy concerning messages sent
|
||
by NetMail that are `private', we would like your input on the
|
||
matter. Is private NetMail to be handled as the word intends,
|
||
"not for public or common use", or should we be more liberal and
|
||
allow open dissemination of all NetMail? Please share your
|
||
feelings on this by NetMail to your Regional Coordinator. Your
|
||
input will help us formulate the next version of FidoNet policy.
|
||
|
||
("RegComm" will be a weekly column in FidoNews and your comments
|
||
are welcome. Please address your concerns and comments via
|
||
NetMail to your Net or Regional Coordinator, you should receive
|
||
an answer within a few days. It's your net and we are in need of
|
||
your input in order for us to fairly represent you.)
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 6-01 Page 13 2 Jan 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
FidoNews 6-01 Page 14 2 Jan 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
ROGEL'S CORNER: LAPTOPS --
|
||
A LOT OF COMPUTER POWER ON THE HOOF
|
||
=============================================================
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------
|
||
| Laptops: Decisions, decision, decisions |
|
||
-------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Last year at about this time the "field" of laptop contenders
|
||
was fairly small and the prices were fairly high. In fact
|
||
the choice of laptop was fairly easy, provided you were
|
||
willing to make some big sacrifices in computing power in
|
||
order to "have one for the road".
|
||
|
||
In the July 21, 1987 issue of PC Magazine (Vol. 6, No. 13),
|
||
Paul Somerson raved about the Z-183 which "sprints along at 8
|
||
MHz". The October 27, 1987 issue of PC Magazine (Vol. 6, No.
|
||
18) recommended "for big spenders, the dazzling Zenith Z-181
|
||
or Z-183 Portable PC . . . with its 10-megabyte hard disk,
|
||
8-MHz clock speed, and remarkable 6-by 8-inch backlit
|
||
display, the Z-183 remains a heart-stopper."
|
||
|
||
Less than 6 months later, however, the Z-183 fell from grace;
|
||
this time Mr. Somerson criticized the Z-183 as, among other
|
||
shortcomings, being "a real arm-stretcher" and with a 8-MHz
|
||
speed, it "plods along with an anachronistic CMOS 8088"
|
||
(March 29, 1988 issue, Vol. 7, No. 6). What happened to it
|
||
being a "heart-stopper"? Was Mr. Somerson guilty of having a
|
||
fickle heart, did the Z-183 change for the worse, or was
|
||
there something else?
|
||
|
||
Choose door number 3: something else. That something else
|
||
was improved competition offering laptops with more speed and
|
||
more power.
|
||
|
||
Laptop computers have finally come of age. Finally convinced
|
||
that a promising market for laptops does exist, manufacturers
|
||
have been falling over themselves to get new and improved
|
||
laptops into the stream of commerce. A week does not go by
|
||
now without an announcement in the computer trade papers
|
||
about a new laptop.
|
||
|
||
No longer is this market limited to just a few companies such
|
||
as NEC, Toshiba, and Zenith. The Olivetti's, Samsung's,
|
||
Mitsubishi's, and many others are entering the fray and each
|
||
trying to outdo the others with feature-rich portables.
|
||
These features include 286, 386SX, and 386 chip technology;
|
||
substantially improved screen displays; the addition of
|
||
standard, non-proprietary expansion slots; increased RAM and
|
||
support for EMS; and larger storage capacity. If rumors are
|
||
to be believed, we may even see color screen displays in the
|
||
near future.
|
||
|
||
The consumer is the beneficiary of this increased
|
||
competition. Although choosing a laptop in today's market
|
||
will not be as easy as it was a year ago, it will be much
|
||
FidoNews 6-01 Page 15 2 Jan 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
more exciting.
|
||
|
||
I have prepared a chart, set out below, comparing various
|
||
features of some popular and/or new laptops. This chart
|
||
contains only a sampling of the many laptops presently
|
||
available. [The original chart has been substantially
|
||
modified to satisfy FidoNews' margin requirements]
|
||
|
||
In view of the prospects of an increasing number of faster
|
||
and more powerful laptops entering the market in the next
|
||
several months, anyone interested in purchasing a laptop
|
||
should use this chart as a starting point only and then keep
|
||
abreast of current laptop developments through PC Magazine
|
||
and other computer publications. Two magazines devoted to
|
||
portable computers are listed at the end of this column.
|
||
|
||
Finally, I have included a brief discussion about the variety
|
||
of screen display technology that is or may soon be available
|
||
for laptops.
