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From: david@llustig.palo-alto.ca.us (David Schachter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
Subject: WPDO Newsletter deadline is near...
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 00:30:06 PST
Organization: Greenwire Consulting, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Brad Wait, the editor for the WPDO newsletter, asks me to post this
reminder: The deadline for contributions for the January issue is December
24, 1992.  Articles, snippets, chapter notes, advertisements, and other
stuff should be sent directly to "brad@objy.com" by email or to:
    Brad Wait
    The Lofts
    601 4th Street, #102
    San Francisco, CA
    94107
    USA

You do not have to be a WPDO member to contribute.  If you have information
of interest to PenPoint developers, let us know about it!  Write a paragraph
or two, or a short article, and send it in.  We'll send you a copy of the
newsletter for your records, of course.

Sample copies of Volume 1, Number 1 are available; contact me for more info.
The newsletter is published bi-monthly (January, March, May, ...)

Questions?  Comments?  Concerns?  Contact me or Brad.  (If you call me, please
call AFTER 10 am California time.  Thank you.  Gurgle gurgle.)

[WPDO == Worldwide PenPoint Developers Organization.]

______________________________________-______________________________________
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From: grobbins@Apple.COM (Grobbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
Subject: Re: Newton from Apple
Date: 12 Dec 92 20:32:14 GMT
Organization: Apple Macintosh SSW Division, not Newton

In article <1992Dec10.022310.8127@cis.uab.edu> vachha@cisa1.cis.uab.edu (Rustom_yuppy_Vachha) writes:
> My company is interested in beta testing Apple's Newton computer for
>a medical pen computing application. Does anyone know who can be contacted?
>Any leads whatsoever will be greatly acknowledged.

The contact address for becoming a Newton developer is
Newton.Devs@AppleLink.Apple.com

No doubt they have had many inquiries, so please expect a
delayed response and be patient.


Grobbins               grobbins@apple.com

Usual disclaimers apply.
From: bwright%mcdd1.uucp@ibmpcug.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: POP server for UMAX V
Keywords: POP
Date: 14 Dec 92 13:10:58 GMT
Reply-To: bwright%mcdd1.uucp@ibmpcug.co.uk
Organization: McDonnell Douglas

Help,
Has anyone ported a POP3 mail server to Encore UMAX V (either 2.x or 3.x). I
also need an NNTP server for UMAX V.

If you have either of these please could you email me a copy (email me first to
check I havent already received a copy) or tell me where I can ftp them from.

Thanks in advance.
Barry Wright, McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Ltd. (UK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
From: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)
Subject: Re: Encore old vs. new
Organization: Motorola MCG, Urbana Design Center
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:08:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.161644.2773@news.columbia.edu> alan@curta.cc.columbia.edu (Alan Crosswell) writes:

|   > >The company that you really work for according to those of us that have
|   > >Multimaxen is called Gould.
|   > 
|   > I'm curious as to what makes the Multimax a systems solution, while
|   > implying the Series 90 isn't.
|
|   Nothing but culture: 4.3BSD and Mach vs. System V.  People who call them
|   computers rather than systems solutions.
---
Funny, I thought the Sys V orientation came from the Encore side rather
than the Gould side -- the last Gould systems I saw (when this shop was
part of Gould rather than part of Motorola) ran a 4.3-derived UNIX.
My understanding was that the "official" UNIX on the Encore *max systems
was a SysV derivative and that the 4.3BSD+Mach stuff was semi-official
stuff made available to people who insisted...
--
scott preece
motorola/mcg urbana design center	1101 e. university, urbana, il   61801
uucp:	uunet!uiucuxc!udc!preece,	 arpa:	preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
phone:	217-384-8589			  fax:	217-384-8550
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
From: mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer)
Subject: Test - please disregard
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:31:57 GMT

This is a test
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano)
Subject: Re: HDB & Voice/Data Modes
Organization: Multidisciplinary Designs Unlimited
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 13:07:00 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.151849.21834@colnet.cmhnet.org> res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli) writes:
>>>	Also, how do I set up my UnixPC so that it is in DATA mode on
>>>both PH0 & PH1??
>>
>>I don't think you can.  The modem will only talk to ph1.
>
>Actually, it is possible to select either ph0 or ph1 as the DATA line, but
>not both concurrently.

