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From: dave@galaxia.network23.com (David H. Brierley)
Subject: BOF session at January USENIX conference
Organization: Galaxia
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:40:25 GMT

OK.  I called USENIX this morning and scheduled a 3B1 BOF session for
Thursday, January 28, 8 to 10 PM.  They said the BOF list to be included in
the registration packets had already gone to the printers but that the BOF
would be listed on the board in the registration area.  Hope to see many of
you there!!

Here is a copy of the description that I sent to the folks at USENIX:

============================================================================

AT&T 3B1/7300 Users Gathering

David H. Brierley, Raytheon Company

This is the "annual" gathering of folks that either own or are interested in a
machine known as the AT&T 3B1, or AT&T PC-7300, or AT&T Unix-PC.  It is not
three different machines, just one machine with three names.  Since we are not
big enough to have our own user group meetings we just have BOF sessions at
other peoples meetings.

The AT&T 3B1/7300 computer is a small 68010 based UNIX machine, originally
intended by AT&T for an office environment.  It did rather poorly in the
marketplace and around 1986 AT&T decided to discontinue the product and dumped
their remaining stock onto the market at "firesale" prices.  As a result, the
machine became fairly succesfull as a home hobbyist machine.  Unfortunately,
since the machine is discontinued their is absolutely no support from AT&T so
the only "support" available is through USENET news and these informal
gatherings.
-- 
David H. Brierley
Home: dave@galaxia.network23.com; Work: dhb@quahog.ssd.ray.com
Send comp.sources.3b1 submissions to comp-sources-3b1@galaxia.network23.com
%% Pardon me Professor, can I be excused, my brain is full. **
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From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: Sendmail problem on AT&T unix 7300 (3b1).
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:40:03 GMT
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL

According to lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly):
>On the other hand there have been several versions of smail.

True, but...

>smail 3 was also known as smail 2.5.

The only context in which Smail 2.5 is known as "smail3" is that the
old comp.sources.unix archive has it stored under that name.

>There is also a completely different smail 3.x which is currently
>somewhere around 3.1.27.1 (no doubt several smail fans will rush to
>provide different numbers).

Quite.. the current version is 3.1.28 (the fourth number never changes
in public releases, it's just for private testing).
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
  "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
Xref: sparky comp.sys.workstations:4 comp.lang.postscript:6146
Organization: TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology.
Date: Monday, 4 Jan 1993 19:45:21 IST
From: Erik Engdahl <CHR05EE@TECHNION.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.workstations,comp.lang.postscript
Subject:    DEC Ultrix workstation img file --> ps --> img

Dear reader,

On a DEC Ultrix workstation, I created a graph by the paint application
and got an img file. While in paint, I did "Capture portion of screen" and
I got a ps file for the graph. I deleted the img file. Now I want to
edit the graph. Is there a program to recreate an img file or is there
a ps editor?

Please E-mail your answer direct to me. If there is enough interest, I
will post a summary of the answers.

                     With best regards,
                             E
                 chr05ee@technion.bitnet
From: thia@sce.carleton.ca (Yong Thia)
Subject: TMS320C40
Summary: TMS320C40
Keywords: TMS320C40
Organization: Carleton University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:41:57 GMT

Hi! I have read some brouchures recently about a parallel C40 system
attached to the SUN SPARCstation Sbus. I was wondering whether it
is interfaced to one of the comm ports or the external buses (local or global)?
Any pointers will be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to build a parallel
C40 system myself. Is there any technical reports around that talks
about host to C40 interface?

Thanks in advance

Regards
Jimmy
From: rdg@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Gilpin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: RAVE, 14.3MHz, and TELCO
Date: 12 Jan 1993 01:29:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


This has been an interesting month for me.

I have gone through a lot of problems getting parts for my RAVE keyboard
adapter. (I bought it in kit form)  It took me nearly a month to get all
of the parts.  But it was sure worth it!  This keyboard is great.

As part of my parts parade, I ordered a DP3T swith and a 14.3 and 16 MHz
crystal.  Now I have all three installed.

The most amazing result so far is using these mods with TELCO.


With my switch set to 14.3, I set the baud rate for my terminal at 2100.

All is great.

TELCO seems to really flow along!

Well, I have more testing to do.

See you all!
-- 
Phrases.                          rdg@po.cwru.edu
Quotes.                           Robert Gilpin
Words.                            Call me Bob
Uninteresting stuff.                                                           
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From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Sidewriter (XB program)
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:01:57 GMT

In article <009662AC.E4632C40@GOMEZ.PHYS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu writes:

>Subject: SIDEWRITER
>     MAKE YOUR PRINTER PRINT SIDEWAYS!!
If you tried this program and got very frustrated, please note that line 120
of the main program had better be:


>120 FLAG=0 :: INPUT "TEXT FILE: DSK":F$ :: OPEN #1:"DSK"&F$,dispaly,
variable 80,input

(The "input" is required if your text file is disk-protected).

