FidoNews · Vol 3, No 27 · 14 July 1986
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Editor in Chief: Thom Henderson
Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
FidoNews is the official newsletter of the International FidoNet
Association, and is published weekly by SEAdog Leader, node 1/1.
You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
FidoNews. Article submission standards are contained in the file
FNEWSART.DOC, available from node 1/1.
The contents of the articles contained here are not our
responsibility, nor do we necessarily agree with them.
Everything here is subject to debate.
Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL
Insider's Joke
2. ARTICLES
Silicon Mountain Fido Conference
War in the Falklands
Mail Order Problems
Review of the MultiTech MultiModem 223
Rovermsg update
3. COLUMNS
Hard Disk Usage and Management Tips, Part 3
Computer Industry Spotlight
Job Market Research Part II
4. FOR SALE
Entertainment Software for your PC!
Public Domain Software Library Sale!!
5. NOTICES
The Interrupt Stack
CARTOON: Gruesome George, by Bruce White
Net 105 & 146 merged!!
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Silicon Mountain Fido Conference
Sponsored by
The Colorado Springs PC Users Group
and
The International Fido Net Association
to be held from
August 14 to 17, 1986
in Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Silicon Mountain Fido Conference will take place from August
14 through August 17, 1986, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the
Colorado Springs Hilton Inn. Register as soon as possible for
the conference, by mailing in the registration form and by making
room reservations at the Hilton Inn. Registration may be made on
line at any of the Fido Conference Coordinator BBS numbers:
303-578-0860 (1/10 outgoing)
303-596-6232 (1/10 Incoming)
Information will also be available at the COSUG BBS:
303-635-5468 (128/13)
The registration form will be circulated in a couple of days.
To register through FidoMail, please send a message to us at
1/10, and follow up by sending a hard copy of the registration
form by mail or send a file with the extension ".REG". Please
put a variation of your name on the file and tell us the name you
have given your registration form in your message. If we get
multiple files with the same name, it could a problem for us.
Please follow up by making a guaranteed reservation at the Hilton
Inn. To guarantee your room for late arrival, the Hilton
requires a credit card number (Master Card, Visa, American
Express, Carte Blanche, Diners Club and Discover are accepted) or
a deposit. Without a guarantee, they will not hold it past
6:00 PM of the arrival date. When you call in your reservation,
be sure to tell the person taking it that you are with the
"Silicon Mountain Fido Conference" or the "Fido Conference" or
"International Fido Sysops" to be sure that your reservation is
at the group rate.
The room rates are as follows:
Single or Double (one bed or two) $60.00 per night
Triple occupancy $75.00 per night
Quad occupancy $90.00 per night
Parlor $120.00 per night
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Because the Hilton does not care how you share your accomo-
dations, some of you may wish to double up and split the room
charges. You may be able to find someone in your local net who
also wishes to share. Or send a message around FidoNet for
someone to share with.
The address and telephone number of the Hilton Inn is:
505 Popes Bluff Trail
Colorado Springs, CO.
303-598-7656
The Hilton Inn is located at Exit 146 (Garden of the Gods Road)
off of I-25 in northern Colorado Springs.
Other motels in the immediate vicinity (within walking distance)
include "Howard Johnson's", "Ramada Inn", and "Econolodge."
Within a short driving distance, there are many other motels,
which may be cheaper than these. Because we are getting a
special rate, you cannot expect to save much by staying at a
place other than the Hilton, unless you have your own trans-
portation.
To be sure that a room is reserved for you, we need a message
from you that you are coming as soon as possible. A large block
of rooms has been reserved for us, but unless we have your
reservation by August 1 at the latest, we can not guarantee you a
room at the conference rate. Because it is the height of the
tourist season, you will have to compete with the tourists for a
motel room. I have to give the Hilton an estimate of the number
of rooms we need by July 1, and a room list is due August 1 at
the latest. Although you can probably still find lodging after
August 1, it may not be at the Hilton.
