CBBS(R) 4.0.3b 11/30/89 21:06:05 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 210713; next msg =42820; 357 active msgs. Prev. call 11/28/89 @ 21:04, next msg was 42814 Recording logon for next time. Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking fo >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-30 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 5 KILLED. 73 SUMMARY. 24 11/28/89,21:04:44,210660,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#42814, E#42815, ]S,MESSAGE.X22, ]S,MESSAGE.X24, ]S,MESSAGE.X26, ]S,MESSAGE.X28,15 11/28/89,21:28:52,210661,2,JOHN BEYER,,2 ]JOHN BEYER, 11/28/89,21:37:06,210662,1,LANE LARRISON,,4 11/28/89,22:04:01,210663,1,BILL WOLFF,,4 11/28/89,22:08:25,210664,2,STEVE COHEN,, E#42816,6 11/28/89,22:45:37,210665,2,WILLIAM FREEMAN,wheeling/ il,8 11/28/89,23:04:13,210666,1,STEVE RYAN,, 11/28/89,23:07:18,210667,1,STEVE RYAN,,8 11/28/89,23:21:10,210668,2,ALEX ZELL,, 11/28/89,23:28:30,210669,1,CHARLIE KESTNER,, E#42817,12 11/29/89,00:56:58,210670,1,TOM O'DONNELL,chicago/il,26 11/29/89,01:36:21,210671,1,CHUCK GRANT,LOCKPORT/IL,10 11/29/89,05:32:15,210672,2,PETE JONES,,1 11/29/89,06:48:54,210673,1,MICHAEL MCDANIEL,,5 11/29/89,08:15:10,210674,2,CHUCK GRANT,,11 11/29/89,10:24:52,210675,2,MARTY LINGG,,1 11/29/89,11:04:18,210676,2,JACK HOMA,,2 11/29/89,11:36:28,210677,1,JAMES REED,, 11/29/89,12:59:31,210678,1,RICH W.,indy, 11/29/89,14:18:24,210679,3,RUSS WAGNER,,14 11/29/89,14:32:56,210680,2,HERB SCHULZ,Naperville/ IL.,6 11/29/89,15:38:42,210681,2,MARTY LINGG,,2 11/29/89,18:46:57,210682,1,BRIAN MULLINS,,7 ]BRIAN MULLINS, 11/29/89,19:14:26,210683,2,JOEL KURASCH,Skokie/ Il,16 11/29/89,19:53:08,210684,1,RICHARD STOMPER,,1 11/29/89,20:21:36,210685,2,JIM POLOUS,,1 11/29/89,20:39:46,210686,1,RICHARD STOMPER,,2 11/29/89,20:45:48,210687,1,DF DF,, 11/29/89,20:54:21,210688,1,' L,, 11/29/89,20:57:53,210689,1,L L,, 11/29/89,21:07:14,210690,2,LEO ANGEVINE,, E#42818,8 11/29/89,21:22:21,210691,1,LANE LARRISON,,1 11/29/89,21:29:59,210692,1,LANE LARRISON,,1 11/29/89,21:39:42,210693,1,TOM CARLSON,joliet,5 11/29/89,21:48:55,210694,3,TONY ANTONUCCI,,16 11/29/89,22:49:31,210695,2,GREG VERIVE,f*adwdis,7 11/29/89,22:56:56,210696,2,GREG VERIVE,,9 11/29/89,23:24:59,210697,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,,4 11/29/89,23:54:20,210698,2,ADRIAN MCKEE,illinois,50 11/30/89,02:54:41,210699,1,DON PIVEN,,2 11/30/89,05:25:49,210700,2,JAMES SCHMIDT,,1 11/30/89,07:30:34,210701,2,ED FOSTER,,1 11/30/89,11:40:13,210702,2,JAMES KARAGANIS,,3 11/30/89,12:02:42,210703,2,STEVE AIDIKONIS,,8 11/30/89,12:31:12,210704,2,GARY ELFRING,,2 11/30/89,13:23:52,210705,1,GARY MCCOY,,5 11/30/89,13:56:39,210706,2,SGINGER JONES,seattle/ wa, 11/30/89,15:42:31,210707,1,LANE LARRISON,,1 11/30/89,17:26:47,210708,1,SHIRLEY BAREN,Chicago/IL, >Help: CLUB, 11/30/89,19:28:09,210709,1,RICHARD GOZDAL,,2 11/30/89,20:19:02,210710,1,ROBERT BAKEN,Chicago/ IL,4 11/30/89,20:30:01,210711,1,COLIN SCHROEDER,, ]>> got Flash<< E#42819,10 11/30/89,20:42:52,210712,1,MIKE SCOTT,downers grove/il,5 11/30/89,21:06:09,210713,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 42814 11/28/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => JAMES SCHMIDT: "R/CLEANING DISKETTE DRIVES" 42815 11/28/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => DON PARIS: "MEMORY ERROR" 42816 11/28/89 STEVE COHEN => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "COMDEX" 42817 11/28/89 CHARLIE KESTNER => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/PC VOICE STUFF" 42818 11/29/89 LEO ANGEVINE => STEVE COHEN: "R/REPLY" 42819 11/30/89 COLIN SCHROEDER => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/PC-BASED UNIX OS" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 42814 is 16 line(s) on 11/28/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to JAMES SCHMIDT re: R/CLEANING DISKETTE DRIVES I'd say "do it, but seldom" - i.e. maybe once