Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!cbnews!edo
From: edo@cbnews.ATT.COM (Eric D. Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: PLEASE HELP !!!!! (again)
Summary: I still need 850 info
Message-ID: <3866@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 89 22:35:01 GMT
References: <890206-040837-4184@Xerox>
Reply-To: edo@cbnews.ATT.COM (Eric D. Osborne)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <890206-040837-4184@Xerox> info-1100@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
>The "Worm" was the Xerox 820, not the 850. THe 850 was a pure Word
>Processor with "firmware" program, but functionality identical to the
>software-loaded 860.

Does this mean that the 850 used the CP/M directory structure, and the 
same document format as the 860? I called the Xerox Systems Institute 
(Thanks for that tip, Lee!), and they are sending the 860 document
format, but NO ONE I HAVE SPOKEN TO AT 5 XEROX LOCATIONS knows ANYTHING
WHATSOEVER about the 850. In point of fact, I made about 20 phone calls,
and several of them (about 6) ended up connecting to recorded messages 
telling me that there was no support for the 850. That's pretty obnoxious
when you are calling long distance numbers given to you by Xerox employees.
I mean, I know the thing is obsolete, but surely somebody has a manual
somewhere. 

Well, I don't mean to flame. I really appreciate the help I have been given
by the Xerox folks on the net. Without it, I would be completely in the dark.


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