The deadline for reservations for the banquets and other group
meals is 48 hours in advance. All parties and receptions will be
cash bar.
We have set a conference fee of $60.00 for the full conference.
If you wish to attend Saturday only, the conference fee would be
$30.00. The rate for full time students is $35.00 and $20.00,
respectively. Registration after August 1 will be an additional
$10.00. In addition you will want to attend the banquet on
Friday night, which will be an additional $15.00 per plate, and
the luncheon on Saturday, which will be $7.50 per plate. The
cost of the Saturday dinner at the Flying W Ranch will be
announced later. It will include transportation by bus to and
from the Hilton Inn.
We are working on a special trip up Pikes Peak by cog wheel
railway at a cost to be announced later. The stated meal prices
include taxes and service charges. The amount of the conference
fee is based on what is needed to recover the conference
expenses. In addition we hope you will see fit to send a
voluntary donation to IFNA, which is cosponsoring the conference
and which will be the primary beneficiary of the conference.
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The address to send your registrations to is:
Silicon Mountain Fido Conference
Attn: George Wing
507 Mining Exchange Building
8 South Nevada Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Voice: 303-635-4716 (weekdays)
FidoNet 1/10
Please pay your conference fees by check or money order to
"Silicon Mountain Fido Conference." By July we will be able to
accept MasterCard and Visa over the phone. Please do not send
credit card numbers through FidoMail.
We are trying to work out having computers with modems and phone
lines available for you to call your board and check to see what
E.T. did to you when he used your board to phone home while you
were in Colorado Springs. Suggestions on how to handle the
billing for telephone calls are needed.
Please check for the best deals on air fare. We have a
conference discount arranged through Continental Air Lines, which
feeds through Denver. Jack Armit of Globe Travel in Colorado
Springs (303-473-4151) can help you with travel arrangements.
Call him if you are flying on Continental. Call him anyway.
Other carriers feed direct into Colorado Springs without
requiring a plane change in Denver as does Continental in many
cases. Fares to Denver are about the same as to Colorado. Check
it out and let me know what kind of deals you are getting, so I
can pass the information on. The sooner you make your
reservation, the better the deal you will get.
We are looking for persons to help with the discussions of
DoubleDOS, EchoMail, and various other topics. Suggestions are
welcome. We thank those persons who have already volunteered
their time. Ken Kaplan will have the final say on panel members
and speakers. Send us a message at 1/10 with a copy to Ken 1/0.
See you in Colorado Springs in August!
George Wing, Coordinator
Silicon Mountain Fido Conference Coordinator
1/10
Ken Kaplan and Ben Baker
The International FidoNet Administrators
1/0
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Charles Grisamore
Memphis Tennessee
Fido 123/7
War in the Falklands
While scanning the files on a long distance board I
sometimes call, I spotted a program called FALKLANDS.BAS. After
downloading, I found it was a sophisticated war game involving
ship and troop deployment as well as air cover and even ship
based artillery. The only problem was that there weren't any
instructions!
The commands are pretty obvious (they are for the most part
always visible on the screen and make extensive use of the
function keys) however when entering ship and troop movements you
must enter the sector number to move into. Without some sort of
sector map it's impossible to ascertain your position relative to
the Falklands or anything else. Has anybody got a DOC file for
this program?
Another issue; is this program user supported? The startup
screen identifies it as "War in the Falklands (C) 1983 by Robert
Alter version 1.5". The copyright notice doesn't by itself mean
much. Most programmers I know put such a message on EVERY
program. However the absence of a Freeware/User supported
message makes me wonder about this program. I've seen it on a
number of bulletin boards around the country (but then so are a
LOT of pirated programs).
I'd like to know something about this particular game. I
either need the instructions or that it's pirated and I need to
get rid of it. Please answer via FidoMail to node 123/7.
