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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
11/18/91 21:18:00

Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U
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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss

Logging name to disk...
You are caller 224403; next msg =45273;  371 active msgs.
Prev. call 11/16/91 @ 14:57, next msg was 45269
Recording logon for next time...
Use FULL? to check assignments
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"Mine" command checking for msgs TO you,  ^K to abort..
>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short
LOG.          3 
KILLED.      65 
SUMMARY.     24 
11/16/91,15:03:51,224364,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,4
11/16/91,17:08:20,224365,9,SCOTT MUELLER,,4
11/16/91,17:21:45,224366,2,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,,4
11/16/91,18:20:49,224367,2,MARK WILSON,hinsdale,4
11/16/91,19:59:54,224368,2,RICHARD HINTON,,2
11/16/91,20:23:25,224369,1,STEVE RYAN,,4
11/16/91,21:36:17,224370,2,BILL MATTSON,,3
11/16/91,22:46:07,224371,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,1
11/17/91,01:10:25,224372,2,MARTIN SCHRADER,,
E#45269,
]K,45142,MARTIN SCHRADER, 8
11/17/91,05:15:56,224373,2,ALEX ZELL,,
11/17/91,06:20:18,224374,2,JERRY OLSEN,,72
11/17/91,06:30:22,224375,2,JERRY OLSEN,,
E#45270,82
11/17/91,06:37:54,224376,2,JAMES SCHMIDT,,2
11/17/91,08:09:27,224377,2,DAVE BOLENBAUGH,,5
11/17/91,10:33:26,224378,2,DON PIVEN,,1
11/17/91,13:54:05,224379,1,ANDY SHAPIRO,,
E#45271,8
11/17/91,17:14:40,224380,1,JOHN MCCARTHY,,
11/17/91,17:51:23,224381,2,BILL WOLFF,,
11/17/91,18:00:58,224382,2,BILL WOLFF,,
E#45272,11
11/17/91,20:56:31,224383,2,ED FOSTER,,3
11/17/91,21:56:05,224384,2,BILL MATTSON,,2
11/17/91,22:48:39,224385,2,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,,1
11/17/91,23:28:05,224386,1,ROSEMARY TERRY,,14
11/18/91,02:56:06,224387,9,ERIC BOHLMAN,,5
11/18/91,05:47:55,224388,2,PETE JONES,,2
11/18/91,06:07:16,224389,2,TERRY PLATT,mobile/al,3
11/18/91,09:05:32,224390,2,DENNIS STAHL,,6
11/18/91,09:42:12,224391,1,KEITH MESSINA,CHICAGO/IL,3
11/18/91,09:51:37,224392,1,XXXXXXX XXXXXXX,,
11/18/91,12:22:18,224393,2,LARRY HITZ,,6
11/18/91,13:08:20,224394,2,PHIL JERN,,3
11/18/91,13:43:24,224395,2,DON PIVEN,,1
11/18/91,15:40:41,224396,2,DENNIS STAHL,,0
11/18/91,16:13:17,224397,2,DDD DDDDD,,
11/18/91,16:42:35,224398,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,1
11/18/91,17:28:45,224399,2,FOSTER MOORE,,2
11/18/91,19:25:09,224400,1,BERNARD GOLDLUST,,2
11/18/91,19:30:19,224401,2,ROD SERLING,Chicago/ IL,2
11/18/91,20:32:19,224402,2,MARTIN SCHRADER,,
]K,45142,MARTIN SCHRADER, 4
]Hey, um...wasn't there a BBS list around here someplace?  Did I just
lose track of it?

B C'ing U...
MARTIN SCHRADER,
11/18/91,21:18:04,224403,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
45269 11/17/91 MARTIN SCHRADER => JERRY OLSEN: "R/REMOTE COMPUTING"
45270 11/17/91 JERRY OLSEN => WARD: "R/DEAD BATTERIES"
45271 11/17/91 ANDY SHAPIRO => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/STICKTION"
45272 11/17/91 BILL WOLFF => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/STICKTION"

Msg 45269 is 06 line(s) on 11/17/91 from MARTIN SCHRADER
to JERRY OLSEN re: R/REMOTE COMPUTING

I can't recall now if I mentioned Elseware?  How about Equal Partners?  There
are probably a zillion other shareware products out there by now, since
the commercial stuff has smacked SO badly.  Keep your (be seeing you)
Eyes peeled.  Let me know how it goes with TR3-9, eh?
  B C'ing U...

Msg 45270 is 11 line(s) on 11/17/91 from JERRY OLSEN
to WARD re: R/DEAD BATTERIES

The practice I follow here is to dump TWO CMOS screens--the one from
which the set-up data are entered and one that displays at boot time.
It will vary from system to system, but the items which are displayed
aren't identical on my machine. The first of the screens, for example,
shows my (wierd!) settings for HD type, while the second doesn't. On
the other hand, my second screen shows details about installed RAM,
which doesn't appear on the first. (RAM set-up is accomplished through
an XCMOS routine.) . . . Yeah, I too keep a little set of data similar
to your book. And for each of my clients, I maintain a printout of CMOS,
AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS and tree structure. Handy, of course, to
refresh memory (human and computer!) after a variety of minor disasters.

Msg 45271 is 11 line(s) on 11/17/91 from ANDY SHAPIRO
to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/STICKTION

Well, the worry about the fan is exactly that whatever dreck is out
there gets pulled all over the boards; but you're right, since the
PC doesn't have filter, it probably makes little difference.
 I agree on the BIOS up to a point -- the point of a crash, at
which point you can't get the machine back up.  But I haven't much
experience with these critters.
 The door IS a good idea.  But I've seen those on many 3.5" drives --
it ain't nothing new.  What WOULD be a good idea would be to put some
additional power-switching outlets on the back
of the box.  You could have everything switch at once.  Ofcourse
that would put the 'control center' folk out of business...

Msg 45272 is 13 line(s) on 11/17/91 from BILL WOLFF
to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/STICKTION

There are some types of computers that doesn't even have any fans.
Personally, those are the ones I go for. I shy away from hard drives
for the same reason as fans. They brake down too often and then you
have all kinds of problems. If a computer can't operate without a fan,
then I feel that some components are running too hot as it is. Why
fix it with a fan?
  Hard drives are the weakest links to todays computers. They make lots
of noise and are only 4 times faster than fast floppies in general.
Though they cost more than 4 times more. No deal there... though
RAM drives can be 1000 times faster and only a little more in cost
without the noise. I know this isn't mainstream, though I have kept
very happy this way with a bare minimal cost to compute AND NO NOISE!