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From: meier@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Roland Meier)
Subject: Re: Telco questions
Cc: meier
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:41:29 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt

In article <srh3.726287639@Ra.MsState.Edu>, srh3@Ra.MsState.Edu (Steven R. Hollis) writes:
>
> ... irc, I have trouble with one line
> overwriting another before I get a chance
> to read it.
> ...
> Steve
>    

Hi, Steve!

I had the same problems using irc and solved them the following way: 

You must use a less powerful but hence more completely implemented terminal
emulation (i got it to work with vt52) than the 'ansi' one you probably used.

The problem seems to be that a number of screen-oriented unix-programs act
according to a system variable named TERM. If this contains 'ansi' or 'vt100',
they use commands included in these standards which scroll parts of the screen
or move blocks of it, so scrolling can be done by the terminal and hence is much
faster. Too bad that the implementations within TELCO don't support these
commands (perhaps someone could get the specifications for creating or modifying
TELCO's terminal emulations?)...

To switch to vt52 you must type 

 TERM='vt52'
 export TERM

to your unix shell. To make TELCO load vt52 you must either change your default
terminal in the auto-dialer (using the M command) or press FCTN-B while you are
in the terminal mode, then select the first option and there VT52. After
returning by ESC VT52 is loaded.

Using vt52 nothing can be printed invers any more. irc does scrolling by
rewriting the 2 status lines as well, so it always sends 3 lines for 1, but it
works. I have successfully used the emacs editor using vt52. It does screen
scrolling by completely rewriting the screen, so it is awfully slow even at 2400
baud, but it work as well. Perhaps you shoult try it instead of vi, which I
don't know.

I hope this helps, regards

Roland Meier

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From: rdg@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Gilpin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: OUCH!!!
Date: 12 Jan 1993 01:52:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


   I've had a MYARC HFDC for about a year now and decided
that it was time to back it up.  What a painful ordeal! 
    
   There were 2 choices in Backup.  The first was to back
up each directory separately, and the second was to do a
Complete backup.  I opted for the complete, since it would
save all files and directories.
   
   I knew this would probably use up about 20 disks so I
marched to the store and bought two new boxes.  (I was
actually excited to start backing up.)  Next I reformatted
all of the disks to get them prepared for their job.  After
a quick read of the manual I was ready to begin.  (I
thought this would be really easy because the manual said
that the backup could be done to multiple drives.) 
   
   I chose the otion to do a complete backup and BAM!, it
hit me.  This was going to take a VERY long time.  
   
   It seemed that formatting my disks was a waste of time
because the backup software formats the disks again.  Not
only was this bad but the special format that was put on
took 5 minutes and 10 seconds per disk!  The program said
that it was "preparing disk# 1 for backup." After
reformmating, the backing up commenced.  10 minutes of
downloading and the disk was full.  Then the program
"prepared" disk 2.
   
   After all backing up was done, 17 disks were full and 3
hours 15 minutes had passed!!!  The really sad thing is
that my hard drive was only filled to about 1/3 capacity!
   
   Since I now had a backup I decided to reformat my
hardrive.  I remembered that when I first formatted it I
just chose what the manual said was correct for most
drives.
   
   The manual also said that formatting should be done
several times at different settings and timed to find the
best.  This I didn't do the first time around so opted to
do it, in the hopes that I would get better performance.
Wrong!  No matter how I set the Interlace and the Step
rate, the formatting took the same time!  Even at
ridiculously wrong numbers.
   
   Thoroughly upset at this time, I decided to Restore all
of the information back onto the drive.  This was a quick,
pulse racing time of 1 hour 57 minutes.
   
   Needless to say, I will NEVER save anything to my
Harddrive without first saving it to a floppy!
   
   JEEEEESSSHHH!
 
-- 
Phrases.                          rdg@po.cwru.edu
Quotes.                           Robert Gilpin
Words.                            Call me Bob
Uninteresting stuff.
From: wixson@cis.uab.edu (Steve Wixson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer
Subject: Remove name from list
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:04:18 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet


     Please remove my name from the list.  Steve Wixson.  Address (uabsew01@uab.
bitnet).  Thanks
From: ti6hk@ap04.rz.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien - 3358 )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: OUCH
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:41:33 GMT
Organization: none
Originator: ti6hk@ap04.cip3a.tu-harburg.de

Hi there!

Concerning Robert Gilpin. I know that problem. My first backup took more
than 10 hours of time.... But it gets really nasty the first time I must
restore the Harddisk. The first bootsector from the backup wasn't correctly
saved. It took a lot of time to create a new bootsector to get my
data's back. So I find hardly the first bug of the HFDC. Sometimes it
produces faults on the lowlevel writeback to the Floppy. Had anybody the same
problem? Is it only a Softwarefault? What's the new Versionnumber of the
DSR-Eprom?