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David Kaplan, 142/0
Mail Order Problems
I would like to advise all FidoNews readers of a complaint that I
have registered with the Illinois Department of Consumer
Protection, Office of the Attorney General, against the PC
Network, of 320 West Ohio St., Chicago, Il. 60610.
On April 22, 1986, I ordered a copy of R:Base 5000, in order to
take advantage of Microrim's 2 for 1 sale if registered by June
30, 1986. My package did not arrive until May 14, and then it was
used, with handwritten notes in the box, and the diskette seal
broken.
I immediately returned the merchandise for a "priority"
replacement, which did not arrive until June 23.
They have refused several requests to reimburse me telephone and
return postage costs of $14.39 for the first package.
With Microrim's deadline for registration at hand I cannot return
my used copy of R:Base, and thus am forced to retain used
merchandise, as well as the additional telephone and return
postage costs.
I most certainly will not do business with them in the future.
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Tim Rand, 100/255
MultiTech MultiModem 223
Review
I have been running my Fido (AmCross Central - 100/255) off of a
MultiTech MultiModem 224 for about the last month. This modem is
a 300/1200/2400 baud device that emulates the Hayes 1200 baud
modem with 2400 baud extensions.
Here are the pertinent setup items for Fido use:
1. If you run out of a PBX or use a long-distance service and
need to dial with pause codes, open the cover and set switch
2-3 to UP. This sets Wait-for-dial-tone dialing. This may be
important to those of you who dial out through MCI, Sprint or
other non-1-plus type services. Replace the cover.
2. Set the switches on switch 1 as viewed through the bottom of
the modem (really nice feature - no cover to remove for most
users) to:
1-1 UP DTR Normal
1-2 UP Verbose (word) responses **
1-3 DOWN Enable command responses
1-4 UP Enable command character echo **
1-5 DOWN Disable auto answer **
1-6 UP Carrier Detect and Data Set Ready normal
1-7 UP RJ11 (if running in an office set DOWN)
1-8 DOWN Enable command mode
** Fido overides these items anyway. I set them this
way so my modem doesn't get answered when Fido is not
up! and so things work better for most comm programs.
3. Fido takes care of the rest except for one thing. Create
yourself a FIDOMDM.BBS file with this one command in it:
AT&Q1
This command tells the MultiModem to select the Hayes 2400
response codes. This is important because Fido doesn't know
how to handle the 6 or "DIAL TONE" response that the 224
usually gives.
4. Your RUNBBS.BAT command to run Fido should not specify any
modem type (ie default to 1/J). I guess others might work (eg
a 5/J or 11/J) but why screw with it.
The MultiModem supports a command mode setting to change the
option set in switch #2-3 above. That is the ATB command. One
item that is NOT documented in the manual is that the newer Hayes
command ATX4 which sets both Wait-for-dial-tone and extended
results IS supported and does work. The modem also supports the
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"W" in the ATD dial command so you can do an ATDT 9W999-9999.
This also is not documented.
At $389 this modem is an excellent value. The modem lists for
more, but most dealers are selling it for about $400. If you
have trouble getting it for less than $400, send me a FidoNet
message and I'll be glad to provide the name of the dealer that I
use. It has front panel switches to use a desk phone to dial out
or manual answer at either 300/1200/2400, the speaker has a pot
(screwdriver adjust-BOOOH) to set the volume, and it has the
right amount of lights on the front. The modem has been rock
steady and does what it should. I have run with a number of
different comm programs in addition to Fido and had no problem at
all.
The modem has a number of neat features that are NOT Hayes
compatible. The first of these is the ability to store 9 phone
numbers and redial them with a short-hand dial command ATD Nx,
which would dial number x in the list. ATL lists them. This IS
in conflict with the newer Hayes 1200s which use ATL for loudness
of the speaker. ATL5 is a neat command. It lists the current
settings of the E, Q, V, and some of the & commands. This is
nice to see what a program does when it sets modem parameters.
