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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:18:04 CDT
Reply-To:     Sir Lance von Hoppy <LHOPENW1@UA1VM.BITNET>
From:         Sir Lance von Hoppy <LHOPENW1@UA1VM.BITNET>
Subject:      SoundBlaster Pro (under $200)

Thanks everyone for your replies to my question about the SoundBlaster Pro.
Seems the place I looked at has prices considerably above the norm.

Apparently, through mail-order and places like Babbages, one can get
a SoundBlaster Pro for under or around $200.  This is with full MIDI
hookup.  (One person claimed to have seen the price tag as low as $165).

Most of the replies advised looking in the back of Computer Shopper or
some other such magazine.

Thanks again everyone for not letting me waste my measly paychecks. :)


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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:38:36 EST
Reply-To:     MMARSHAL <mmarshal@IUS.INDIANA.EDU>
From:         MMARSHAL <mmarshal@IUS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: F-19 stealth fighter simulator
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              GAMES-L@BROWNVM.brown.edu

Hi. I am hooked on the F-19 stealth fighter simulator - it has so many
features, and so many things running at the same time, it really feels
like a "real" plane. Like, it has the scenery that you are flying over,
then it blinks the enemy positions, identifies them. at the bottom
of the screen you have a camera that shows the enemy up close, and
a heads up or target map. It's really amazing.

I play it with VGA, but my version only has 16 colors. I heard there
was a F-19 version 2 out that shows things in 256-color. Is it worth
getting it? What are the views of this group?   Thanks, -turgut

     Try the next version, F-117 Stealth Fighter.If you thought the
first one was great, you'll just flip out over this one.

                         Michael C. Marshall

                   MMARSHAL@IUSMAIL.IUS.INDIANA.EDU

                     "Set phasers on annihilate!"

                                     Hodgepodge
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From:         ACCNEWS@HOFSTRA.BITNET
Subject:      Star trek game

From: accjlc@hofstra.bitnet
Subject: Star trek game

Does any body know how many missions there are on the Star Trek 25th
anniversary game and could you please post a list of all mission titles
to the list? I would also like to know which missions have elements from the
episodes in them i.e the ameba?  Thanks much.

-John Cipolla.
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Reply-To:     Chris Ward <CWARD@OPIE.BGSU.EDU>
From:         Chris Ward <CWARD@OPIE.BGSU.EDU>
Subject:      Leisure Suit Larry 5
X-To:         GAMES-L@brownvm.brown.edu

I am having some problems with Leisure Larry. I am in the airport near the
 beginning of the game and have purchased my ticket to NYC and need to know how
 to get on the plane.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:49:00 EDT
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From:         COPAT1@ITHACA.BITNET
Subject:      CD-ROM games

        Hello all!

        I was wondering what the general consensus was about games on CD-ROM.
I'm sure a lot of you have CD-ROM already, and have played games like
Sherlock Holmes, Links, and Gunship on CD-ROM.  Are the graphics sometimes
choppy, as the computer needs to reference the CD for information?  Does the
audio outweigh any inconveniance caused by this?  I'm considering buying a new
system with multi-media, and can't decide if CD-ROM is quite worth it yet.

                                        Merlin  -  COPAT1@ITHACA
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:22:51 EDT
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject:      The GreenDisk (fwd)

----------------------------Original message----------------------------

---------- Text of forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:58:50 PDT
From: greendisk@IGC.APC.ORG
To: Multiple recipients of list CNEDUC-L <CNEDUC-L@tamvm1.bitnet>
Subject: The GreenDisk

>>>>>>> Please forward to environmental and education networks <<<<<<<<

The deadline for material to be included in the August - September 1992
edition of The GreenDisk Paperless Environmental Journal is September 1.

   If you have submissions of any of the following:

      - Conference or meeting announcements.
      - Employment, volunteer or internship positions.
      - Environmental computer networking developments.
      - University environmental studies program descriptions.
      - Environmental education materials or training programs.
      - Publications summaries, book reviews.
      - Press releases, action alerts, etc.

   please send them as an E-mail message to:

EcoNet <greendisk> - Internet <greendisk@igc.org> - CompuServe <70760,2721>

  The GreenDisk, PO Box 32224, Washington, DC 20007.  Phone: 202-337-4175.

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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:12:26 EDT
From:         zimmer@gw.wmich.edu
Subject:      Omnipage OCR software

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I'd like to add my experience with the Omnipage Pro OCR software to the list.
I recently had the occasion to install it in our Faculty Resource Center
and test it for suitability for a faculty member's application, which involves
scanning German text.  I created and printed out a 7-8 line paragraph
containing the umlauts (a, o, and u with the double dots on them) and the
double-s, represented by the lower-case beta symbol, umlauts being in both
upper and lower case on a NeXT.  This output was scanned in on a MAC, where
our scanner is presently hooked up, and written as a TIF file in DOS format.
I set Omnipage Pro to the German language (one of several settings available),
and let it do its thing.  Running on 486/25 EISA machine (under Windows), it
took about 15-20 seconds to scan the file and display it on the screen.
All the characters were recognized except for the capitol-A umlaut.
Interestingly, earlier I had a blank line above the line containing the
capitol umlauts.  In that case, none of the capitol umlauts were recognized.
In all cases, regular letters were recognized correctly 100%. The final part
of the test involved created a WordPerfect 5.1 file of the scanned output.
This was successfully read by WP5.1 without a hitch.
Note that Omnipage Pro really wants 8meg RAM; it can run with 4meg (in this
case it has to), but then requires a 4meg swap file on hard disk.  So I
imagine it can run faster with more RAM.
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:42:14 EDT
From:         "EDTECH Moderator" <21765edt@ibm.cl.msu.edu>
Subject:      Hello Everybody