a year or something. OR, what I probably mean, is, do it once every hundred hours of head-down time, which is impossible to measure, but which would be VERY high for a heavily used diskette-only system, and lightly used by someone with a big system who has a tape for backups. I run a BBS off of a floppy, and occasionally get read errors, but only about once a year or so so I'm looking for a - get this - 8" cleaning diskette because it is so hard to get the drives apart. I'm sure they make 3.5" cleaning diskettes. I, too, notice that when a diskette fails, it is often with a fairly significant scratch in the media - and I ponder what could have caused it. What I usually come up with is that enough oxide must have built up on the head, and perhaps it then "half flakes off" or something leaving a sharp edge. It would be interesting to look at drive heads with a 50 power microscope, but since double sided disks came along it is just too hard to get them opened up enough to really see the heads. Msg 42815 is 19 line(s) on 11/28/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to DON PARIS re: MEMORY ERROR I think I had a 4020 201 error on my machine, and that the 40 was the bit that failed, and the 20 was the "bank" that the error occurred in - i.e. the 2nd (numbered 0, 1, 2) bank of 64K on the motherboard. If you're convinced that your error is in the extended memory board, what I recommend is taking about 4 chips at a time and swapping them with other chips in another row. Pry them out carefully, perhaps with a small screwdriver slid under the end - but be careful about "levering" against breakable capacitors or other components. Also be careful to work in a way that wouldn't induce static discharge - some people actually work on a table with a wet newspaper on it to ground things out - but for sure as you work inside the machine kind of keep one finger on the power supply (silver box) or at least touch if you walk around at all, to ensure you don't zap something. If you have the patience to "swap" the chips, like I say, perhaps 4 at a time, you should be able to narrow down ONE chip eventually which when swapped causes different numbers to show up. What kind of expansion board is it? Is it the IBM 64-256 memory expansion option? (it has 4 banks of 9-64K chips, in 3 rows of 12 or something like that). Good luck. Msg 42816 is 05 line(s) on 11/28/89 from STEVE COHEN to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: COMDEX Did you see the Sound Blaster board from Brown-Wagh (BALLY'S)? They have a Game Blaster ($100) that produces sound for games specially written to address it. 12 voices? stereo output. The Sound Blaster also has a MIDI port and was like $150. Not MPU 401 compatible. Msg 42817 is 05 line(s) on 11/28/89 from CHARLIE KESTNER to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/PC VOICE STUFF Covox was what I recalled what you mentioned. My wife and I were discussing it the other day, is why I asked; the topic of conversation being computers and the disabled. I see I am going to have to visit Eric Bohlman's BBS. Msg 42818 is 08 line(s) on 11/29/89 from LEO ANGEVINE to STEVE COHEN re: R/REPLY Glad that you had a good flight on UAL. Even tho' I have thousands of hours in aircraft, I'm a real novice with computer simulations. I've been trying to get a good landing out of Advanced Flight Trainer for some time. (grin) Just got in from a 5 day flight sequence and guess it is time to quit for the day. Best to ya', Leo Msg 42819 is 04 line(s) on 11/30/89 from COLIN SCHROEDER to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/PC-BASED UNIX OS Thanks for resetting the FLASH. I appreciate it. Will probably get in touch soon to discuss it. I'm thinkg about getting ESIX (from Everex), as my machine is an Everex OEM, and their prices are about half that of SCO's! Will let you know what happens. dup. chars. >Function:?