Yes, I should have added: in the situation where you have both ph0 and ph1
active (a two-line setup).
>
>...

>-- 
>Rob Stampfli  rob@colnet.cmhnet.org      The neat thing about standards:
>614-864-9377  HAM RADIO: kd8wk@n8jyv.oh  There are so many to choose from.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: jmartino@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (James R Martino)
Subject: .5MB to 2 MB upgrade
Summary: Need hardware advice
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:15:47 GMT


I've been trying, with no success, to upgrade a .5MB pc7300 with a 2MB
board. The catch: the 2MB board was minus the chips. Figuring that the
chips from the .5MB board would plug 'n' play, I transferred the chips
over and fired up the new board, with dissappointing results. Upon
powering up, the hard disk does wake up, and other familiar noises
occur (but no beeping), and then the screen shows a lovely pattern of
alternating thin bars. No boot occurs; the floppy disk drive is not
consulted. Hardware reset momentarily changes the screen 
to the weird reset screen, then returns immediately to the screen
above. Reset does not do anything else.

Questions: What the (regular expression deleted) is the problem? Is
there an incompatibility (in  ROM chips, perhaps) between the .5MB and
the 2MB boards? 

If anyone knows the answers, I'd really like to know how to proceed on
this mildly educational journey.

Thanks 1.5M (=2M-.5M) in advance,

Jim

Jim Martino				+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
jrm@chow.mat.jhu.edu			+   PLACE COMMERCIAL HERE   +
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: ape@eskimo.com (Mark Newland)
Subject: Re: Wanted: SS and graphing software, VP software
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Distribution: comp.sys.3b1
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:20:07 GMT

dalbaugh@bilbo.memst.edu writes:
> 
> A friend of mine is looking for a spreadsheet and graphing program
> for his PC 7300.  If you have one with documentation you would like
> to sell, please email me with what you are asking.  Also needed is
> software for a voice power board.  If you have docs and software
> you want to get rid of let me know.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 

Assuming you have Internet access, you can ftp archive.cis.ohio-state.osu
(IP address: 128.146.8.52) and get a copy of VCALC (spreadsheet) under the
/pub/att7300/STORE directory.  I have looked thu it and looks like it will
do everything I need it to do.  Depending on what kind of graphing program
he is looking for, there are a few available at the same site but know
nothing about them
From: grzyrob@elof.iit.edu (Rob Grzywinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: New AT&T UNIX PC user needs help (and lots of it!)
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:05:24 GMT
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Hello,

  I just recieved an AT&T UNIX PC from a friend who had no idea what
the machine was.  It quit working on him so I craftly removed it from 
him for $10 and replaced the HD for $50.  I don't have any system files
yet (I'm pretty sure that I'm getting them from another friend who works
in a computer lab at school), but I know that it works just fine (did manage
to swipe a diagnostic disk and it tested great).  As I was cleaning it I
noticed that it had the IBM coprocessor board and 512 of memory on an
extra board.  I have no idea what model it is.  It was made in 85.  It had 
a 20MB miniscribe, green monitor that is attached to the top, one floppy
on the right, anf the slots are underneath.  There are no on board memory
expansion slots.  Can anyone match the model type and let me know?!
  Also, I'm familiar with UNIX and I have seen the UPC in action, but
I've never see the IBM board.  How do i access it?  Do I need any software
to run it (besides probably dos 3.1 or less)?
  To sum up,  I need HELP!  If anyone can help with any aspect, such as
setting up, tips, tricks, place to get manuals (for cheap!!), system
disks, etc I'd be in debt to you.

Thanks a million for your time

If you would mind E-Mailing me at
grzyrob@elof.iit.edu 
I'd prefer it!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services)
Subject: Re: HDB & Voice/Data Modes
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:31:35 GMT

In article <crigler.724094430@eola.cs.ucf.edu> crigler@cs.ucf.edu (James Crigler) writes:
>afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>[...]
>>  The modem will only talk to ph1.
>
>Not quite true.  The modem will talk to ph0 perfectly well
>IF ph0 is the only phone enabled.
>
>Jim Crigler


	Stupid me.  I thought the 3b1 had two internal modems... One on ph0
and one on ph1.