To Robert:
I solved that problem connecting a second Harddisk and writing a piece of 
Software for backing up from Harddisk to Harddisk. This backup needs 1.5 hours
for saving my data's (30 MBytes).

Henry
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From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: OUCH!!!
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:21:51 GMT

In article <1it888INN9mh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, rdg@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Gilpin) writes:
>
>   I've had a MYARC HFDC for about a year now and decided
>that it was time to back it up.  What a painful ordeal! 
>   JEEEEESSSHHH!
> 
Originally, the HFDC was supposed to have a tape backup option.  The hardware is
there, maybe (who knows?  Has anybody ever tested this?) but no software.
John Birdwell was going to write software for the HFDC, perhaps also for the tape
backup, but he died and the work was left unfinished.

If backing up to floppies seems too slow, take heart- what would you do if you
had to back up to cassettes?  :-)

Is there a built-in option to back up to another HD?  I realize that requires
another major investment in a second HD, but is it possible at all?
Somebody once mentioned here that, although on paper the HFDC can control 3 HDs,
at least the 3rd one is not available in practice.

All in all, MYARC is probably the worst thing that has ever happened to the poor
li'l 99/4A.

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From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Are we running out of time?
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:14:03 GMT

Two enthusiastic members of our UG recently bought a 486 and said goodbye
to the TI world.  One had a fancy and advanced TI system (which he is trying
to sell for the overinflated amount of $750  :-) and the other was one of the
most eloquent defenders of the TI-99/4A.

With 486 prices at $1500 including a 15" color monitor, and prices of TI-99/4A
upgrades so costly that many 99'ers cannot afford them or feel they cannot
justify such expenses, are we running out of time?  What do readers of the
group think?  
(please post, do not answer privately to my account.)

In the meantime, if anybody is interested in some inexpensive hardware and
software, books and magazines from my "extras, please, please, e-mail to me
and ask for a list...  I am trying to find a home for this extra stuff I have,
from a TI-99/4A complete unit (with all cables) for $15 through cartridges,
hardware, books, Micropendiums, 99'er Magazines, etc.
And I would gladly TRADE for items I can use!
From: meier@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Roland Meier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: Information needed
Date: 12 Jan 1993 07:03:09 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rbhp1.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de

In article <009664F3.E6D8D940@GOMEZ.PHYS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu writes:
> In article <1993Jan8.010703.7625@a.cs.okstate.edu>, boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone) writes:
> >From article <00966431.E31556C0@GOMEZ.PHYS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, by cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu:
> >> 
> >> 1.  I have a copy of the CorComp WriterEase word processor.  This is so
> >
> >but I have no idea where my copy is at the moment...
> 
> THIS is particularly helpful, of course!
> 
> >the disk protection on this one was unique... it could not be copied with
> >anything using a western digital controller.
> 
> Does that mean any of the Disk controllers for the 99/4A?
> Was it developed on another disk controller?
> 

I have a copy of it which is not copy protected and know where it is, but I have
not yet managed to get binary (program-) files to the Unix workstation I use for
mailing, since I don't have a working umodem to do XMODEM file transfers. Does
anyone else have a hint how this could be done, perhaps a uuencode-compatible
for the ti?

Otherwise it would have to be done via snail mail (as I understood the copyright
seems not to bother anyone in this case ...?)

BTW, the program Copy-C by Christopher Winter has successfully copied any copy
protected disk I have ever seen on the ti, including the Miller's Graphics ones.
It should be available via f***ware from any club archive, otherwise ask me.

All available controllers for the ti have a western digital controller, the
original ti has a WDC 1771, Corcomp, Atronic and BWG a 1773 and Myarc (I think)
a 2793.

Bye 

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From: boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone)
Subject: Re: Information needed
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 01:07:03 GMT

From article <00966431.E31556C0@GOMEZ.PHYS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, by cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu:
> I have 2 questions, any information you might have will be appreciated.
> 
> 1.  I have a copy of the CorComp WriterEase word processor.  This is so
> heavily protected that I am afraid to use it becuase if the original is
> damaged, there will be nothing left (Also, heavily protected programs make
> the disk drive work hard, a major sin in any computer user's book; I heard
> about disk drives that died as a result of an extened use of protected
> programs).  Anyway, can anybody tell me how to make a backup copy?  Has
> anybody had success in un-protecting the program?

I have it unprotected, but I have no idea where my copy is at the moment...
the disk protection on this one was unique... it could not be copied with
anything using a western digital controller.

