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INFO-ATARI16 Digest Thu, 28 Dec 89 Volume 89 : Issue 868
Today's Topics:
520 ST upgrade to 2.5 Meg
Blitz copy cable and utility
internal FAX packages for ST?
Monochrome monitor modification
monogram
ProGem
USENET -> GEnie uplink now working
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Date: 28 Dec 89 21:04:35 GMT
From: pacbell!pbhya!gdr@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Guy D. Ridley)
Subject: 520 ST upgrade to 2.5 Meg
Message-ID: <31728@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
I am trying to get my 520 upgraded. I am not too familiar with the innards
of my machine, and after talking with some dealers I am even more confused.
1) Can the ease of upgrading the memory be dependent on which version of
TOS I am running, or are these entirely separate issues?
2) One dealer says it will take three weeks, another says it takes an
hour (and his cost is better too.) However, after 6 weeks the chips
are not in yet. Other dealers confirm that the chips are hard to
get. There is no dealer in the S.F. Bay Area that can do the work
*now*, mainly because the chips are not available. Is this normal?
3) One dealer said that in January there will be a board that will
accept plug-in memory chips. Is this really true? Will it really
be in January (1990)?
4) Where can I get the chips, assuming I will have to get them myself,
and dealers don't have them?
5) What sorts of things can go wrong during this procedure, and how can
I test it afterwards? (I assume by reading & writing to the highest
memory location???) I am conversant in assembler if the answer to
this requires such.
Guy Ridley
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Date: 28 Dec 89 17:43:27 GMT
From: usc!samsung!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!scott@ucsd.edu (Scott Yelich)
Subject: Blitz copy cable and utility
Message-ID: <SCOTT.89Dec28124327@diatomite.cs.odu.edu>
> Or... you can E-Mail me, and I can tell you how to order this month's
> ARC utility disk from MACE, the Michigan Atari Computer Enthusiasts,
> which has both the original BLITZ documents including text and DEGAS pic
> of the cable, and the BLITZ-II (Turbo-BLITZ) software...
> Or... check your local user group...
one last time... just to clear up some points.
I have two versions up for anonymous FTP from xanth.cs.odu.edu.
One version is a zip, the other is a compressed and tarred directory
of the files AFTER they have been unzipped. I used a UNIX unzip since
I didnt have unzip for the ST. Although I THOUGHT .zip files were
self extracting archives. Nevertheless, there are two versions for FTP.
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Scott D. Yelich scott@cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1]
After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?''
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 89 20:07 N
From: <GASPARD%HROEUR51.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: internal FAX packages for ST?
>I have a friend who is interested in finding out information about
>boards, software and/or other solutions that will allow FAXes to
>be sent or received directly from an Atari ST. The particular
>computer she has is an Atari Mega ST 4 ...
The Dutch company "DIVO Computer supplies" sels a complete FAX-pakkage for the A
tari ST. The full GEM-Based software will let you send ASCII and First-Word(+)
documents including all styles like bold, italic, underlined.
You can load several fonts, so every-one should be able to make is own font if
nececary.
You can load all kind of pictures like Degas, Doodle and IMG's.
As a special feature, you can send Pages made by the DTP-Program Calamus.
Of cource you can use the Fax as a scanner and printer.
The address of DIVO is:
DIVO
M. Gijzenburg 14
2907 HG Capelle a/d IJssel
The Netherlands
+31 10
Tel: +31 10 4587640
Fax: +31 10 4420037
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- Bert Rozenberg, Sysop STer BBS, +31 1880 40035 -
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Date: 29 Dec 89 02:48:46 GMT
From: sundc!newstop!grapevine!panarthea.ebay.sun.com!koreth@seismo.css.gov
(Steven Grimm)
Subject: Monochrome monitor modification
Message-ID: <35035@grapevine.uucp>
I'm now the proud owner of an SM124 monitor (I can use Unix Windows!) and
would like to tweak the monitor so the display fills up more of the screen.
The one-inch margins are a bit ridiculous.
I remember seeing instructions for that on the net before. Would someone
please mail me the instructions?
Hmm, uw+ka9q = NCSA Telnet clone for the ST? Yes, you too can run an anonymous
ftp site on your Atari...
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" !" - Marcel Marceau
Steven Grimm Moderator, comp.?sources,binaries?.atari.st
koreth@ebay.sun.com ...!sun!ebay!koreth
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Date: 28 Dec 89 16:53:23 GMT
From: att!dptg!lzaz!hcj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (HC Johnson)
Subject: monogram
Message-ID: <900@lzaz.ATT.COM>
In article <8912280806.AA17281@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, BALTUCH@BRANDEIS.BITNET
(Jacob Baltuch) writes:
> I'm posting this question for somebody who doesn't have access to the net.
>
> Has anybody heard about MONOGRAM. They had a program called "Dollars&Cents"
> or something like that. My friend is happy with the program but doesn't seem
> to be able to get his printer to work with it. When he tries to use the
> printer the ST hangs or something. Anybody out there has ever used this
I use D&S. it comes with GDOS 1.0, but is not compatible with it.
Printing suddenly came to life when I get GDOS 1.1 with another program.
So, either find GDOS 1.1, or try G+ (whatever), the gdos replacement.
Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
att!lzaz!hcj
hcj@lzaz.att.com
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Date: 28 Dec 89 17:49:31 GMT
From:
zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caesar.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!
blake!ramsiri@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Subject: ProGem
Message-ID: <5173@blake.acs.washington.edu>
In article <8912280803.AA16904@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> K331672@AEARN.BITNET
(Gerfried Klein) writes:
>Hello folks out in the world |
>I would be very happy if someone could send me info about the
>ProGem articles from Antic. How many of them have been brought out ?
>Where can I get them from ?
>
I got the arc files progem.arc and prosrc.arc from
terminator.cc.umich.edu [35.1.33.8]
-kevin
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu
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Date: 28 Dec 89 19:33:35 GMT
From:
zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!srcsip!nic.MR.NET!ns!logajan@tut.cis.ohio-sta
te.edu (John Logajan)
Subject: USENET -> GEnie uplink now working
Message-ID: <1989Dec28.193335.13308@ns.network.com>
Robert Coleman writes:
> is there no legal way I can stop GENIE from
> copyrighting MY material if I post it on USENET?
Steve Yelvington writes:
>There is nothing we can do to prevent the profit-making Times from quoting
>us. There is nothing we can do to prevent the Times from claiming a
>copyright on the reporter's story.
>However, there also is nothing the Times can do that could restrict us
>from reusing our brilliant words
Although I agree with this, my original posting on the subject was confined
to the question of whether specific site distribution restrictions were
enforceable. Here I would use an alternate analogy, that of a broadcast
TV station that wishes to prohibit people on odd sides of the street from
viewing their transmissions. Clearly such site restrictions are laughable
and could never be enforced, practially or legally. Broadcasting over the
airwaves or over USENET is, in principle, the same thing. If you want to
narrow cast to preserve your right of distribution selection, you have to
find means other than standard TV channels or USENET newsgroups.
> Even a lawsuit without validity can be expensive.
Agreed. Fortunately there are remedies to that also.
--
- John M. Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 -
- logajan@ns.network.com, john@logajan.mn.org, Phn 612-424-4888, Fax 424-2853 -
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