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PROTOCOL: ALT
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COMPRESSION: NONE
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CONNECT 2400/ARQ
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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
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04/24/93 23:54:12
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++LINE > 9 LONG - truncated, return to ACCEPT, ^U to RE-ENTER:
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^^^^^^^^^^U
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?^U
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?^U
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?^U
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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss
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Logging name to disk...
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You are caller 229528; next msg =46219; 375 active msgs.
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Prev. call 04/21/93 @ 21:10, next msg was 46213
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Recording logon for next time.
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Use FULL? to check assignments
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?^U
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?xxxxx
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"Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to
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>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short
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LOG. 11
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KILLED. 66
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SUMMARY. 25
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04/21/93,21:10:38,229504,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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E#46213,3
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04/21/93,21:20:07,229505,2,SUNIL VASA,CHICAGO,7
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04/21/93,21:27:55,229506,2,D D,HH,
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04/21/93,21:35:32,229507,2,S SS,sg,
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04/21/93,21:42:24,229508,2,SUNIL VASA,,
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>Help: MODEM WANT TO LEARNU,
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>Help: SDOWNLOAD,13
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04/22/93,00:53:15,229509,2,BILL PRECHT,,0
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04/22/93,04:21:26,229510,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,,
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E#46214,
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E#46215,10
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04/22/93,08:19:07,229511,2,BILL MATTSON,,
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E#46216,14
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04/22/93,09:10:11,229512,2,DAVID HAGEN,,2
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04/22/93,10:38:51,229513,2,PETE JONES,,1
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04/22/93,11:57:13,229514,2,BRIAN SKONNING,GREEN BAY/WI,4
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04/22/93,23:46:31,229515,2,CYRUS PATEL,,4
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04/23/93,11:50:48,229516,2,RANDY IMAGEN,,1
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04/23/93,13:35:04,229517,2,SCOTT BRKOVICH,CHICAGO/ IL,2
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04/23/93,14:50:44,229518,2,DONNIE STUHLMAN,,3
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04/23/93,17:44:12,229519,2,GARY ELFRING,,2
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04/23/93,18:22:13,229520,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,1
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04/23/93,23:39:31,229521,2,CHARLES BERG,Shenorock/ NY,11
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04/24/93,00:06:39,229522,2,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,,
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E#46217,
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E#46218,6
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04/24/93,06:47:31,229523,2,DAVID GIBBS,,2
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04/24/93,14:41:49,229524,2,LAWRENCE LEVINE,,1
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04/24/93,21:11:22,229525,2,KEVIN LINDSTROM,Plainfield,2
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04/24/93,21:52:11,229526,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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04/24/93,23:35:34,229527,2,CYRUS PATEL,,1
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04/24/93,23:54:16,229528,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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46213 04/21/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => BRIAN AVERY: "R/PITTSBURGH"
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46214 04/22/93 ERIC BOHLMAN => BILL MATTSON: "68000"
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46215 04/22/93 ERIC BOHLMAN => WARD/ALL: "VOICE INPUT"
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46216 04/22/93 BILL MATTSON => ERIC BOHLMAN: "R/68000"
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46217 04/24/93 MICHAEL SHARTIAG => ALL: "IDE SPEED/TIMING/LAPTOPS"
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46218 04/24/93 MICHAEL SHARTIAG => ALL: "IDE (CONT)"
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- End of summary -
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Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.
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Msg 46213 is 02 line(s) on 04/21/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to BRIAN AVERY re: R/PITTSBURGH
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I think the Computer Shopper has a BBS listing by area - might check one
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out when you're in a store to verify if this is still true.
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Msg 46214 is 02 line(s) on 04/22/93 from ERIC BOHLMAN
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to BILL MATTSON re: 68000
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I can do you one better: I've still got a 4-MHZ one lying around (no
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plastic box, though).
