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