|
||
|
||
|
||
* * * * *
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------
|
||
| COMPARISON OF SELECT LAPTOPS |
|
||
--------------------------------
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
MODEL Datavue Datavue Mitsubhishi
|
||
Spark Snap MP286L
|
||
1+1
|
||
============================================================
|
||
CPU 80C88 V20 286
|
||
SPEED 9.54 9.54 12
|
||
RAM 384 640 640
|
||
DRIVE 1x3.5 2x3.5 2x3.5
|
||
/720k /720k
|
||
SCRN super 10.5" 11"
|
||
blue NTN
|
||
super
|
||
BATT nicad nicad 3d party
|
||
WT 9 10 15.9
|
||
EXPANSION n/a 1/2 size 4 {proprietary}
|
||
LIST $995 $2,295 $3,195
|
||
OPTIONS 3.5 dr., 20MB, 20MB ($3,995),
|
||
BL, EL, BL super ext. 3.5" fd,
|
||
expansion or BL EL num.keypad,
|
||
chassis 1 fd/20MB add'l 2MB
|
||
combo RAM
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
MODEL NEC NEC NEC
|
||
MultiSpeed MultiSpeed MultiSpeed
|
||
EL HD
|
||
FidoNews 6-01 Page 16 2 Jan 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
============================================================
|
||
CPU V30 V30 V30
|
||
SPEED 9.54 9.54 9.54
|
||
RAM 640 640 640
|
||
|
||
DRIVE 2x3.5 2x3.5 3.5
|
||
/720k /720k /720k
|
||
20MB
|
||
SCRN super 10.5" BL
|
||
BATT nicad nicad nicad
|
||
WT 11.2 12 14
|
||
EXPANSION n/a n/a n/a
|
||
LIST $2,195 $2,495 $3,695
|
||
OPTIONS BL, EL BL
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
MODEL Toshiba Toshiba Toshiba
|
||
1000 1100+ 1200
|
||
============================================================
|
||
CPU 88 86 86
|
||
SPEED 4.77 7.16 9.54
|
||
RAM 512 640 1MB
|
||
DRIVE 3.5 2x3.5 3.5
|
||
/720k /720k
|
||
20MB
|
||
SCRN super super super
|
||
BATT nicad nicad nicad
|
||
WT 6.4 10 10.8
|
||
EXPANSION n/a n/a n/a
|
||
LIST $1,199 $2,099 $3,499
|
||
OPTIONS 640k expansion expansion
|
||
LIM/EMS, chassis chassis
|
||
/720k num.keypad
|
||
battery charger
|
||
num.keypad
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
MODEL Toshiba Toshiba Toshiba
|
||
3100/20 3200 5100
|
||
============================================================
|
||
CPU 286 286 386
|
||
SPEED 8 12 16
|
||
RAM 640 1MB 2mb
|
||
DRIVE 3.5 3.5 3.5
|
||
/720k /720k /1.44MB
|
||
20MB 40MB 40MB
|
||
SCRN gas gas gas
|
||
BATT n/a n/a n/a
|
||
WT 15 18.7 15
|
||
EXPANSION n/a n/a n/a
|
||
LIST $4,699 $5,499 $7,499
|
||
OPTIONS num.keypad expansion
|
||
FidoNews 6-01 Page 17 2 Jan 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
chassis, num.
|
||
keypad, add'l
|
||
2MB RAM
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
MODEL Zenith Zenith Zenith
|
||
181 183 SupersPort
|
||
88
|
||
============================================================
|
||
CPU 88 88 88
|
||
SPEED 8 8 8
|
||
RAM 640 640 640
|
||
EMS
|
||
DRIVE 2x3.5 3.5 2x3.5
|
||
/720k /720k /720k
|
||
10-20MB
|
||
SCRN BL BL BL
|
||
BATT nicad nicad nicad
|
||
WT 11.9 15 <12
|
||
EXPANSION n/a n/a ?
|
||
LIST $2,399 $3,599 $2.399
|
||
OPTIONS 20MB, 20MB, 20MB ($3,599)
|
||
recharger recharger
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
MODEL Zenith Zenith
|
||
SupersPort TurboSport
|
||
286 386
|
||
============================================================
|
||
CPU 286 386
|
||
SPEED 12 12
|
||
RAM 1MB 2MB
|
||
EMS EMS
|
||
DRIVE 3.5 3.5
|
||
/1.4MB /720k
|
||
20MB or 1.4MB
|
||
40MB
|
||
SCRN BL "Page
|
||
white"
|
||
BATT nicad nicad
|
||
WT <12 25
|
||
EXPANSION ? ?