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
HI!
I'm Gary LaPointe and I'm here for the week to run EDTECH for Vickie until
she gets back next week.
So if the mail comes through a little funny, don't panic - I'll only be
here for a week.

Gary J LaPointe
Michigan State University
21757gjl@ibm.cl.msu.edu
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:12:00 EDT
From:         TRULL@CL4.CL.UH.EDU
Subject:      RE: Internet Explorer's Toolkit (fwd)

Is there an "Internet Explorer's Toolkit" that will run on a
Macintosh?

KJ
Trull@cl4.cl.uh.edu
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:22:24 EDT
From:         "David S. Barkley" <0002849430@mcimail.com>
Subject:      RE: ISBN HELP

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
To obtain an ISBN number for a book you must be a publisher (even
a very small one!).

Contact:

R.R. Bowker Company
245 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
Phone (212) 337-6971
Fax (212) 242-6987

Tell them that you that you wish to obtain a log book of ISBN
numbers and a handful of Advanced Book Information reporting
forms.

Dave Barkley
2849430@mcimail.com
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:42:44 EDT
From:         Wayne Debly <DEBLY@ADMIN.HumberC.ON.CA>
Subject:      Re: proposal estimates for OCR scanning?
              24 Aug 1992 19:00:35 EDT from <danmac@physics.purdue.edu>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
We are using a 386 with 4 meg of ram and an 80 meg hard drive to run our OCR
package and it does quite nicely.  We find that if we scan more than 8 pages
at a time without having OCR translate it runs into problems.  I am not sure
where this problem comes from.  We are using a HP scanjet plus with Calera
Wordscan Plus.  I am told that it is very hard to do OCR with a hand held
scanner.  Apparently it is hard to get a straight and even scan with the
hand held unit.  This is needed for good OCR.  Wordscan maintains things like
underline, bold, tabs and columns for WordPerfect translations.  We like it
 alot.  There are errors and it does need help.  They say a fast accurate
typist is better.  But then "they" say alot things.

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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:26:43 EDT
From:         Guy Levert <GLEVERT@acadvm1.UOttawa.CA>
Subject:      Re: learning style tests
              27 Aug 1992 14:44:40 EDT from <YOKITA@UHCCVX.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Perhaps you should also look at a test designed by Dr. Royce (forgot his
first name) which was also adapted by Professor Richard Rancourt of the
University of Ottawa.  The test of Prof. Rancourt is called IMAC,
Inventaire des Modalites d'Acces a la Connaissance (Inventory of
Knowledge Acquisition Modes).

Prof. Rancourt can be reached by:
INTERNET: prota@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
UNIVERSITY PHONE: (613) 564-7701
BUSINESS PHONE  : (613) 837-2989

Hope this will help!


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Guy Levert  Consultant en informatique / Informatics Consultant
             Etudiant de Maitrise en EDUCATION Master Student
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:28:59 EDT
From:         JVT@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Subject:      Gradebook and Test Bank Programs

Dear Colleague:

I'm searching for PC-DOS software for maintaining course gradebooks
and/or software for maintaining a test bank and creating exams.  If
you have or know of such software please contact me at

Joseph V. Terza
Department of Economics
Penn State
502 Kern Building
University Park  16802

Ph.: (814) 863-3743
E-Mail: JVT at PSUVM

Are there any other network groups that I should contact re this?
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:23:45 EDT
From:         Bruce Carter <bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu>
Subject:      Re: GIF files to Macintosh

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Greetings,

>Does anyone have specifics on how to convert a MS-DOS based GIF file,
>into one a Macintosh can read.  Specifics on software, procedures,
>server one can use to FTP the conversionion software, will be *greatly*
>appreciated.

Macs can read GIF files as is with applications such as GifConverter, Giffer,
QuickGif, and many others.  GifConverter can then save the file out in several
different standard Mac formats.
                                     <->
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Simplot/Micron Instructional Technology Center       amccarte@idbsu (Bitnet)
Boise State University, Boise, ID  83725             (208)385-1851@phone
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:27:38 EDT
From:         "DAN DOHERTY, AV SERVICES" <DOHERTY@camad1.Camosun.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: learning style tests

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
There are two more that I am aware of:
Gregoric, based on the Myers-Briggs
and the Kolb.

We use them in our Instructional Skills Workshops
and I use them in class.  A very powerful tool for helping you include
different types of learning styles in your presentations (know your audience).

I really find them useful, but then my "score" indicates that I would.
Some people don't like them (there score indicates that too).
We have a well trained Myers-Brigs person on campus...what kind of
info do you need?

