CBBS(R) 4.0.2a 03/27/89 21:27:09 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 204112; next msg =41580; 476 active msgs. Prev. call 03/25/89 @ 23:29, next msg was 41566 Recording logon for next time. Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to abort. >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-30 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 11 KILLED. 74 SUMMARY. 30 03/26/89,12:35:03,204058,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41571, 03/26/89,12:37:46,204059,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, >Function:?type-50 log,ward c;or;*;short 03/25/89,23:29:54,204047,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41566, E#41567, E#41568,16 03/25/89,23:54:52,204048,2,JIM TEEK,,8 03/26/89,00:55:02,204049,2,RONE EDWARDS,,2 03/26/89,01:04:00,204050,2,MICHAEL BOROWIEC,naprville/ il, 03/26/89,05:11:32,204051,2,ALEX ZELL,, 03/26/89,06:35:32,204052,1,ROBERT JOHNSON,,3 03/26/89,08:00:17,204053,2,ROY FELTNER,,1 03/26/89,08:10:26,204054,2,ROY FELTNER,,1 03/26/89,09:32:51,204055,2,TOM KOWALCZYK,,3 03/26/89,10:46:11,204056,1,THOMAS STUTESMAN,ELGIN, E#41569,10 ]I WOULD LIKE TO GET A BBS SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR MY COMPANY, ANY SUGGESTIONS??????????????? THANKS THOMAS STUTESMAN, 03/26/89,10:59:21,204057,2,BILL TANEY,, E#41570,2 03/26/89,12:35:03,204058,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41571, 03/26/89,12:37:46,204059,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 03/26/89,12:39:16,204060,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41572, 03/26/89,12:53:32,204061,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41573,7 03/26/89,14:30:51,204062,2,BILL TANEY,,1 03/26/89,15:36:06,204063,3,RICHARD DIFFIN,, 03/26/89,16:11:58,204064,3,LEX LUTHOR,, 03/26/89,17:07:39,204065,1,DENNIS LEONG,,2 03/26/89,17:36:53,204066,2,MIKE ROSE,,2 03/26/89,18:08:39,204067,1,SCOTT ANDERSON,,15 03/26/89,18:30:30,204068,1,ANDY SHAPIRO,, E#41574,10 03/26/89,19:05:26,204069,1,THOMAS STUTESMAN,,6 ]THANKS WARD, I WILL TRY YOUR SUGGESTION AND GET BACK TO YOU, I SAW A REFERENCE TO THE COM1:1200 (COMMAND), HAVE YET TO MAKE IT WORK, I'LL GET BACK, THANKS ONCE MORE....... THOMAS STUTESMAN, 03/26/89,19:15:34,204070,2,BILL COLEMAN,,6 ]Hi, Ward. CBBS ran fine for me except that it took 10-15 seconds to wake it up when I logged on. No big thing but I thought I'd let you know. Your board continues to give me great pleasure. Regards, BC. BILL COLEMAN, 03/26/89,19:45:05,204071,2,JOHN LIN,,2 03/26/89,20:07:38,204072,1,JOHN DAVIDS,, 03/26/89,20:13:19,204073,2,PAUL ERICKSON,,4 03/26/89,21:24:32,204074,2,JAMES SCHMIDT,,1 03/26/89,22:47:48,204075,3,BILL WOLFF,,7 03/26/89,23:35:48,204076,3,FRANK SPIVEY II,chicago,36 03/27/89,00:06:33,204077,2,BILL MATTSON,,9 03/27/89,00:22:03,204078,2,BILL MATTSON,,8 03/27/89,00:47:26,204079,2,PAUL STREETER,, E#41575,32 03/27/89,01:09:24,204080,1,CEDRIC TUTXNLE,, 03/27/89,01:22:31,204081,2,JIM ANDERSON,,10 03/27/89,02:16:08,204082,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,, E#41576,11 03/27/89,07:09:01,204083,1,BARRY POLLACK,, 03/27/89,07:16:51,204084,1,BARRY POLLACK,,9 03/27/89,08:18:54,204085,2,ED FOSTER,, E#41577,7 03/27/89,09:10:11,204086,1,MIKE KAVADIAS,,3 03/27/89,09:23:31,204087,1,GILBERT KOZLOWSKI,Chicago/Ill, 03/27/89,09:28:09,204088,1,GILBERT KOZLOWSKI,,5 03/27/89,09:40:40,204089,2,GEORGE KOSTEN,, 03/27/89,09:46:52,204090,2,GEORGE KOSTEN,, 03/27/89,10:51:16,204091,1,COLIN SCHROEDER,,6 03/27/89,12:06:52,204092,2,ROGER HALE,,8 03/27/89,12:37:46,204093,2,ROGER HALE,, E#41578,11 ]Hi Ward. You might review msg 41578 I sent to Roy Liscomb about the ORIGINAL CBBS MODEM I have. Seeya, Roger ROGER HALE, 