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From: naraht@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Randolph J. Finder)
Newsgroups: alt.education.disabled
Subject: fraternities and the disabled
Date: 11 Jan 93 04:04:08 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

Looking for experiences involving fraternities and the disabled.

Particular emphasis, I am interested in helping my fraternity
return to the campus of Galludet U. 


Randy Finder


-- 
(naraht@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu)	  | Leadership,Friendship, and Service
(vri_rjfin@dmis.ha.osd.mil)	  |          Alpha Phi Omega
"The service we render to others  | National (Co-ed) Service Fraternity
 is the rent we pay for our room on earth" - Sir Wilfred Grenfell
From: lizhk@mala.bc.ca (a lumpkins work is never done. Local 394)
Newsgroups: alt.education.disabled
Subject: speech synthesizer
Date: 12 Jan 93 09:38:16 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College

Can anyone recommend a software/hardware product for an IBM computer
that does the following...
1) speach synthesis.  It must be able to read a text file and produce
the text into speach.
2) it must be easy to use and not require too complicated hardware or
software.
3) the hardware should, if possible, be standard, ie: something that will
work with other programs.
4) the software should be able to work with different wordprocessors.
5) portability is important.  We'd like to be able to load it into
a portable computer.
6) this will be installed in a portable computer that several different
students will use.  So the training required should be minimal and user
friendly!

Thanks!!

Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa
Instructional Computing
Malaspina College
ph:(604)753-3245
fax:(604)755-8725
Email: LIZHK@MALA.BC.CA
From: koningj@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Gert Koning)
Subject: Need info: University tuition systems
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:46:57 GMT
Organization: University of South Africa

The University of South Africa is a distance teaching institution that
has been in existance from 1946. It has 120 000 students none of which
are campus based - all tuition is through correspondence. Although the
university teaches through correspondence, it still has a fixed academic
year of twelve months, January through December.

The huge number of students and the projected growth of our student
population necessitates an urgent investigation of this university model.
UNISA is currently investigating the possibility of an open system of
registration where the student registers at any time according to his/her
particular circumstances and sit for an examination when ready. There are
other universities that operate according to similar tuition systems.
Information pertaining to such institutions (Location, Contact Person,
Fax number, etc.) is urgently required.

Can you help? Please reply by E-mail to koningj@risc1.unisa.ac.za.

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Gert Koning (koningj@risc1.unisa.ac.za)
Department of Computer Services
University of South Africa - Pretoria - RSA
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Newsgroups: alt.education.distance
From: patth@panix.com (Patt Bromberger)
Subject: Re: Trends
Summary: Using GOPHER and VERONICA
Cc: lexy@ac.dal.ca
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:01:06 GMT


In article <1993Jan6.150043.9922@ac.dal.ca> lexy@ac.dal.ca writes:
>I am looking for seminal articles on future trends in course offerings
>delivered by distance education.
>Please direct your response to:
>lexy@ac.dal.ca
> [deleted]


Cathy,

Ask your system administrator if GOPHER is available at your site; you
can do a search and find volumes of information online about distance
education; it's customary to offer to "sumamrize" for the net, any 
information that is sent to you as a result of your request :-)

Good luck!

>


-- 
Patricia Ann Bromberger                            patth@panix.com
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain. And pick flowers in 
other people's gardens And learn to spit. -- "Warning" by Jenny Joseph
Newsgroups: alt.education.distance
From: fak9957@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (President Seth Green Fan Club)
Subject: ESP '93 Videoconferences
Reply-To: fak9957@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:44:27 GMT

                     Rochester Institute of Technology
                    College of Imaging Arts and Science
                        Office of Distance Learning

        Electronic Still Photography (ESP '93) Videoconference Series
                      Scheduled for April and May 1993

Photographers and anyone who uses photographs, take note: ESP '93, a series of
live-via-satellite interactive videoconferences on electronic still photography
is scheduled to be broadcast from the Rochester Institute of Technology
beginning April 15, 1993.  Other dates are: April 22, 29, May 6, 1993.