	Oh well...




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: vjg@cbnews.cb.att.com (vincent.j.guinto)
Subject: How to fix shrinking screen
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:17:34 GMT

I've got an old 7300 and the screen is shrinking in from the
right-hand edge.

I know this is a common problem, and I recall that there's
a fix for it (something involving replacing capacitors?)

Can anyone point me to a detailed procedure for making this
repair? The instructions need to be simplistic - I'm not a
major hardware engineer.

Thanks for any help.

----------------------------------------------------------------
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Opinions are mine, not AT&T's

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you don't have to impress people you wish were dead." -J. Carson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: fox@wubios.wustl.edu (Dave Fox)
Subject: KERNEL THREAD START
Organization: Division of Biostatistics, WUMS, St. Louis, MO
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:14:48 GMT


I am interested in information on relinking the kernel.


Any and all information, features, problems, and experiences
would be appreciated.  This would be an excellent addition to
our FAQ.



Thanks in advance


Dave
From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: dead expansion box
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 23:27:11 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

In article <1992Dec16.040423.6976@umbc3.umbc.edu>
motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Howard E. Motteler) writes:

|  A while back I picked up a no-warranties 3b1 expansion box.  I
|  finally got around to setting it up, and sure enough, it doesn't
|  work.  The 3b1 gets a fine hatching on the screen with the box
|  attached, and fails to boot.  When the box is attached but
|  powered down, there is no hatching, but the the machine hangs
|  while loading the boot disk.  (The usual sequence is box on
|  before 3b1, but I thought I'd try booting with the box attached
|  but powered down.)
|  [...]

The power to the expansion box MUST be on before the 3B1 or 7300 is
powered up; with the exp. box power off, the bus(es) is(are) improperly
loaded/terminated.

Now, my "main" 3B1 exhibits the same problem and always has since day 1
with the expansion box; plugging the box's card into any of my 7300 systems
and no problem whatsoever.

What works for me is to simply press the RESET button at the back of the
computer after the cross-hatching upon power up; system then comes up fine
and runs for 6 months until I shut it down again for cleaning.  Because it
hasn't been a "problem" (for me), I never bothered to determine WHY it causes
the cross-hatching only on the one system (and ONLY on a 3B1).

Several people in the local users' group have made the same comments and
observations, and pressing the RESET works for them, too.

Quien sabe?

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: frank@halcyon.com (Frank Higgins)
Subject: Re: Need help with a sick STARLAN card
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 07:25:49 GMT

>I've dealt with numerous 3B1/7300 machines in the past five years.  I have
>seen more than a few cases where a given board just did not work in a given
>slot.  I've seen a few cases where only a memory board will work in a given
>slot.  Sometimes, there is an obvious problem getting the connector on the
>board to engage the backplane.  At other times, this doesn't appear to be a
>problem.
>
>I've come to suspect it has something to do with the alignment of the slots
>and the backplane and the critical distance between the pins and the back of
>the case.  The backplane adjustment on the 3B1 case seems to be critical.
>Note that the half-meg board almost never causes problems, because it it
>just inserted until the connectors mate -- there is no rear flange to stop
>it from fully engaging the backplane.  My advice is that, if you can find a
>combination where all the boards work, use it.  I'm glad you appear to have
>found such a layout.
>-- 
>Rob Stampfli  rob@colnet.cmhnet.org      The neat thing about standards:
>614-864-9377  HAM RADIO: kd8wk@n8jyv.oh  There are so many to choose from.

I found that a DOS-73 board and a Starlan board inserted more easily and
worked more consistently after carefully measuring the lateral position of
the connector at the back end of the boards. They were not precisely
centered, so I filed off the edges of the boards (making them narrower) so
that they had more latitude in positioning themselves sidewis to center the
backplane pins into the connector. I don't suppose that this will solve all
such problems, but it helped with a couple.