Barry

(Writerease was written by the infamous "Galen Read" who is best known for
his disappearing act after collecting numerous orders for the ill-fated
Grand RAM card.)
-- 
Barry Boone -- boone@a.cs.okstate.edu

Gravity: It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
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From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Information needed
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:54:04 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.020917.478@a.cs.okstate.edu>, boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone) writes:
>From article <009664F3.E6D8D940@GOMEZ.PHYS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, by cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu:
>> In article <1993Jan8.010703.7625@a.cs.okstate.edu>, boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone) writes:
>
>>>the disk protection on this one was unique... it could not be copied with
>>>anything using a western digital controller.
>> 
>> Does that mean any of the Disk controllers for the 99/4A?
>> Was it developed on another disk controller?
>
>It had to have been created using a different controller (like an IBM or
>something)... a Copy II-pc card would have
>copied it pretty easily.
>

Can somebody give a short tutorial on the Copy II-pc?
Will it copy TI disks in single density?
Is it also an option for fast disk duplication (even not copy-protected,
just as a copying station for, say, UG library)?  If one get a cheap 8088 PC,
will it work there?
From: ewb6720@pacs.pha.pa.us ( Eric W. Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: Information needed
Summary: ENCODER/DECODER PROGRAM
	 CLINT PULLEY
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:19:46 GMT
Organization: Philadelphia Area Computer Society


> 
> I have a copy of it which is not copy protected and know where it is, but I have
> not yet managed to get binary (program-) files to the Unix workstation I use for
> mailing, since I don't have a working umodem to do XMODEM file transfers. Does
> anyone else have a hint how this could be done, perhaps a uuencode-compatible
> for the ti?
> 
> Otherwise it would have to be done via snail mail (as I understood the copyright
> seems not to bother anyone in this case ...?)
> 

There is a encoding and/or decoding program available for both the TI
99/4A and the MYARC GENEVE 9640. It was written by Clint Pulley and it
allows you to send binary files via Internet as ASCII text files.

The program for the TI 99/4A is named "	TIED " (TI ENCODER/DECODER).

The program for the MYARC GENEVE 9640 is named " GED " (GENEVE
ENCODER/DECODER)

Both of the programs should be on most BBS's that have TI/GENEVE files.



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From: boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone)
Subject: Re: ftp sites for programs?
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 03:50:46 GMT

From article <srh3.726288639@Ra.MsState.Edu>, by srh3@Ra.MsState.Edu (Steven R. Hollis):
>      Are there any ftp sites for TI-99/4a programs

you might look on cs910.cciw.ca in the /pub/u001 directory... there are a few
99/4a things in there, along with some Myarc 9640 files.

Barry

-- 
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Gravity: It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
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From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Information needed
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:42:01 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.010703.7625@a.cs.okstate.edu>, boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone) writes:
>From article <00966431.E31556C0@GOMEZ.PHYS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, by cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu:
>> 
>> 1.  I have a copy of the CorComp WriterEase word processor.  This is so
>
>but I have no idea where my copy is at the moment...

THIS is particularly helpful, of course!

>the disk protection on this one was unique... it could not be copied with
>anything using a western digital controller.

Does that mean any of the Disk controllers for the 99/4A?
Was it developed on another disk controller?

>
>Barry
>
>(Writerease was written by the infamous "Galen Read" who is best known for
>his disappearing act after collecting numerous orders for the ill-fated
>Grand RAM card.)

And after stealing all this money he protected his software so people wouldn't
pirate it..  Heheheh...
Am I right in guessing that the WriterEase was initially designed for that
GRANDRAM card, and eventually converted to work with the CorComp RAM card?
Was the CorComp RAM card similar to the GRANDRAM?

Being so heavily protected, it could only make a minimal, and rather marginal,
use of the RAM card, of course.  The program HAD to boot from drive one.

>-- 
>Barry Boone -- boone@a.cs.okstate.edu
>
>Gravity: It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
 ^^^^^^^
Yeah, Newton was a LAWYER!  :=)
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From: lilley@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Shannon Lilley)
Subject: TI Professional Computer for sale 
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:46:26 GMT

Shannon Lilley
lilley@spdc.ti.com

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From: srh3@Ra.MsState.Edu (Steven R. Hollis)
Subject: Telco questions
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:33:59 GMT

     Well, my roomate left and took 
his ibm with him, so I am using the
Ti-99/4a to keep up with my e-mail.
I am using the Telco program and I 
have a few questions.

     1.  Is there any way, when using
.vi, to get the screen windows to change
when you type past the first one like
it will with the Ti Word Processor.
I don't mind reading by jumping
from window to window but I cannot
see where to end my lines when typing.

     2.  When using a chat system, such
as irc, I have trouble with one line
overwriting another before I get a chance
to read it.  Why is this?  I regret to 
say that I have not got the documentatin
for the Telco program.  I think I have
it, but my printer isn't working right
I'll have questions about that later

Thanks a lot
Steve
   
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