The 4-part series will explore the future of this fast-breaking photography
field.  Topics will include: electronic cameras, computerized photography
capture and storage, and electronic 'darkrooms' created via PCs and software.
Printers, artists, educators, and administrators in fields using photography,
as well as photographers themselves, will find topics of interest.

The host for ESP '93 is Douglas Ford Rea, international lecturer and assiciate
professor in Applied Photography and Electronic Still Imaging.

All four ESP '93 videoconferences will be closed-captioned for deaf and
hard-of-hearing individuals.

For more information and fees for the series, including videotaping rights,
satellite coordinates and print materials, call 716-475-7457 or fax at
716-475-5077.  The electronic mail address is disted@ritvax.isc.rit.edu.
From: lexy@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.education.distance
Subject: Trends
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:00:43 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I am looking for seminal articles on future trends in course offerings
delivered by distance education.

Please direct your response to:

lexy@ac.dal.ca

or by regular mail to:

Cathy Vaughan
The Centre for Public Management
6100 University Avenue
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5

Tel. (902) 494-1256
From: atkinson@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au (Roger Atkinson)
Newsgroups: alt.education.distance
Subject: Book "Quality in Distance Education"
Followup-To: alt.education.distance
Date: 13 Jan 1993 04:20:42 GMT
Organization: Murdoch University External Studies
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: esumac15.csu.murdoch.edu.au

"Quality in distance education: ASPESA Forum 91" contains 62 papers
presented at the Tenth Biennial Forum of the Australian and South Pacific
External Studies Association, held at the Mitchell Campus of Charles Sturt
University, Bathurst, NSW, 15-19 July, 1991. Original papers have been
scanned and fully edited for publication in this 530 page book in B5
format.

Is there a definitive model of quality?  How are quality improvements
achieved?  Providers and practitioners of distance education and open
learning will find in this book an extensive debate on quality issues,
reports on a wide variety of practices and techniques pertaining to quality
improvement, and an insight into future directions in the evolution of
distance education.

Atkinson, Roger, McBeath, Clare and Meacham, David (eds) (1991).  
Quality in distance education: ASPESA Forum 91.  Bathurst, NSW: 
Australian and South Pacific External Studies Association.
Paperback B5. pp. viii+522. ISBN 0 646 08857 2

Price in A$ including packing and postage:
    Australia $35
    Other countries surface mail $45
    Other countries economy air mail $55
For overseas orders, please specify surface or economy air despatch.  To
obtain "Quality in Distance Education", a purchase order, or your order
with enclosed payment to ASPESA may be sent to:

John Hardie, ASPESA Publications Officer
Open Training and Education Network
199 Regent Street
Redfern NSW 2016
Australia
Tel 02 318 4564  Fax 02 318 4568

or email orders quoting an institutional purchase order may be sent to
    atkinson@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au

All payments, whether by cheque with your order or by invoice from ASPESA,
must be in Australian dollars. ASPESA's mailing address is:
    Australian and South Pacific External Studies Association
    PO Box 7359, Lismore Heights NSW 2480 Australia
Tel 066 203 017.  Fax 066 203 022
Other ASPESA publications and membership information may be obtained from
Ms Chris Game, ASPESA Treasurer and Memberships Officer, at that address.
-----------------
Dr Roger Atkinson
Acting Director of External Studies, External Studies Unit,
Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150.
Voice +61 9 360 2240 fax +61 9 310 4929  atkinson@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: Jens.Nilsson@malmo.trab.se (Jens Nilsson)
Subject: customer control for 800 service
Organization: Telia Research, Malmo, Sweden
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:27:33 GMT

Hi does anyone know if someone is offering the possibility
for a customer to control his call distribution to his 800
numbers. For instance can a customer himself change during
which time a call will terminate at number A and not number
B or does the customer need to contact his telecom operator
so that the operator can make the change.


Thanks for the information

Jens Nilsson

e-mail jens.nilsson@malmo.trab.se
 
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: kingpin@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Joe Smooth)
Subject: Help with Novatel transportable
Organization: None
Distribution: alt
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:26:40 GMT

I need help identifying the microprocessor used in a Novatel Transportable 
that I have.. Themicroprocessor chip says the following on it:

	9049AV Z90071 VC5055-0001
	Novatel 1CPU

it also uses a 27C512 EPROM..