The last real feature of this modem is the A: command. This
command is a "Demon Dialer" type command that will re-dial until
a connect.
The modem is built as is typical for other modems in this class,
that is with an external transformer pack-type three prong plug,
and a fairly lightweight plastic case. This model has a large
heat-sink on the bottom that gets moderately warm, but in general
the box runs very cool. One item of note is that option switches
peek through the bottom of the case. This is a very nice
convenience item, because it makes it very easy to check or
change the switches. I do wish it had the AA (autoanswer) light
on the front that my Hayes 1200 has, but that is really not a big
deal.
As to support, I did call MultiTech about the above noted
documentation omissions, and they responded that they were sorry.
These features had been added after the doc was printed. I also
had a problem with infant mortality on one of the two units I
bought. A new one was back to me within the week including
shipping time. We also have a MultiTech 1200 modem which has
provided us with excellent service and is really very Hayes
compatible. Very nice service. The folks on the phone were
knowledgeable and courteous. I would recommend a MultiTech to
anyone.
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ROVERMSG Update
by
Bob Hartman
Sysop Fido 132/101
For those of you that have been waiting a long time for the next
release of ROVERMSG, your wait is over! I have just released
revision 2.17 of ROVERMSG. This new version has the following
nasty little bugs fixed:
1. Using Rovermsg on a Rainbow with the '-c 2' switch really
works now.
2. A person with SYSOP privilege does not have to have credit to
send FidoNet mail.
3. A change made in SEAdog caused Rovermsg to not print the first
character following a soft carriage return. This is now
fixed.
This version also does not create its own ROVERLST.SYS file
unless there is not a NODELIST.SYS file of revision 5 (which I
believe is only in Fido 11w, but it might be in 11v also). This
change will save approximately 100K in disk space.
Finally, the most important announcement of all -SOURCE CODE is
available! If you register your copy of Rovermsg for $15, you
are entitled to free FidoNet support (answering questions, etc.).
For $25 additional (total of $40), I will send you all of the
source code for Rovermsg. The code is written for the MANX Aztec
C compiler, but if you have another compiler the changes should
not be too bad to make.
As always, the latest version of Rovermsg can be downloaded from
Fido 132/101. I am now running SEAdog, so if you want to request
it via SEAdog mail, let me know and I will set you up to have the
file held for you to poll.
Bob Hartman
Sysop Fido 132/101
The UN*X Gateway
and Home of Rovermsg
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Taking Advantage of Your PC's Hard Disk:
Part III, CONFIG.SYS and the Virtual Disk
Barry Gordon
New York Personal Computer, Inc.
There are some simple things you can do to enhance the
performance of your hard drive. Creating a CONFIG.SYS file and a
virtual disk can give you added power and speed in working on
your PC by reconfiguring your operating system and Random Access
Memory (RAM).
The CONFIG.SYS File
Another file that is useful in the root directory is the
CONFIG.SYS file. It's a collection of miscellany to modify the
way the PC system works. You may want to try a CONFIG.SYS file
consisting of three lines:
BREAK=ON
FILES=16
BUFFERS=8
The BREAK command allows you to interrupt the system more easily
should you wish to terminate the execution of a program.
The FILES command allows DOS to juggle more than the default of
eight active files simultaneously. This is important, because
DOS loads five files of its own, leaving you with only three.
Sixteen should give you enough to handle most any situation.
The BUFFERS command can speed up certain kinds of disk
operations. You may want to try as many as 16 or even 32 for a
20MB hard disk.
The Virtual Disk
A large internal RAM not only allows manipulation of larger files
when necessary, but gives the user access to the speed of
internal memory for processing data. Just as the hard disk
increases computing speed over the diskette drive, so internal
memory, if utilized, increases computing speed over the hard
drive. To tap the speed and power of the internal memory, you
might consider setting up a virtual disk. However, to attempt to
set up a virtual disk, you should have more than 256KB of memory
in your PC, preferably, 512KB or larger.