Frank        

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli)
Subject: Re: Help with Bad Block Table
Organization: Little to None
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:57:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.171206.6467@rock.concert.net> toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services) writes:
>
>Yesterday, when my UnixPC crashed, it told me that it was really having
>trouble working with Cylinder 102, Head 5, secter 1.  I would like to
>put this in my bad block table, however, I would like to know the
>best method.  Should I use Cyl,Head,Byte "How do I calc. Byte?"
>			   Physical Sector "How do I get that number?"
>			   Logical Block   "Ditto previous quote"
>
>	Also, is there any way to look up and see what file is occupying
>102,5,1 ???  I would like to salvage it before marking it bad.

Here is an example: 

My Seagate 251 has a bad block at cyl=376, sec=2, hd=5, drive=0.

This also shows up in the /usr/adm/unix.log as belonging to logical blk 14041
of the filesystem (/dev/rfp002).

/etc/iv -t /dev/rfp000 yields:

Winchester disk
Volume Name: WINCHE
820 Cylinders. 6 Heads per Cylinder.
There are 17 Physical Sectors (of 512 bytes) per Track.
	102 Physical Sectors per Cylinder, 83640 Physical Sectors per Disk.
There are 8 Logical Blocks (of 1024 bytes) per Track.
	48 Logical Blocks per Cylinder, 39360 Logical Blocks per Disk.
The Step Rate supplied to the Controller is 0.
Partition 0: start Track=0, size (in Blocks)=48	      <- This is the whole disk
Partition 1: start Track=6, size (in Blocks)=4000     <- This is swap
Partition 2: start Track=506, size (in Blocks)=35312  <- This is the Unix FS
Loader starts at Block 2 (size=23 Blocks).
Bad Block Table starts at Block 1 (size=1 Blocks).
The Bad Block Table contains 8 entries.

Here is how you calculate the logical block from cyl/head/sector:

	376 (cyl) * 48 (logical blks/cyl)  = 18048 (logical blks)
	 5 (head) * 8 (logical blks/track) =    40 (logical blks)
	 2 (sector) / 2 (sectors/logical blk) =  1 (logical blks)
					    ------
					     18089 (logical blk in fp000)
	 506 (start track) * 8 (logical blks/track) =
					      4048 (logical blk start of fs)
					    ------
					     14041 (logical blk in fp002)

To figure out where the bad block is:
	1. Calculate logical block offset in fp002.
	2. Run "/usr/lbin/bf /dev/rfp002 14041", or whatever to get inode.
	   If nothing prints, that means block is free.
	3. Run "/etc/ncheck -i $INODE /dev/rfp002" to get file name.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Rob Stampfli  rob@colnet.cmhnet.org      The neat thing about standards:
614-864-9377  HAM RADIO: kd8wk@n8jyv.oh  There are so many to choose from.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: ncherry@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (neil j.cherry)
Subject: Re: Need help with a sick STARLAN card
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:33:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.185243.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.183331.12955@umbc3.umbc.edu>, hybl@umbc4.umbc.edu (Dr. Albert Hybl (UMAB-BIOPHYS)) writes:
>> I have a STARLAN card that fails its self test ... run without the 
>> external cables connected to the card. 
>>
>Am I wrong, or doesn't the self-test assume that there's some sort of external
>loopback arrangement set up among the DJ-45's on the card's back end?
>Must consult what doc's I have at home to see whether I can learn something
>useful to you from them.
>                                      -- Fred

The starlan card have the loopback designed into the card. Some software also
have loopback devices written into the software. Of course that has nothing
to do with this just added info.

NJC
From: steve@zero.com (Steve Urich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: DOS73 rescreening help!
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:20:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Beyonet - Zero Network


	Speaking about DOS-73 boards again. I would like to know why the
	screen refreshes on a the console when you use the DOS-73. Does
	it do this also from a tty port? I would like to know because
	I want to be able to link it to a tty port and it will be a
	dump ttytype. This will produce garbage with all the refreshing
	the DOS-73 does. Is there a way to turn this off and have it
	only send to the tty once but not twice? This is very annoying
	and I can't seem to get it to stop. 

	I really would appreciate any sort of help.
	Thanks alot. If there is any interest in this I will summarize.