	I am hoping that it is compatible with any of the intel 808x series..
If anyone has ANY information on what kind of chip this is, or anything at
all, please reply to me at kingpin@gnu.ai.mit.edu.... Thanks a lot!
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Organization: large
Date: 12 Jan 1993 12:53:58 EST
Expires: 1 Apr 93 12:34
Subject: Mother Nature takes on UDS V.32.
From: hobbit@babyoil.ftp.com (*Hobbit*)

We had one whose power supply started producing way over its nominal 5 volts.
UDS sent it back with a nice letter stating that it was so completely hosed
as to be unfixable, with a lot of those little paper arrows all over the
board pointing to parts they'd replaced in the failed attempt.

But I don't think it was lightning, these ol' things are just plain touchy.

_H*
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: brc@halcyon.com (Brian Cartmell)
Subject: HELP with Motorola Micro-Tac
Organization: Encryption
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:23:30 GMT

Does anyone know what pins on a motorola micro-tac
put into test mode, it has 8 pins plus a grnd.

Thanks,
-Brian

Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: James.Gorak <James.Gorak@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: Re: customer control for 800 service
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:24:33 GMT

In <1993Jan7.152733.1022@malmo.trab.se> Jens.Nilsson@malmo.trab.se (Jens Nilsson) writes:

>Hi does anyone know if someone is offering the possibility
>for a customer to control his call distribution to his 800
>numbers. For instance can a customer himself change during
>which time a call will terminate at number A and not number
>B or does the customer need to contact his telecom operator
>so that the operator can make the change.

Yes this type of service is available from the main 800 service
providers (AT&T, MCI & USSprint). The customer has a terminal
connected to the service provider by a dial-up or leased line.
Complex routing trees with many teminating locations can be
created. decision nodes include time of day, day of week, 
originating area code, percent allocation and command nodes
which are turned on or off from the customer's termanal.

Some very large customers now have an SS7 connection between
the 800 service provider and the customer's computer which
permits call by call routing controlled by the customer's
computer 
-- 
James.Gorak@mixcom.com
From: bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: customer control for 800 service
Date: 11 Jan 93 05:28:41 EDT
Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc.

In article <1993Jan7.152733.1022@malmo.trab.se>, Jens.Nilsson@malmo.trab.se (Jens Nilsson) writes:
> Hi does anyone know if someone is offering the possibility
> for a customer to control his call distribution to his 800
> numbers. For instance can a customer himself change during

For the small shop, or a personal 800 number that you wish to follow you
as you travel, C&W has had for a LONG time a service where you can change
where your number goes simply by dialing another 800 number and entering
your password and new instructions. Cheap, too.
From: bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Mother Nature takes on UDS V.32.
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:28:03 EDT
Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc.

In article <1993Jan10.044936.7909@rtfm.mlb.fl.us>, luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey) writes:
> The joys of living in florida!.
> 
> Last night a lightning strike took out two v.32 modems I had set
> up in my house.  And yes, they were run through a lightning protector.

Yes, but what kind of protection and how well grounded, and was there a 
last ditch protector for BOTH power and phone near the equipment
close coupled to a COMMON GOOD ground. There is no such thing as 
'good enough' ground. At least if protectors for both services are close 
coupled to the same 'ground', you can limit damaging potentials within your 
equipment.

At your service entrance, you want really heavy duty lightinng arrestors
dumping to a substantial ground. These may not be as fast as other things you
deploy but should be able to handle lots of energy.

Farther inside, the whimpier but faster spike suppressor stuff gets deployed.
You never have enough.

If telco is using 2 electrode carbon or even gas tubes, that can actually 
hurt you. You want 3 electrode gas tubes where each phone line enters.
Don't ever remove their protection even if you can't get them to 
improve it. Just add yours after it and use the telco CO grade stuff.

Doing it 'right' would have cost a lot less that what you have lost. 
Doing it right is NOT just getting a power and phone protecting power strip
at the corner hardware store.

What did you use? Did it die trying, or does it think everything is just 
fine and dandy after having let its protectees die?

