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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Mon, 26 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  260
 
Today's Topics:
                     "Monochrome monitor Wanted"
                               "STacy"
                             2 Harddrives
                Adaptec + Seagate hard drive question
             Foreign exchange (was Re: Shareware Policy.)
                         Scientific plotting
                Screen Blanker in the style of 'Stars'
                             STACY - STE
                       Terminal desk accessory
                          wanted -- Specter
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Date: 26 Feb 90 07:02:32 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!uci-ics!ehood@tut.cis.ohio-stat
 e.edu  (Earl Wayne Jr. Hood)
Subject: "Monochrome monitor Wanted"
Message-ID: <25E8D488.19031@paris.ics.uci.edu>
 
        Does any body out there know where I can get a monochrome monitor
at a low price.  Any help will be appreciated: someone selling a used one,
mail order place, anything ...
 
email at ehood@paris.ics.uci.edu if possible.
 
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Date: 26 Feb 90 06:37:19 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!uci-ics!ehood@tut.cis.ohio
 -state.edu  (Earl Wayne Jr. Hood)
Subject: "STacy"
Message-ID: <25E8CE9F.18656@paris.ics.uci.edu>
 
        Hello, I'm wondering if any body can tell me about the STacy laptop
computer: price, speed, etc...
 
Lee (I'm using a friend's account)
Reply to: ehood@paris.ics.uci.edu
 
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Date: 26 Feb 90 06:09:41 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!carroll1!dnewton@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
 (Dave Newton)
Subject: 2 Harddrives
Message-ID: <1244@carroll1.cc.edu>
 
In article <292@trwrb.UUCP> root@trwrb.UUCP (root) writes:
>...The details are intended to help lay man like myself.
 
   I've never anted to lay men.
 
   Just a joke, really!  ;-D
 
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Date: 24 Feb 90 23:04:43 GMT
From: att!oucsace!bwhite@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Bill White)
Subject: Adaptec + Seagate hard drive question
Message-ID: <1152@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
 
        I have an ICD host adaptor with an Adaptec 4070 controller and
a Seagate 277R-1 (?) 28ms 65meg RLL hard drive.  My problem is I keep
getting a <SENSE $11> code.  No bad sectors, no data errors, just the
sense $11.  It happens on maybe one or two tracks on two (out of five)
partitions, but it makes me wonder if something might be wrong.
        Incidentally, it's always in the same place, so that rules out
cable errors or such.  Anyone know what this means?  The Adaptec 4070
manual says something about an "unrecoverable data field error" or some
such nonsense, but I have yet to lose any data whatsoever, even after
performing repeated read-write-verify cycles on some of the sectors in
question.
        BTW, why are all the tracks initialized to "lllllllll"...?
 
                                                Bill White
                                                bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu
 
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Date: 26 Feb 90 14:06:12 GMT
From: shlump.nac.dec.com!norge.enet.dec.com!chad@decwrl.dec.com  (Chad Leigh)
Subject: Foreign exchange (was Re: Shareware Policy.)
Message-ID: <8687@shlump.nac.dec.com>
 
I'd keep cash payments in dollars only.  It is very difficult for the
average Joe here in the US to either get foreign cash or to change it --
unlike in Europe, where every bank will do both buy and sell foreign
currency.  Only the bigger banks, airports, big-city banks will buy and
sell foreign curency in the US (my experience in the Boston area)
without a lot of hassle.
 
Chad
chad@norge.dec.com
DEC has no opinions!
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 10:02:44 GMT
From: Mr. Simon Mark Christie <XUUM23@
Subject: Scientific plotting
Message-ID: <$TGHRDBHKBCVG at UMPA>
 
I to would be very interested in a plotting program, especially with
.GEM and .IMG output - so as to allow importing into TeX documents.
 
Steve C.
xuum24
 
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Date: 24 Feb 90 01:46:29 GMT
From: att!oucsace!bwhite@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Bill White)
Subject: Screen Blanker in the style of 'Stars'
Message-ID: <1143@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
 
        Along the same thread, does anyone have the sourcecode for starstrk?
It's nice, but the effect of the stars "slowing down" near the edge of the
screen (actually they don't; they just don't speed up) is a little weird,
and I'd like to modify it if possible.
 
                                                Bill White
                                                bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu
 
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Date: 26 Feb 90 07:58:45 GMT
From: mcsun!sunic!lth.se!newsuser@uunet.uu.net  (Peter Tomaszewski)
Subject: STACY - STE
Message-ID: <1990Feb26.075845.18486@lth.se>
 
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HELP NEEDED!!!!!!!
 
 
I'm going to Germany, so I need prices and info on the following:
 
 
- What do the differrent STACY models cost in Germany, are they availeble yet?
 
 
- What do a ATARI STE cost in Germany, with mono-monitor.
 
 
 
Thanks
 
Send E-mail to: d88pt@efd.lth.se
 
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Date: 26 Feb 90 06:28:10 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari!caesar.cs.montana.edu!nero!icsu8053@tut.cis.oh
 io-state.edu  (Craig Pratt)
Subject: Terminal desk accessory
Message-ID: <3441@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
 
In article <25E74384.25975@paris.ics.uci.edu> wngai@paris.ics.uci.edu (Wayne
 Ngai) writes:
>Does anyone knows of any good terminal DESK ACCESSORY (like the one come with
>the atari system disk)???
>
>
>wayne
>
>wngai@paris.ics.uci.edu
 
I searched long and hard for a *good* terminal desk accessory.  MiniTerm 9.32
seems to do the job.  It has very good vt100 emulation, allows for x/y/zmodem
uploads and downloads, cursor positioning with the mouse, function key assign-
ment, dialing menu and the configuration is performed by use of an editable
resource file.  I have used this program in conjunction with the MULTRAN
background downloader and it makes for an excellent combo.  Just pop up to
MiniTerm, start the download, then exit and invoke MULTRAN to download and
continue with what you were doing while it downloads.  It has a couple dis-
advantages though:  you must have a zmodem program to perform zmodem transfers
and it does not run in a window; it just takes over the screen.  I think you
can get this one from GEnie or FTP, but I can't quite remember where I got
it from - my brain is toast.
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Date: 26 Feb 90 06:21:37 GMT
From: dftsrv!iris613!guest@ames.arc.nasa.gov  (Guest Account)
Subject: wanted -- Specter
Message-ID: <1002@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
 
In article <1001@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> stailey@iris613.UUCP writes:
>
>If anyone upgrading to Specter GCR would like to sell their old Specter,
>including ROMs, I am interested.  Please email reasonable offers to the
>above address.
>
>
Darn screwy mailer...
 
The above address (stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov) is the correct one.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
 
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