03/27/89,12:52:46,204094,1,THE HIGHLANDR,miramar, 03/27/89,12:58:37,204095,2,INGEMAR NORD,, 03/27/89,13:47:15,204096,2,GARY ELFRING,,1 03/27/89,14:06:14,204097,2,JEFF CLARK,Batavia/ IL,4 03/27/89,15:18:59,204098,2,BILL TANEY,,4 03/27/89,15:30:43,204099,2,RICHARD HINTON,,7 03/27/89,15:59:10,204100,3,BJOERN MACKE,HERRLJUNGA SWEDEN,3 03/27/89,16:08:56,204101,3,ALLEN NELSON NELSON,ELKGORVE,5 03/27/89,16:17:56,204102,1,SCOTT ANDERSON,,5 03/27/89,16:31:04,204103,1,ALLEN NELSON,ELK GROVE/IL,2 03/27/89,16:32:51,204104,1,SCOTT ANDERSON,,8 03/27/89,16:54:17,204105,2,GARY WOLF,, 03/27/89,17:22:56,204106,2,JIM POLOUS,,3 03/27/89,19:08:16,204107,2,JOANN BISCHOFF,River Grove/ IL, E#41579,6 03/27/89,19:55:33,204108,1,DAN HOBRECHT,den.colo,3 03/27/89,20:04:51,204109,1,CARL GIANGROSSO,,3 03/27/89,20:31:14,204110,1,FRED FRED,hoho, 03/27/89,21:07:58,204111,1,KEVIN KEYSER,,5 03/27/89,21:27:13,204112,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 41566 03/25/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ERIC BOHLMAN: "R/XMODEM CRC" 41567 03/25/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ERIC BOHLMAN: "R/IBMAUX1?" 41568 03/25/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ANDY SHAPIRO: "R/BOARD LEVEL REPAIR.!" 41569 03/26/89 THOMAS STUTESMAN => ALL: "NEED PROGRAMMING HELP ASAP" 41570 03/26/89 BILL TANEY => ALL: "ITECH SUPERBRAIN SYST DISK" 41571 03/26/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => THOMAS STUTESMAN: "BBS FOR WORK" 41572 03/26/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "CBBS 9600 BAUD!" 41573 03/26/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => THOMAS STUTESMAN: "R/NEED PROGRAMMING HELP ASAP" 41574 03/26/89 ANDY SHAPIRO => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/BOARD LEVEL REPAIR.!" 41575 03/27/89 PAUL STREETER => THOMAS STUTESMAN: "R/HELP" 41576 03/27/89 ERIC BOHLMAN => MICHAEL SZEWCZYK: "R/XMODEM CRC" 41577 03/27/89 ED FOSTER => ANDY SHAPIRO: "R/DISK" 41578 03/27/89 ROGER HALE => ROY LISCOMB: "ORIGINAL CBBS STUFF" 41579 03/27/89 JOANN BISCHOFF => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "SONKA CHICAGO LIST" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 41566 is 01 line(s) on 03/25/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ERIC BOHLMAN re: R/XMODEM CRC Why multiply by 2 to do a left shift? Just ADD! ;-) Msg 41567 is 08 line(s) on 03/25/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ERIC BOHLMAN re: R/IBMAUX1? IBMAUX1 is a dual-I/O driver - it looks for both local keyboard and via int 14, remote keyboard (allows running a remote dumb terminal, also, I'd thingk). All output is sent to both the RS-232 and to the local console. This allows - at a minimum - the local CRT to display all output, rather than just being "blank" while I'm in DOS doing house cleaning. However, I think one "hack" we'll probably try will be changing to shelling to command.com with a COM1: driver instead of ibmaux1. Msg 41568 is 19 line(s) on 03/25/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ANDY SHAPIRO re: R/BOARD LEVEL REPAIR.! I think the ability to fix your own machine is totally dependent upon the complexity of the problem. For example, at power up over the last 5 years I've had my PC, it has on 3 occasions given me a memory error (I don't mean to imply I didn't have any problems - the memory problems caused Parity Check msgs while I was running software - or when I had Periscope resident, it would think I was hitting the break out button). I was always fairly trivially able to replace the memory chip. However, later on, my breakout button for Periscope stopped working, and I found out that my NMI was in fact broken, meaning I'd never be able to detect a memory