	And now for broken lp info again :-). Back in the summer I re-did
	my HDs and partitioned off /tmp and /usr/spool plus others. Now
	I found that sprint wouldn't work because of it trying to link
	the /tmp/sprint.txt file across partitions and sysv won't allow
	that so all I had to do was rename the /tmp/sprint.txt file to
	something in /usr/spool and it worked. (Hi Floyd!)

	The DOS-73 program does a similiar thing with its print setup for
	the DOS-73 board. However I don't have enough of a /tmp filelength
	that they use in order to get it to work in /usr/spool the same
	way I did the sprint. Its basically the same problem because the
	DOS-73 working file is in /tmp and the braindamaged 3b1 lp is
	trying to link it across partitions again. Anyone know anymore 
	about how to hack binarys with adb besides just swapping out the
	ascii text like I do? :-) I guess it gets real serious (for me
	anyway) when you actually change and lengthen the path.

	Another good question for the binary hacker! :-)

	Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: Chris Navarrete <chrisn@water.ca.gov>
Subject: Unix PC Software
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75795898A028055@outerlimits.water.ca.gov>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 18 Dec 92 22:49:45 GMT
Organization: Calif. Dept. of Water Resources
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:48:14 GMT

Due to a disk failure, I had to replace my hard disk.  Unfortunately, my
backups were old and did not contain much of the software ICd acquired
over the past several years.  Would someone e-mail or let me know where
I can find the following:
  mahjong
  fasttype (or was is ltypefast)
  maze or amaze

Thanks in advance...
  BTW, I replaced my miniscribe with a mitusbishi (disk not car) and it
seems to be running pretty good.  Not bad for a $100 disk.
From: mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: help with internal modem
Date: 19 Dec 92 05:11:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: Ikkoku-K.MS-C.724741906.1103527590.mrc
Organization: University of Washington
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Mime-Version: 1.0

I recently picked up two 7300's.  I gave the better one to my girlfriend,
including the manual set, since the purpose of this purchase was for her to
learn about Unix system management.  I kept the little (1MB RAM, 10MB disk)
system for myself.

ua and the rest of the Office has been flushed from the little system, and the
development stuff (and certain essentials such as emacs and kermit) installed
in its place.  So it's a little hacker system, with about 2MB of free disk
space.  That's OK; I have a NeXT for my real work.  But, it turns out that
there is actually some useful work to put the 7300 to do here, so it won't
just be gathering dust.

Now the questions:
 1) Does anyone have an extra copy of the User's Manual (the one with sections
    1, 2, and 3 of the Unix manual) that they are willing to sell?  I tried
    calling AT&T to order a copy.  They had a good laugh.  There's enough
    differences between SysV and the BSD clone that the NeXT runs that the
    NeXT man pages aren't all that helpful.  I wouldn't mind getting a copy
    of whatever manual has sections 5 and 8 as well.

 2) I have incoming modem access working, but outgoing isn't working.  I'm
    trying to use kermit for this.  Here's what happens:
	$ kermit
	C-Kermit, 4E(070) 29 Jan 88, AT&T System III/System V
	Type ? for help
	C-Kermit>set modem-dialer att7300
	C-Kermit>set line /dev/ph0
	C-Kermit>set speed 1200
	/dev/ph0: 1200 baud
	C-Kermit>dial 5551212
	dialing:5551212 on line:/dev/ph0 at 1200 baud, speed:1200
	Sorry, connection not made. Error status: -7
	C-Kermit>

 3) I also had trouble making the RS232 port work, but I fixed it by shorting
    DTR (pin 20) to CD (pin 8).  Is there some reason why it insists upon
    seeing Carrier Detect?  Is this to keep the line from running open?

 4) Has anyone successfully ported teco to the 7300?  The emacs I have is
    microemacs which isn't quite adequate for all editing needs.  I tried
    porting the GenRad Ultrix teco but ran up against too many BSD/SysV
    incompatibilities, mostly in terminal ioctl()s.  I tried commenting them
    out and got something built, but the resulting binary wouldn't accept any
    input.

 5) Is there an FAQ, and where is it located?

Please respond via e-mail.