The virtual disk is a portion of RAM set aside to simulate a
disk. The virtual disk is referred to by the drive designation
letter following that of the system's last hard disk. Assuming a
single hard disk C:, our virtual disk becomes D:. The virtual
disk is created at startup by a program such as the VDISK command
that comes with DOS 3.0., working together with a command you
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save in your CONFIG.SYS file.
With 512KB of RAM, a reasonable virtual disk size to try is 64KB.
If you have a 640KB system, you may want to set up a virtual disk
of 192KB. I suggest leaving about 448KB of available, active RAM
to have ample memory for DOS to do its work.
A virtual disk of even 64KB can do wonders. It can also be
effectively larger by specifying the smallest possible sector
size -- e.g., 128 bytes -- for the greatest possible data packing
density. Assuming VDISK.COM and 640KB of RAM, the virtual disk
specification in your CONFIG.SYS might look like this:
DEVICE=C:\VDISK
The entire CONFIG.SYS file would look like this:
BREAK=ON
FILES=16
BUFFERS=8
DEVICE=C:\VDISK.SYS 192 128 64
The SETPATH.BAT and AUTOEXEC.BAT Files Revised
What do you do with this virtual disk D: now that it is set up?
First, you can begin to take full advantage of your virtual
disk's speed by adding a statement to AUTOEXEC.BAT to transfer
the sub-directory of your most-used files to the virtual disk D:.
Your AUTOEXEC.BAT file now contains the following:
DATE
TIME
PROMPT $P$G
COPY \anyname1\*.* D:
D:SETPATH
Note that the SETPATH command must remain the last one in the
file. Next, modify the PATH command (in SETPATH.BAT) to PATH
D:\;C:\anyname2;C:\any3;C:\any4 replacing the c:\anyname1 you
formerly had in SETPATH.BAT with the root directory of your
virtual drive D:\. (Again, note that you specify complete paths,
including all drive designations, to keep the command totally
independent of what the default drive might happen to be.)
Finally, move the SETPATH.BAT file out of the root directory and
into the \anyname1 directory for automatic transfer to D:. This
allows you to execute the SETPATH command from any directory,
entering it as simply SETPATH or D:SETPATH if necessary.
The root directory on your hard drive now contains the following
files:
<IBMBIO.COM>
<IBMDOS.COM>
COMMAND.COM
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AUTOEXEC.BAT
Sub-directory Names
CONFIG.SYS
VDISK.COM (or equivalent)
Tips Concerning The Virtual Drive
Now that your PC has the virtual disk D:, you will want to keep
only your most-used files in your C:\anyname1 directory. I would
suggest you put in some DOS external command files, plus regulars
like BASIC.COM, or perhaps a few of your personal favorites, such
as PE.EXE or your word processing program. Depending on the size
of your virtual disk, you might even wish to add some non-
executable, but nonetheless frequently used, files that you would
like to have accessible from any sub-directory.
All of these would presumably reside permanently in your
C:\anyname1 directory so that they transfer automatically to D:
at system startup. The one thing you must not forget is that
your virtual disk D: actually resides in RAM and not on a real
disk drive. I suggest you do not store anything in your virtual
drive that is not stored in a file on your hard disk or on a
diskette, because whenever you turn your PC off or whenever the
power fails, everything in your virtual disk is cleared.
Summary
A brief summary of what the various files might look like is
given below:
The Root Directory
<IBMBIO.COM>
<IBMDOS.COM>
COMMAND.COM
AUTOEXEC.BAT
Sub-directory Names
CONFIG.SYS
VDISK.COM (or equivalent)
CONFIG.SYS File
BREAK=ON
FILES=16
BUFFERS=8
DEVICE=C:\VDISK.SYS 192 128 64
The numercial values in the DEVICE command will vary depending on
the size you wish your virtual disk to be.