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Msg 46215 is 13 line(s) on 04/22/93 from ERIC BOHLMAN
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to WARD/ALL re: VOICE INPUT
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I've had a chance to play around a little with Voice Blaster, a hardware/
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software combo from Covox that lets you use a SoundBlaster or clone for
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voice input. It can recognize up to 1023 words at a time (though they admit
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that speed and accuracy will be poor with such a large vocabulary). It's
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speaker-dependent and requires training. I've had mixed results with it,
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but they admit that support for the PAS-16 sound card that I have isn't quite
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there. I haven't had time to open up the machine and stick the old
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SoundBlaster back in and try it out (it has a test function that lets you
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play back the word that it tried to recognize, and I found that with the
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PAS it was chopping words up). Cost $69.95 at Comp Usa. Might be useful
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for entering control-key sequences or the like without straining the
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wrists (it also works well with a word-predictor program I sell). Current
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support is DOS only, though they've promised a Windows version.
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Msg 46216 is 08 line(s) on 04/22/93 from BILL MATTSON
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to ERIC BOHLMAN re: R/68000
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Yeh.It's the presentation box that really makes it. Consider a trade?
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Just kidding. We sure have come a long way since the 1-mhz 8080. Actually
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my first was a .5-mhz Signetics 2650 that only addressed 32K, nice
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instruction set, though. Built it myself from bare boards. It kind of
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troubles me to see all the for-fee BBS's that popped up later on, consid-
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ering that the cost of iron has steadily declined.but then we never
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contemplated storing gaggabytes of 6-megabyte word processors with built
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in harness race handicapping TSR's did we??? Regards.
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Msg 46217 is 29 line(s) on 04/24/93 from MICHAEL SHARTIAG
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to ALL re: IDE SPEED/TIMING/LAPTOPS
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I have been working on updating a Toshiba 1600 from a 20Meg disk to a
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120 Meg disk now for several months. I have left several messages
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concerning what I have found out. I hope that this info may help others
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who want to do this, and maybe someone will even have a solution now
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that I can define the problem.
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This laptop and many of the first several generations produced
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all used 20 or 40 meg drives (usually Conner's becasue they had the 1"
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packaging first). These were first generation IDE drives (all
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manufacturers, which basically combined the ST-506 drive with the
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Western digitial controller technology. What is important here is
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that: 1) there was no ANSI standard for IDE as there is today;
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and 2) the drives used the inerleave value of 3:1
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Today there is a standard and the drives are 1:1 and can not be
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reformatted to any other value. The controllers simply ignore these
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parameters.
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What ties all of this together are ther BIOS issues regarding
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timing on the IDE bus controller. Prior to 1989-90 depending on the
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company, the BIOS's did not have to concern themselves with this timing
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problem becasue drives were slow. On desktops you can simply
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upgrade the BIOS and be done.
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The laptop vendors have gone with cusomized BIOS's that it seems
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none of the 3rd party companies have touched. They further have not made
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the necessary changes themselves. What is occuring is that with 1:1
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interleave and burst mode transfers, the data is coming in from the drive
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faster then the laptop's BIOS is prepared to handle it, and at some point
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they miss handshakes; the computer waiting for the next acknowledgement,
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while the drive has already sent it and waiting for the next request: the
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result is a lockup. (which sometimes will retry in 90 seconds or so at the
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DOS level sometimes.
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Msg 46218 is 15 line(s) on 04/24/93 from MICHAEL SHARTIAG
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to ALL re: IDE (CONT)
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I finally got to the level of removing all upgrades I had made,
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and simply swapping the CP-3022 for the newer CP-30104 while only trying
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to access the new drive as a 20 Meg drive. It still froze: What is needed
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is a patch or fix or a means of upgrading the BIOS in the laptop. As I am
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not sure if there is any speed relevant data in the BIOS drive table, this
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by itself will not be enough (but it would take care of the drive size
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recognition problem)
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A company in Calif. is offering to upgrade this T1600 (286 based)
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machine to a 120 Meg drive for $795 (which is just a little too much of
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a markup) They will not sell me the BIOS, nor'update' the code on my BIOS
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chip.
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Conner says there is nothing I can do to slow down their drive;
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Toshiba has no newer version of their BIOS available. Where can I find a
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company selling laptop BIOS upgrades, or how much work would be involved
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in 'fixing' the current code ??
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dup. chars.
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>Function:? |