error again! There are about 5 chips in the parity check circuitry (from the bus-connector to the processor connector, but I couldn't find any way to really find which was at fault, and while I replaced one chip, I didn't solve it. The parity errors are much easier - and the easiest are the power-on messages telling you which chip is in trouble. I decided to replace the motherboard, and now have a one megabyte 8mhz 0-wait state 286 in my original PC. Works great, makes the system quite useable. Msg 41569 is 04 line(s) on 03/26/89 from THOMAS STUTESMAN to ALL re: NEED PROGRAMMING HELP ASAP the company i work for needs a program that will dial a modem and send back a msg if line bsy, three tone, or ans, i cannot find a routine in basic or c, from the books i have, that will do this pls help i have to get this done asap, like today! Msg 41570 is 02 line(s) on 03/26/89 from BILL TANEY to ALL re: ITECH SUPERBRAIN SYST DISK I have a Intertech Superbrain qd and need to get a cpm 2.2 system disk for it , if anyone has one PLEASE leave a message here Msg 41571 is 05 line(s) on 03/26/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to THOMAS STUTESMAN re: BBS FOR WORK I suggest leaving a msg to ALL. Define what you want/need: email? downloads? private msgs? public message board? (the latter being the only thing CBBS is). Also what security do you need? User IDs? Passwords? Good luck. Msg 41572 is 16 line(s) on 03/26/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ALL re: CBBS 9600 BAUD! CBBS is now fully operational with the new HST donated by US Robotics. Thanks to them, we can now handle 300, 1200, 2400, (4800? untested) and 9600. Output will seem slow at 9600 due to parallel local console being driven - PCs are notorious for their slow scrolling. ARQ (i.e. MNP) is supported also. Thanks to the interrupt driven RS232 routine, we're interrupt driven. RS232: by Mike Macgirvin, Mountain View, CA. This is v1.00 (8/7/86) I will try to (1) get the MSTATS routine back so you can all see the percentage of calls by speed; and (2) Randy wants a default of turning the local monitor off so it will scroll faster at 9600 baud. Thanks again, USR. Thanks Mike Macgirvin. P.S. this is STILL running in 8080 code, using Mike Day's V80-20. Gee: MIKE Day's V-20 routine, MIKE Andrews of USR arranged the modem donation, MIKE Macgirvin supplied the interrupt routine, MIKE Warot gave me IBMAUX1 (dual console driver) that initially allowed CBBS to move to a PC. ;-) Msg 41573 is 18 line(s) on 03/26/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to THOMAS STUTESMAN re: R/NEED PROGRAMMING HELP ASAP What kind of modem do you have? The newer modems all should have an extended result code which detects things like "busy", "no answer", "voice", etc. Then a simple routine - probably BASIC would be most easy - could simply send the dial strings to the modem and watch for the result codes. In BASIC you can talk to the modem via: open "com1:1200,n,8,1,rs,ds" as 1 then you can send strings to the modem via: print #1,"atdt5458086"+chr$(13) and can watch for input from the modem with: if loc(1) > 0 then x$=input(#1,loc(1):goto ___ (got input) Now you have to be a basic programmer to take these tidbits and turn them into a program! Also, I may have the #1,loc(1) reversed (may be loc(1),#1) in that input statement. I think the modems use the ATXn command to set the result code to a value that would give you the most verbose and informative answers to what it sees after dialing the call. Msg 41574 is 19 line(s) on 03/26/89 from ANDY SHAPIRO to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/BOARD LEVEL REPAIR.! I suppose you're right. But in MOST cases, it should