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From: Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: PC bulletin boards in bay area
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Date: 7 Jan 91 04:40:29 GMT
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Thad responded to my reply.  I haven't gotten good at including things like
his reply.  My general concern is who defines what belongs to what.  I have
been studying like crazy to get pcomm to run on my machine so I can use 
the BBS's [666 of them] in Washington D.C.  The BBS's in the Bay Area have
the indices to those in not only D.C. but all over the world. The BBS's
are reachable with the unix-pc. This even without the DOS card. I do have
a DOS  card for mine, if I can get it to work.
  I was having success getting pcomm to work so I bought a Telebit T2500
modem for $1150.00 so I could get greater speed to the Bulletin Boards 
with my unix-pc. 
  Thus I though that the querry about BBS's in the Bay Area was quit 
germain to the topic. 
  I had a little success at getting the unix-pc to contact the BBS's with
the Telebit T2500 so I went and bought a new 3b1 motherboard and a 3b1
power supply and installed those. That was how I had the old one laying 
around loose to take to the meeting.
  I greatly enjoy reading the unix-pc stuff, even though it is usually far
over my head, but maybe I'll learn if I keep reading, I hope.
  I took the machine apart 5 to 10 times over Thanksgiving and several times
over Christmas and New Years.  Put in the new Motherboard, put in  the new
power supply. Disassembled adjusted the video plug into 14 components at
least twice.  Last time I put in upside down and blew the monitor. 
  Manfred Frey disassembled and checked much of the machine for half a 
day Saturday before last. Some time the thing would go, other times not.
He says he can't find any high voltage in the monitor. I called a guy
back east who has a monitor to sell. I told him if I can raise the money
I'll buy that from him.
  When I put in the new motherboard I then installed my 1.5 meg combo card
and my dos card. The machine said it had 3.5 meg.  I was exstatic until the
next day and it wouldn't boot.  
  I am not seeking an apology from Thad.  Obviously he had no way of knowing
what had happend. It was just one of those luck occurances. But isn't that
Murphy's Law. As soon as I open my mouth something will go wrong.
  I do think that both DOS and BBS's are useable on the unix-pc and unless
someone has the "official definition" of who can say what...

alvin
Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect.
G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.
Government Online Database Systems
Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks
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