|
||
LIST $4,999 $7,999
|
||
OPTIONS 40MB ($5,599) 2,400
|
||
modem($8,499)
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
NOTE REGARDING ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMS USED
|
||
===========================================
|
||
BL = Backlit supertwist screen display (see below)
|
||
EL = electroluminescent backlit supertwist screen
|
||
FidoNews 6-01 Page 18 2 Jan 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
display (see below)
|
||
Expansion = IBM standard / nonproprietary expansion slots
|
||
Fd = floppy disk drive
|
||
Gas = gas plasma
|
||
Nicad = nickel cadmium battery [as opposed to lead
|
||
acid]
|
||
Page white = Zenith's new display technology; see
|
||
discussion of fluorescent backlighting below
|
||
Super = supertwist screen (see below)
|
||
SCRN = screen
|
||
|
||
* * * * *
|
||
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------
|
||
|Laptop screen technologies |
|
||
-----------------------------
|
||
|
||
1. Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
|
||
|
||
a. General
|
||
Like the technology used on watches and
|
||
calculators, the LCD has the advantage of being
|
||
lightweight and consuming little battery power.
|
||
Its disadvantages include poor
|
||
contrast/readability.
|
||
|
||
b. Supertwist
|
||
i. non-backlit
|
||
The screen is twisted so that it will reflect
|
||
light in all directions and not just straight
|
||
ahead.
|
||
|
||
ii. backlit
|
||
By adding light to the supertwist screen,
|
||
readability is improved by at the expense of
|
||
greater battery power consumption.
|
||
|
||
(1) Electroluminescent (EL)
|
||
The screen, containing phosphor, glows
|
||
when powered.
|
||
|
||
(2) Fluorescent
|
||
Small tubes provide the backlighting.
|
||
Slightly more battery power is used than
|
||
with the electroluminescent screens.
|
||
Examples include Datavue's amber gaslight
|
||
and, apparently, Zenith's newest laptop
|
||
entry, the TurbosPort 386, featuring
|
||
black characters on a white screen. This
|
||
display, which Zenith calls its "page
|
||
white" display, is the product of an
|
||
extra layer of polarizing material which
|
||
filters out blue light from the screen.
|
||
|
||
2. Neutralized Twisted Nematic (NTN)
|
||
FidoNews 6-01 Page 19 2 Jan 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
Light is used to increase the screen's contrast ratio,
|
||
resulting in a black on white image. Mitsubishi's new
|
||
MP286L with an 11-inch cold cathode tube (CCT) screen
|
||
and black characters on a white background (with
|
||
reversible screen colors), which Mitsubishi claims can
|
||
be read in all light conditions, is an excellent example
|
||
of this new technology.
|
||
|
||
3. Gas Plasma
|
||
|
||
A flat panel non-LCD screen. Each screen pixel is on or
|
||
off, providing a high contrast ration but requiring
|
||
greater power. Toshiba's high-end laptops use this type
|
||
of technology.
|
||
|
||
4. Active Matrix
|
||
|
||
A transistor is assigned to each screen pixel, resulting
|
||
in a contrast equivalent to a backlit LCD but without
|
||
the backlighting. Apparently the screen becomes
|
||
unusable if any one transistor ceases to operate.
|
||
According to *DataGram*, this technology is being
|
||
considered by several laptop manufacturers but is not
|
||
presently available.
|
||
|
||
* * * * *
|
||
For a complimentary subscription to Datavue's interesting
|
||
periodical entitled: * DataGram: The Exciting World of Laptop
|
||
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 21 2 Jan 1989
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YACK
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Yet Another Complicated Komment
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by Steven K. Hoskin
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( STEVE HOSKIN at 1:128/31 )
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Episode 20: Culture
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Reading the IFNA EchoMail conference is good fuel for FidoNews
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columns and articles. There's a lot of people out there, all
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with ideas, a lot of discussions, generally pertinent to FidoNet
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and, therefore, FidoNews. There's the occasional humor, too,
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which I personally find a pleasant relief from all the serious
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talk (and yell) that goes on out there.
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Something is becoming clear to me, however. IFNA, SYSOP, and
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many other important EchoMail Conferences go all over FidoNet; as
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it should be. So does FidoNews. But FidoNews, and a great many
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of the international conferences, are usually very American; de-
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signed, written, subscribed to and supported by Americans. This
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isn't in itself a bad thing. I'm American and certainly I am
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proud of my country, hence why I serve in its armed forces; and
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of course I agree that we've done some rather odd, sometimes
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stupid, things in our short 202 years here.