There are plenty of external things you may not be able to control.
If you are fed off a transformer on the LAST pole down a long transmission line,
watch out. Far better if the edison folks extend the primary to one more
otherwise useless pole, and put well grounded primary arrestors THERE
at the end as well as feeding your transformer one pole back via arrestors.

They probably will have no protectors on the secondary, but you should have 
something at your service panel. $50 gets you an electrical supply house
grade GE protector. Shopping can get you a Delta silicon carbide deep
well submersible pump protector that has the same voltage ratings but is 
heavier and for less $s. Their hefty oil well rig motor protectors are 
wonderful, but for the wrong voltages. Just get the proper voltage unit 
in the same product family. For $35 it will laugh at what would trash 
any whimpy power strip MOV.

At least 2 of the better power strip class protectors now offer insurance.
Read the fine print and comply, but also add heavy front door protection
at the service entrances, yourself.
From: wvogel@MtHolyoke.edu (keeper of the tone)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Mother Nature takes on UDS V.32.
Date: 10 Jan 1993 00:15:02 -0500
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
NNTP-Posting-Host: slab.mtholyoke.edu
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

try newark eletronics for the relays and graingers for the power supply

Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey)
Subject: Mother Nature takes on UDS V.32.
Summary: Impact of the forces of nature on a modem.
Keywords: zap
Organization: We don't need no stinkin' batches!
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:49:36 GMT

The joys of living in florida!.

Last night a lightning strike took out two v.32 modems I had set
up in my house.  And yes, they were run through a lightning protector.
The strike also made my two line phone into a one line phone with
additional 2nd line force busy option, and changed one of my TVs
into a video (no sound) monitor.  Sigh.

Anyway, One of these modems is a prototype v.32 that Digicom made
for Ark Electronics.  The power transformer is dead.  The other
V.32 is a UDS V.3225.  It seems to almost completely work.  It
powers up, it can run an AT&T0 loopback with no problems.  An ATA
makes plenty of noise.  But when you do an ATDT, all I hear is 
static.  My guess is that one of the relays is toast.

I suspect that lightning came in the power.  took out the digicom,
the proceeded thru the phone lines to take out other stuff.

So now I need some questions answered.

1) Could UDS fix this modem for a reasonable price ( <$100 )
2) barring that, can I find replacements for the relays
   which are a type I've never seen before.  These are
   ETAL P1200's.  I suspect they are solid state relays
3) Does anyone know the pinout of the 10V 2 Amp AC power
   transformer used by the old 12"x12"x4" sized digicom
   V.32.  I have to see what happens if power is applied
   before seeing how damaged it is.

Any info people might have would be appriciated.
From: milsh@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc
Subject: TEST: no feed
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:56:04 GMT
Organization: Mass General Hospital Imaging Center

JUST A TEST

ALEX
-- 
Alexander M. Milshteyn M.D.   <milsh@cipr-server.mgh.harvard.edu>
CIPR, MGH in Boston, MA.     (617)724-9507 Vox  (617)726-7830 Fax
From: milsh@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc
Subject: test
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:49:29 GMT
Organization: Mass General Hospital CIPR Imaging Center

test
-- 
Alexander M. Milshteyn M.D.   <milsh@cipr-server.mgh.harvard.edu>
CIPR, MGH in Boston, MA.     (617)724-9507 Vox  (617)726-7830 Fax
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
From: jollie@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey C. Ollie)
Subject: Re: New UU newsgroups - Russian & Linux
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:06:33 GMT
Organization: The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Followup-To: alt.uu.future

In article <1993Jan8.084535.4620@nntp.hut.fi>, jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki
Kuoppala) wrote:
> 
> 
> The "alt.uu.comp" hierarchy was mostly formed for "practical courses"
> - topics might include learning different programming languages,
> learning to use Usenet and Internet and so on.  I think the more
> university-like stuff (OS theory, computer theory, cryptology and so
> on) should be under something like "alt.uu.compsci" or "alt.uu.cs".
> 
> //Jyrki

Are there people out there interested in a "alt.uu.cs" hierarchy with
subgroups corresponding to the ACM CS undergraduate curriculum?
Something along the lines of help with homework/problems, etc.  Perhaps
there could also be a repository of sample test questions/answers for
help in studying.