AUTOEXEC.BAT File
DATE
TIME
COPY C:\anyname 1\*.* D:
PROMPT $P$G
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D:SETPATH
The D: shown above presumes that you don't have a second hard
disk attached to your PC. With two hard disks, the virtual disk
would be E:.
SETPATH.BAT File
PATH D:\;C:\any1;C:\any2\;C:any3;...
That's it. My experience shows that a hard disk with large
internal RAM, set up more or less as recommended here, can be a
real pleasure to operate.
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William/Eunhee Hunter
Fido 109/626
Computer Industry Spotlight on:
AUTO-TROL TECHNOLOGY CORP. -- Organized in 1962, Auto-Trol
manufactures and integrates CAD/CAM computer equipment. Openings
exist in engineering, sales, data processing, and finance. New
employees undergo classroom instruction, as well as on-the-job
training. Employees can also take advantage of special skills
courses.
Contact: Jim Wilkes, Director, Human Resources, Auto-Trol
Technology Corp., 12500 N. Washington, Denver, CO 80233.
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William/Eunhee Hunter
Fido 109/626
THE FIRST STEP -- CHOOSING AN INDUSTRY
As your no doubt aware -- particularly if you're an
individual who has already been employed several years or more --
the U.S. job market is really many job markets, in fact thousands
of them. But for purposes of job hunting, it makes sense to
think of "job market" and "industry" as roughly synonymous.
Given this definition, your initial problem is to decide which
industry (i.e., job market) best suits your qualifications and
needs. Obviously, having a degree in, say, business
administration or a computer specialization, qualifies you for
positions in many industries -- and yet, your work experience,
career path, and life style will depend greatly on which industry
you accept employment with, and hence become part of. An
accounting position in the telephone industry, for example, will
probably lead you in a much different direction than one in the
insurance industry, consulting, or federal government. Thus you
should consider that, in accepting a job, you're also accepting,
and becoming part of an industry. The chances are good that
you'll remain with that industry in come capacity throughout your
working life.
Even so, are you really familiar with the many industries
which compromise the U.S. economy? Are you familiar with the
many occupations within those industries which your education or
experience may qualify you for? If not -- as is the case with
most people -- then your job hunting effort must start with
INDUSTRY RESEARCH. You need to gain a reasonably clear
perspective on contemporary events and conditions in each of the
industries which may hold opportunities for you. Without this
basic understanding, you simply have no idea where to focus your
job hunting effort.
The following reference materials (among others) will help
you locate current articles and books on any industry you care to
research:
ACCESS: THE SUPPLEMENTARY GUIDE TO PERIODICALS. Syracuse,
New York: Gaylord Bros.,Inc., 1975 to date.
READERS GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. New York: The H. W.
Wilson Co., 1905 to date.
BUSINESS PERIODICALS INDEX. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co.,
1958 to date.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE BULLETIN. New York
Public Affairs Information Service. 1915 to date.
GUIDE TO AMERICAN DIRECTORIES. Detroit, Michigan: Gale
Research Company. (Note: This is the most comprehensive
key to the existence of directories covering business,
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industrial, professional, and commercial fields. It
will lead you to an unbelievable range of indispensible
information.)
Winchell, Constance, M., GUIDE TO REFERENCE BOOKS. Chicago:
American Library Association. (Note: When you don't
know where to look or have exhausted other resources,
"Winchell" is the place to try.)
Next article will present THE NEXT STEP - RESEARCHING
SELECTED COMPANIES.
Distributed via FidoNet BBS by NOVA_WEG Fido 109/626, W.E.G.
Systems, P.O. Box 5072, Springfield, VA 22150. Permission is
hereby given to reprint the contents of this article providing
the contents remain unchanged.
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FOR SALE
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ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE FOR YOUR PC!
SUPERDOTS! KALAH!
