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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Sun, 11 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  185
 
Today's Topics:
                    Bigscrn/Overscan... Doing it.
                             C++ (2 msgs)
                         Hard drive question
                          IBM RT Hard Drives
                       Software Piracy In Atari
                             STE and SIMs
                          Supra 20 Meg Drive
                      Wordperfect newer release
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Date: 11 Feb 90 10:40:26 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc
 .edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs325ec@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Bigscrn/Overscan... Doing it.
Message-ID: <16000012@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
 
        I am about to do the big screen (cheap-o german) modification
        for my 1040.  I have 2 questions...
 
        1) Has anyone done it and have comments?
        2) Is overscn2.arc at terminator the latest in the overscan
                software?  I checked panarthea and they only have
                a version way back in volume5 binaries and volume 2
                binaries...
 
        Thanks for any info.  It is much appreciated.
 
        -Greg
 
        #include <whitespace.for.dramatic.effect>
 
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Date: 9 Feb 90 17:04:00 GMT
From: uvm-gen!pegram@uunet.uu.net  (pegram r)
Subject: C++
Message-ID: <1388@uvm-gen.UUCP>
 
From article <9002011956.AA16674@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>, by boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu
 (Mickey Boyd):
Deletions ....
> I believe the GNU C++ compiler has been successfully ported over to the
> ST domain, and I also understand that the FSF is developing interest in
> ST's (net rumor).
more deletions...
 
I hear it, but I want the facts.  Where do you get it and what does it
need to run (especially how much memory - 1meg,2,2.5,or the whole 4megs).
thanks
        Bob Pegram (pegram@griffin.uvm-gen.uvm.edu)
 
P.S. I know I posted needlessly on the Magnavox monitor too, but keep
it down to a dull roar guys (fist fights outside the net). Email is
the best way to do your heated name calling.  RBPIII
 
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Date: 11 Feb 90 06:05:11 GMT
From: deimos!uafhp!uafhcx!dhe@rutgers.edu  (David Ewing)
Subject: C++
Message-ID: <3681@uafhp.uark.edu>
 
In article <1388@uvm-gen.UUCP>, pegram@uvm-gen.UUCP (pegram r) writes:
>
> I hear it, but I want the facts.  Where do you get it and what does it
> need to run (especially how much memory - 1meg,2,2.5,or the whole 4megs).
> thanks
 
    It requires at least 2 megs -- this fact as already been posted to the net
nearly every day, but the real question is WHY does it require SO MUCH memory?!
I'd really like an answer to that question.
 
         -Dave
 
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 dhe@uafhcx.uark.edu                      David Ewing, University of Arkansas
 dhe@uafb15.uark.edu   "DON'T PANIC!!!"       Computer Science Engineering
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Date: 11 Feb 90 03:25:06 GMT
From: portal!portal!cup.portal.com!buggs@apple.com  (William Edward JuneJr)
Subject: Hard drive question
Message-ID: <26812@cup.portal.com>
 
Just got the big tax refund, yey!
Now I'm lookin' for the BIGGEST *AND* FASTEST __half height__ HD mech.
I'd like it to be either RLL or SCSI!
Also who'd have the best price *8~)
 
Ed <not askin' TOO much, am I?> June
 
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Date: 10 Feb 90 19:25:32 GMT
From: pacbell!rbdc!mccann@ames.arc.nasa.gov  (Mike McCann)
Subject: IBM RT Hard Drives
Message-ID: <1008@rbdc.UUCP>
 
35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
 
>At work, I am pulling out 100 megabyte hard drives from IBM rt's to replace
>them with 310 megabyte units.  This means that we have quite a few 100 meg.
>units sitting around that may be declared surplus.  The drive in question is
>a standard IBM-supplied RT drive - model 0699.  I am told that it may be
>an ESDI device.  My local Atari dealer tells me that I should be able to
>hook up a controller/interface from Berkerley Microsystems.  He tells me
>that the FaST unit from ICD is out of the question.  Does anyone else have
>experience with this, or have any bright ideas.  I surely would love
>to have a free, 20 microsecond 100 meg. hard drive to play with!
 
If you would care to, you could send a drive to me and I'd check out the
 
possibility of it working. My address:
 
 
 
Mike McCann
 
1101-4 Barbara Ann Circle
 
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
 
 
 
I think you'll have to homebrew it; most any host should work but likely
 
an SCSI-E
 
 
>--
>Kevin-john Conway
>...a librarian from hell...
 
>School of Library and Information Science
>University of Western Ontario
>London Canada
>"...deviants from the norm..."
 
>"My ideas may be silly, but I'm not.  I'm positively skewed!"
 
>35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca
>conway@uwovax.bitnet
>kjc@uwovax.bitnet
 
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Date: 10 Feb 90 23:59:00 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!david.sch
 reiber@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (DAVID SCHREIBER)
Subject: Software Piracy In Atari
Message-ID: <90021021121199@masnet.uucp>
 
  Read "The Cuckoo's Egg" not only for a really good story about
computer hacking (invading military computers for the Soviets) but also
to see how little the FBI and CIA care about such things. Telling the
FBI that there is piracy in a computer club will go absolutely nowhere.
Tell the manufacturers of the products involved.
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 * Via ProDoor 3.1R
 
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Date: 10 Feb 90 12:45:00 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!david.meg
 ginson@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (DAVID MEGGINSON)
Subject: STE and SIMs
Message-ID: <90021021121155@masnet.uucp>
 
I've heard that you can use SIMs to upgrade the STE. Has anyone tried
using IBM SIMs (and just ignoring the extra bit), or do they have to be
Mac SIMs. How fast should they be? I'm sure that it would be useful to
everyone if you posted a response to this newsgroup, but I would also
appreciate any private responses (much faster for me). Please reply to:
 
meggin@vm.epas.utoronto.ca (BITNET)
 
Thanks. I'm considering buying an STE next week, and I need to know.
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Date: 10 Feb 90 19:56:00 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!calvin.br
 uner@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (CALVIN BRUNER)
Subject: Supra 20 Meg Drive
Message-ID: <90021021121171@masnet.uucp>
 
I heard somewhere (mistakenly or otherwise) that it was possible to
format a Supra 20 Meg Hard Drive to 30 Meg?  I could sure use the extra
space if it works, and would appreciate any comments from others who
have tried it.
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 * Via ProDoor 3.2aR
 
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Date: 10 Feb 90 23:56:00 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!david.sch
 reiber@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (DAVID SCHREIBER)
Subject: Wordperfect newer release
Message-ID: <90021021121188@masnet.uucp>
 
  The aug. 89 version is the latest Word Perfect for the ST that I've
heard of ..... Oh, it just occurred to me that you're thinking of what
WP called their "update." It allows the use of alternate file selectors
such as UIS, gives a word count during spell checking, and has a Page
Preview option. Call WP for it.
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