Anyone interested?
 
--
Jeffrey C. Ollie
jollie@herky.cs.uiowa.edu
"The Happy User"
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
From: jollie@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey C. Ollie)
Subject: Re: New UU newsgroups - Russian & Linux
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:22:04 GMT
Organization: The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Followup-To: alt.uu.future

In article <1993Jan7.132223.14647@nntp.hut.fi>, jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki
Kuoppala) wrote:
> alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions	UU Linux learning group - the Q&A column
> 
> This group is an educational group aimed for learning and teaching of
> Linux by questions and answers.
> 
> //Jyrki

Why such a narrowly focussed group?  In regular universities, you teach
general
operating systems concepts.  Linux might be used as a vehicle for teaching
those concepts, but the concepts will be applicable to VMS, 4.3 BSD,
Multics,
etc.  There already exists a Linux group (comp.os.linux &
comp.os.linux.announce).  This seems to me to be unecessary duplication.  A
group called alt.uu.comp.os, dedicated to Q&A about general operating
systems
theory would be more appropriate.

Jeff Ollie
jollie@herky.cs.uiowa.edu
Xref: sparky alt.uu.future:309 alt.uu.tools:42
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.uu.tools
Subject: Outline for a UU tools document
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:32:27 GMT
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

This should become a document with brief descriptions of the tools
essential or useful in the UU environment, including pointers to where
to get more information (Usenet newsgroups, ftp archives, gopher
directories, addressess).  Any input and ideas are welcome.

Internet services:

- gopher
- www
- nntp (open servers)
- MUDs etc.
- dialin ports
- for-pay dialin ports
- wais
- irc
- ftp archives
- telnettable databases and other services (dra.com / library of congress)
- more information: alt.internet.services

Mail services:

- anonymous remailers
- mail address queries
- UU consultants list
- mail ftp gateways
- X.400

Usenet services

- news.announce.newusers
- news.answers
- alt.internet.services
- newsgroup archives
- anonymous services

Projects

- Gutenberg
- Freelore
- GNU
- Linux

Computing tools:

- Linux
- GNU: gcc, emacs, GNU info, man
- Unix

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Study groups via UU
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:07:45 GMT

You've decided to learn about computer theory on your own, by reading
books.  You are going to an exam to get credits for the topic, and
your university has a list of the issues required for the exam and a
list of possible books to use.  You want to use the Usenet University
to help you.  Here are some ideas on how to do this.

1. Forming a study group

Announce your plan on the UU newsgroups (for example alt.uu.future and
alt.uu.comp.misc) and ask if other people share some of your goals and
are willing and able to use UU.  Gather a group of people willing to
learn the same subject - it won't be necessary for all to plan an exam
to have, but sharing goals will help.  Others should have access to
books or other material on the topics - not necessarily the exact same
books you have access to.

2. Negotiating how to study

Compare requirements of the exams and goals, decide amongst the group
what to cover in the group.  This can be done on one of the UU groups
- new participants might come in at this time, some might decide to
not go with the group.  Plan how to use the group - if keywords are
used on subject lines, etc.  Plan what each will do.  Plan how you
will divide work, what exactly are the goals of the project (ie.
whether material for "later generations" will be produced or whether
it'll be mostly throw-away discussions and summaries).  Decide what
tools to use, etc.

3. Proceeding with the group work

Let's say you divide the topic to parts on which each people will at
first write a short outline of the topic, have it commented by others
and then proceed to write a longer summary of her part, possibly with
exercises for others.  Different people will have different books and
approaches, so it is reasonable to have many persons on each fields.
Discuss difficult topics, comment on other people's work.

4. Make a summary of the work done

If you decided to go for writing lasting material for also others to
use, edit the material produced together to fit in one document
covering all of the topic area, archive it in one of the UU archives
for later generations.

5. Make a report on the effort

Write a summary on how the project went.  Descibe weaknesses, what
went wrong, what went well, what ideas came too late to implement,
what pitfalls to avoid.
Xref: sparky alt.uu.future:306 alt.education.distance:454 misc.education:5675 comp.edu:2281