Professional quality games include PASCAL source! From the
author of KALAH Version 1.6, SuperDots, a variation of the
popular pencil/paper DOTS game, has MAGIC and HIDDEN DOT
options. KALAH 1.7 is an African strategy game requiring
skill to manipulate pegs around a playing board. Both games
use the ANSI Escape sequences provided with the ANSI.SYS
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the DEC Rainbow. Only $19.95 each or $39.95 for both
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These games have been written in standard TURBO-PASCAL and
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CPM/86, and PDP-11. Other disk formats are available, but
minor customization may be required.
BSS Software
P.O. Box 3827
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
For every order placed, a donation will be made to the Fido
coordinators! Also, if you have a previous version of KALAH
and send me a donation, a portion of that donation will also
be sent to the coordinators. When you place an order, BE
CERTAIN TO MENTION WHERE YOU SAW THE AD since it also
appears in PC Magazine and Digital Review.
Questions and comments can be sent to:
Brian Sietz at Fido 107/17
(609) 429-6630 300/1200/2400 baud
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Now available from Micro Consulting Associates!!
Public Domain collection - 550+ "ARC" archives - 20+ megs of
software and other goodies, and that's "archived" size! When
unpacked, you get approximately 28 megabytes worth of all kinds
of software, from text editors to games to unprotection schemes
to communications programs, compilers, interpreters, etc... Over
55 DS/DD diskettes!!
This collection is the result of more than 15 months of intensive
downloads from just about 150 or more BBS's and other sources,
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convenience. Starting a Bulletin Board System? Want to add on
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is the answer!!!
To order the library, send $100 (personal or company check,
postal money order or company purchase order) to:
Micro Consulting Associates, Fido 103/511
Post Office Box 4296
200-1/2 E. Balboa Boulevard
Balboa, Ca. 92661-4296
Please allow 3 weeks for delivery of your order.
Note: No profit is made from the sale of the Public Domain
software in this collection. The price is applied entirely to
the cost of downloading the software over the phone lines,
running a BBS to receive file submissions, and inspecting,
cataloguing, archiving and maintaining the files. Obtaining this
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using commercial phone access would cost you much more than what
we charge for the service...
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NOTICES
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The Interrupt Stack
20 Jul 1986
St. Louis Area Sysops Meeting, to be held at Baker's Acre.
Net 100 sysops please contact Ben Baker at 100/76 for details
and directions.
14 Aug 1986
Start of the International FidoNet Conference, Colorado
Springs, Colorado. Contact George Wing at node 1/10 for
details. Get your reservations in NOW! We'll see you there!
24 Aug 1989
Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
If you have something which you would like to see on this
calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1/1.
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Gruesome George by Bruce White, 109/612
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| Super--with this new |
| multitasking program |
| the computer can do |
|\ three things at once! |
| \ / |
| Very nice, dear. Now / ____\__ |
| how about your doing / |_| \ |
| some multitasking _____ |\ |
| around the house. | _ | | |
| ______ | |_| | | |
| __(______)_|_____|___ | |
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| ______ || || | |
| \ {} / || || | |
|(c) 1986 bw \__/ ||-----------------||__|__|
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Justin Norman
Northwest Super Fido (#105/2)
Formerly 146/0,1
For quite a while now many people have been talking about
merging networks 105 (Portland area) and 146 (LNA Net) into one.
So at the local area system operators meeting held last week we
went ahead and combined. Not a large task indeed, in fact, the
whole process took about 3 minutes from the time of the decision
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to the assignment of new node numbers. But here is what's new:
New Number Board Name Old Number
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105/2 Northwest Super Fido 146/0,1
105/3 Dim Sum 146/5
105/9 S.I.M. NoChange (MO:) 146/6
-- Engineers 1 (Down) 146/2
105/098 Private 146/098
105/099 Private 146/099
The Engineers 1 was taken down for reconstruction. This
shouldn't be too confusing at all. The changes listed here will
be effective immediatly.
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