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But we are not the world. And FidoNet doesn't stay in the United
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States anymore. It hasn't for a long time. And there's a senti-
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ment out there that Americans are simply not welcome in some in-
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ternational conferences that are otherwise open to members of any
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race, color, creed or national origin.
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Why? We're seen as arrogant, and perhaps rightly so. We are
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quite accumstomed to being free to do just about anything we darn
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well please over here, and often neglect to realize that other
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cultures do not always afford the same freedoms. There are
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places in the world where something you say can be cause for
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death - by law. That is one of the more morbid conditions, but
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is an indication of how carefully we must tread if we are going
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to cross international and cultural boundaries. Usually our
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trespasses are not across "blood lines" of death, but rather of
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"social lines". There are subjects that simply are not accept-
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able discussion material in some places. It's considered to be
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in bad taste.
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Americans have, in the past 50 years or so, been increasingly un-
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interested in cultural development; education in other cultures.
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Because of this we are insulting people worldwide, usually unin-
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tentionally and often unknowingly. But THEY are noticing it.
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Freedom of speech is great, but open-mindedness is, too.
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 22 2 Jan 1989
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NOTICES
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The Interrupt Stack
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24 Aug 1989
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Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
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5 Oct 1989
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20th Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
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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 FidoNet node 1:1/1.
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Fido 12i Opus 1.03b TBBS 2.1*
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QuickBBS 2.03 TPBoard 4.2 TComm/TCommNet 3.2
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Lynx 1.10 Phoenix 1.3 RBBS 1.71C
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Network Node List Other
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Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
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Dutchie 2.90b EditNL 4.00 ARC 5.32
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SEAdog 4.10 MakeNL 2.12 ARCmail 1.1
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BinkleyTerm 2.00 Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00
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D'Bridge 1.10 XlatList 2.86 TPB Editor 1.21
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FrontDoor 2.0 XlaxNode 2.22 TCOMMail 1.4*
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PRENM 1.40 XlaxDiff 2.22 TMail 8812*
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ParseList 1.30* UFGATE 1.02*
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GROUP 2.04*
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EMM 1.40
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* Recently changed
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Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
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reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
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all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 23 2 Jan 1989
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COMMITTEE REPORTS
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IFNA Treasurer's Report
|
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December, 1988
|
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Steve Bonine 115/777
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IFNA Treasurer's report for December, 1988
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RECIEPTS & DEPOSITS
|
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Membership fees 100.00
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Orders for publications 20.00
|
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TOTAL RECEIPTS $120.00
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DISBURSEMENTS
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Postage 8.75
|
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Professional services (Marc Rubin) 144.50
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TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS 153.25
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EXCESS RECEIPTS OVER DISBURSEMENTS (33.25)
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ADD BEGINNING BALANCE 6041.35
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BALANCE IN ACCOUNT 6008.10
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Full year-to-date IFNA financial data is available for file-
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request from 1/11 using the name of IFNA$.
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FidoNews 6-01 Page 24 2 Jan 1989
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OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION
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|
||
Hal DuPrie 1:101/106 Chairman of the Board
|
||
Bob Rudolph 1:261/628 President
|
||
Matt Whelan 3:3/1 Vice President
|
||
Ray Gwinn 1:109/639 Vice President - Technical Coordinator
|
||
David Garrett 1:103/501 Secretary
|
||
Steve Bonine 1:115/777 Treasurer
|
||
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IFNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
|
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DIVISION AT-LARGE
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|
||
10 Courtney Harris 1:102/732? Don Daniels 1:107/210
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11 Bill Allbritten 1:11/301 Hal DuPrie 1:101/106
|
||
12 Bill Bolton 3:711/403 Mark Grennan 1:147/1
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||
13 Rick Siegel 1:107/27 Steve Bonine 1:115/777
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||
14 Ken Kaplan 1:100/22 Ted Polczyinski 1:154/5
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||
15 Larry Kayser 1:104/739? Matt Whelan 3:3/1
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16 Ivan Schaffel 1:141/390 Robert Rudolph 1:261/628
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17 Rob Barker 1:138/34 Steve Jordan 1:102/2871
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18 Christopher Baker 1:135/14 Bob Swift 1:140/24
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19 David Drexler 1:19/1 Larry Wall 1:15/18
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2 Henk Wevers 2:500/1 David Melnik 1:107/233
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