After anwsering a few word comparison questions the "Gregoric" charts
your style on a four quadrant grid -
  info processing: absrtact vs concrete (x)
  application     : sequential vs random (y)

The best two styles to compare are "Abstract Randoms" who get lost
task completion is not important, develop relationships, and are creative, and
"Concrete Sequentials" are task and time oriented, relationships aren't
important and they follow they follow the logical route.

This is a gross over simplification, but should give you the idea.
This is not a tool for putting people in boxes, but rather a tool to help
you see your strengths and weaknesses, and appreciate how each person
has very valuable skills and perceptions to contribute to a group.

Literature goes on to describe how the different types like feedback,
manage, follow, learn, teach, relax, etc...



Dan Doherty				(604)370-3612
Supervisor, Audio-Visual Services	(604)370-3660 (fax)
Camosun College
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada   V8P 5J2			Internet: Doherty@camosun.bc.ca
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:52:40 EDT
From:         BEZEAU@unb.ca
Subject:      Re: Software for scheduling a department

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
     I have scheduled my 13-person department for two years now
using IBM's Mathematical Programming System (MPSX).  This is not
actually scheduling software but a general package for solving
linear programs, which is what scheduling is.  This works well but
scheduling with linear programming is not for the uninitiated;
a good prior knowledge of linear programming is essential.
Also some custom programming is necessary to develop the
contraints and other inputs required by linear programming (LP)
and to produce the printed timetables.

     MPSX runs on IBM mainframes and not on microcomputers,
although LP software is available for microcomputers.
Unfortunately, the scheduling model for even a moderately sized
department is large enough that it would not run on most micro-
computers.  This will undoubtedly change in the future.

     I found out recently that IBM considers MPSX obsolete and
it has been removed from our mainframe and replaced by the
Optimization Subroutine Library (OSL).  This is probably what
I will be using to develop our schedule for 1983-84.
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:38:40 EDT
From:         "P. Gathy" <Gathy@isto.ucl.ac.be>
Subject:      Re: proposal estimates for OCR scanning?
              ii" at Aug 21, 92 12:49 pm

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
In the Byte issue of April 1991 (Volume 16, Number 4, 220-241), you will
find a review of 14 OCR packages for Mac and PC. Take into account that
the result greatly depends on the quality of the document (very bad with
dot-matrix printouts...)
Sincerely yours,

Philippe Gathy
Laboratory of histology - Medical School
Catholic University of Louvain
B-1200 Brussels - Belgium
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:21:27 EDT
From:         Frank Becker <fbecker@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu>
Subject:      News submission for va-pen.mailing-list.edtech

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From: fbecker@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu (Frank Becker)
Subject: Re: Keyboarding skills? Help needed!
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Richmond)
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 03:18:00 GMT

We are experiencing the same problem in BOBthe elementary school
where I teach.  I have felt strongly about the need to teach
keyboarding as early as third grade and do so using the MECC
programm Communikeys.  I also use a more in depth program in a
summer school class that I teach called PAWS.  I think it is
published by Micro Grams.

Many problems exist in the teaching of keyboarding.  Two of the
biggest are: 1)scheduling the lab to all classes for the
needed dailey practice, and 2) getting teachers to teach
keyboarding that don't type themselves.  We do not have a
computer lab teacher.

One way we attempt to address the scheduling of practice
sessions is to purchace a class set of Type Right machines.
They are battery opperated keyboard consoles that simmulate a
computer keyboard exactly.  They provide multi-level lessons,
practice sessions and games and they fit easily on a student's
desk.  They even come with a book much like a typing textbook.

If you are interested in reading about the State Dept. of
Educations position on keyboarding, you can request a copy of
their position paper published several years ago.

Frank Becker fbecker@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu
--
Frank J. Becker   (804) 768-6175   fbecker@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu
C.E. Curtis Elementary School, Chesterfield County, Virginia
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:25:44 EDT
From:         Neal Shambaugh <JAKE@VTVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      FYI: Catalyst via FTP

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Announcing the Scholarly Communications FTP Server

        The Scholarly Communications Project of Virginia Tech with the support
of
 University Libraries would like to announce the establishment of an FTP server
 for all scholarly electronic journals published at VPI.  Titles which were
 previously available only by subscription to listserv lists include:

_The Community Services CATALYST_
_Journal of Technology Education_
_Journal of the International Academy of Hospitality Research_
_The International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis_

Also available at this FTP site are the monthly logs for VPIEJ-L, issues of
the electronic version of the _Newsletter of the Visual Communication Division
of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication_, as well
as frequently asked questions relevant to electronic publishing and tools for
text processing and data compression for various platforms.  The server is
available 24 hours a day for multiple logins via the Internet.

FTP Instructions:
        ftp borg.lib.vt.edu
        cd /pub
        cd /<directory-of-your-choice>
        get <filename>.<filetype>

About the Scholarly Communications FTP server:
The server runs on a NeXTstation Turbo with 24Mb of RAM located at University
Libraries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

James Powell >>> Systems Support and Development, University Libraries, VPI&SU
             >>> JPOWELL@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU                                   O+>
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