PROTOCOL: ALT CONNECT 2400 CBBS(R) 4.0.3b 06/19/93 22:25:14 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 230079; next msg =46338; 376 active msgs. Prev. call 06/15/93 @ 23:12, next msg was 46332 Recording logon for next time. Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to ab >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 5 KILLED. 11 SUMMARY. 26 06/15/93,23:12:33,230038,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,1 06/16/93,01:12:01,230039,2,ALEX ZELL,, 06/16/93,09:09:12,230040,2,CLIFF BARBER,Palos Park,3 06/16/93,09:59:53,230041,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1 06/16/93,10:05:20,230042,2,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,,4 06/16/93,12:37:44,230043,2,ANDY SHAPIRO,,1 06/16/93,13:02:06,230044,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1 06/16/93,15:41:02,230045,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#46332,8 06/16/93,21:10:07,230046,2,DON PIVEN,,5 06/16/93,23:19:44,230047,2,BILL MATTSON,,1 06/16/93,23:28:09,230048,2,BENJAMIN COHEN,, E#46333, E#46334,16 06/17/93,00:19:25,230049,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,4 06/17/93,00:38:49,230050,2,BENJAMIN COHEN,, E#46335,5 06/17/93,09:57:48,230051,2,GRANT KILLEY,, E#46336,13 06/17/93,10:33:04,230052,2,DAVID HAGEN,,3 06/17/93,10:56:50,230053,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,3 06/17/93,11:11:15,230054,2,DENNIS STAHL,,2 06/17/93,12:59:26,230055,2,DENNIS STAHL,,0 06/17/93,14:17:57,230056,2,ANDY SHAPIRO,, E#46337,6 06/17/93,14:31:16,230057,2,STEVE RYAN,,2 06/17/93,14:53:53,230058,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1 06/17/93,19:36:17,230059,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,2 06/17/93,19:52:39,230060,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,17 06/17/93,20:00:09,230061,2,MARTY DIPPEL,,15 06/17/93,22:01:48,230062,2,JOSEPH SKOM,,7 06/17/93,22:36:43,230063,2,PHIL SCHUMAN,,2 06/18/93,00:22:27,230064,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,1 06/18/93,00:26:16,230065,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,1 06/18/93,01:15:16,230066,2,JIM EATON,,4 06/18/93,06:53:31,230067,2,STEVE GREGSON,milton keynes/ england, >Help: XMODEM,9 06/18/93,11:03:13,230068,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,0 06/18/93,11:49:22,230069,2,GARY MCCOY,,8 06/18/93,14:27:30,230070,2,ANDY SHAPIRO,,1 06/18/93,16:57:29,230071,2,PETE JONES,,1 06/18/93,18:30:51,230072,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,1 06/18/93,22:36:13,230073,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,4 06/18/93,23:38:22,230074,2,BILL MATTSON,,1 06/19/93,00:51:51,230075,2,CLIFF SHARP,,27 06/19/93,09:55:33,230076,2,RICH FOSTER,,3 06/19/93,14:21:04,230077,2,BILL MATTSON,,1 06/19/93,18:33:22,230078,2,JOSEPH SKOM,,1 06/19/93,22:25:18,230079,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 46332X 06/16/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => NORB DEMBINSKI: "R/IBM SOUND BOARD" 46333 06/16/93 BENJAMIN COHEN => ANDY SHAPIRO: "R/LAPTOPS" 46334 06/16/93 BENJAMIN COHEN => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/COMPUTER CHRONICLES" 46335 06/17/93 BENJAMIN COHEN => ANDY SHAPIRO: "R/LAPTOPS" 46336 06/17/93 GRANT KILLEY => ALL: "PROGRAMMER WANTED" 46337 06/17/93 ANDY SHAPIRO => BENJAMIN COHEN: "PS" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. No msg 46332 Msg 46333 is 22 line(s) on 06/16/93 from BENJAMIN COHEN to ANDY SHAPIRO re: R/LAPTOPS The only negative comment I have is that when I was asked to help a friend in the Phillipines get a replacement battery and floppy drive for his old Toshiba laptop (dual floppy - this was a few years ago, at least - Toshiba wanted an arm and a leg for each and both were back-ordered! There was a discount for exchange of the old disk drive, but only if you gave them the old one at the time you ordered the new one. Mind you, this is for a disk drive they admitted hadn't been in stock in the US in over two months! I can't say what the current status of parts availability is. I say this having just purchased a T1000 w/768K RAM card, one floppy, DOS 2.11, 512K base RAM. The RAM card becomes "hard RAM" (a non-volatile RAM disk), holds ProComm, NewSweep, DTA, SmartKey and VDE, leaving about 300K or so free. With NO floppy access at all it runs over FIVE hours on a charge (continuous). Using the floppy at all reduces that somewhat, but with VDE in RAM disk there's no need to use it. The system does not do an automatic shut-off (unlike my Epson Genevas; which also get >10 hours per charge), but it's quite serviceable and it DOES have a floppy drive instead of a tape microcassette drive! Say, there's a note in the latest Mor-Atlanta newsletter from a guy in the SF Bay area who has a Kaypro with 2 Meg RAM disk, 4 floppies, and also a Geneva that he'strying to find a home for! Msg 46334 is 05 line(s) on 06/16/93 from BENJAMIN COHEN to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/COMPUTER CHRONICLES 1979? I think they had the right date; at least when I heard the question I KNEW that they had the right date. Randal's right; the ignorance of the panel on some points was amazing (but they knew some things I didn't know, too). There was nothing quite as bad as last year's "What does the ERASE command do in MS-DOS?" Msg 46335 is 08 line(s) on 06/17/93 from BENJAMIN COHEN to ANDY SHAPIRO re: R/LAPTOPS Second thoughts. The laptop that I really covet at the moment is the new Canon with the built-in bubble jet printer. Sigh. Still around $2.5K+. On the more reasonable size is the Gateway 2000 Handbook. At 2.2 pounds, small in size, $1295 (last I saw), only a 286, it's small enough to make the difference between a laptop you take wherever you think you'll need one and the laptop you carry EVERYWHERE all the time. There are some other entrants in this size range, I think. The keyboard really is big enough; my ex-partner reviewed it and really liked it. Msg 46336 is 11 line(s) on 06/17/93 from GRANT KILLEY to ALL re: PROGRAMMER WANTED G-Bar Limited Partnership is looking for a programmer. The position requires PASCAL, C, ASM, and some FORTRAN, scripting and SQL. All work is done on MACINTOSH, SUN and RS6000. If you're interested send your resume, with salary history and references to the address below. Phone calls and drop-ins are a MAJOR no-no so don't even think of it. Send all resumes to: April Ried G-Bar Limited Partnership 440 S. LaSalle St. suite 2900 Chicago, IL 60605 Msg 46337 is 09 line(s) on 06/17/93 from ANDY SHAPIRO to BENJAMIN COHEN re: PS Yeah, I still have MY Geneva (though my Kaypros are LONG gone), but we need a machine that'll do VGA (games for the kids, etc) so the handbook, while nice, is out. I tried the Toshiba 1850 at a COMPUSA store in Northern Virginia, and it was very nice, both w/respect to the screen AND the rd (a little blast of lif*ne noise here). You wanna ~2{buy another Geneva, Ben? This one has VDE 2.11 (if I recall) burned into a ROM, along with some other useful programs. If you're interested, I'll sell it cheap (I think I still have the modem/RAMdisk, even.) dup. chars. >Function:? >Function:?