be within the capability of the user to fix things. I began to adopt this perspective many years ago as a ham operator. I was 14 when the power supply in my rig (high volts, lots of tubes) began blowing fuses. I called up the local repair place, and they said, "Oh, $30 an hour plus parts, 2 hour minimum." I was able to isolate the problem as a $0.50 rectifier in the power supply. Since then, I have tried to avoid owning things I can't fix - or, in the alternative, I have tried to learn to fix that which I have. It makes for an eclectic education. As for the NMI stuff, the nice feature of NMI.COM is that it REPLACES the built-in NMI checks. If it hits an error at any point after it's installed, it tells you where the error is, by address, bank, and bit (chip). Lots easier than the POST information. There are probably other 'autodiagnostic' tools. We need a complete list of them, since diagnosis is the first step toward cure. On the other hand, the new motherboard sounds like a great idea. But you're talking to somebody who still does most of his work on a 4 MHz Z80 machine. Msg 41575 is 01 line(s) on 03/27/89 from PAUL STREETER to THOMAS STUTESMAN re: R/HELP The script language of Crosstalk Mark 4 can handle that. Msg 41576 is 19 line(s) on 03/27/89 from ERIC BOHLMAN to MICHAEL SZEWCZYK re: R/XMODEM CRC Here's a routine that should get you started. Your BASIC probably has better structuring facilities than the rather generic code here, but at least it's a start. Note that I'll be appending a "%" to names of variables that should be integers. 1000 rem update CRC value 1010 rem c=current character, crc=present crc value 1020 crc%=crc% xor (c% * 256) 1030 for i=1 to 8 1040 t=0 1050 if crc% and 32768 then t=1 1060 crc%=crc% + crc% 1070 rem thanks to Ward C. for suggesting the above 1080 if t<>0 then crc%=crc% xor 4129 1090 next i I'm assuming that you have an exclusive-or operator and that it's called "xor" (it might be "eor" on some systems). This is just a quick hack, but I THINK it will do the trick. Msg 41577 is 07 line(s) on 03/27/89 from ED FOSTER to ANDY SHAPIRO re: R/DISK Last week I was doing some work on a 10NET superstation, and while I didn't notice any overall slowdown, there were times when the cursor seemed to 'stick' to a spot; these times were during disk accesses by other stations. Something like that would be very noticable but still take only a small percentage of the available CPU time. Maybe that's what your customer was talking about. Msg 41578 is 12 line(s) on 03/27/89 from ROGER HALE to ROY LISCOMB re: ORIGINAL CBBS STUFF Hi Roy. Saw your message to Alex Zell and thought I would update you on the information I gave to Mike Andrews about the ORIGINAL CBBS modem I own. I bought it from Randy after it had problems after about the first 50,000 calls. I then paid to have the manufacturer repair it for me and used it in my early ALTAIR 8800 for almost a year. I used it until I went to an external modem, but to the best of my recollection I started to have some problems with the auto answer feature. I just thought I would clear up the confusion about Randy "loaning" it to me. It is one one my most prized posessions, but I have talked to Mike Andrews about the posibility of submitting it for the "Smithsonian Project". SEEYA, Roger Msg 41579 is 07 line(s) on 03/27/89 from JOANN BISCHOFF to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: SONKA CHICAGO LIST Please remove: OPUS ??? 383-5939 (Oak Park) The Greenhouse {690} from the SONKA list. Please inform Mr. SONKA also that the person who now holds this subscriber # has been getting carrier calls for months now and is/has lost her patience. dup. chars. >Function:?