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1. EAT S D UCHUG S DRIVE Lite FEB 1994 Page 3 Newsletter of the San Diego Under the Hood User s Group Presidents Corner Continued lt the Kearny Mesa Rec Center E know that on the first Wednesday of each month our members automatically head for the Rec Center So we will have several reminders that on the first Wednesday in April we will meet at the IBM building 8845 University Center Lane This is in La Jolla at the Nobel Drive exit off Interstate 5 North just north of the new Mormon temple If you are coming from south of UCSD take I 5 north to Nobel drive exit and stop at the first traffic Aight The IBM building will be immediately in front of you If coming from the north exit I 5 at La Jolla Village Drive East Go to Lebon Drive turn right to Nobel Then turn right to the light just before the freeway and turn right into the IBM parking lot Parking is free The meeting is on the second floor in room 209 The room holds 90 people so bring me friends SECRETARY S REPORT GENERAL MEETING 5 JAN 1994 Greg Skalka Secretary The meeting was called to order at 7 37 PM by President Sandy Shapiro Fifteen members were in attendance Reports Past President No comments Vice President Wil informed the Computer Society of our name change He found out that the editor may put the newsletter on their BBS and is looking into the use of their VGA display panel Secreta2. My label Curious I have a couple of questions OK 7 of What could At burt to answer a couple of questions I almost always answer questions I am the kind of guy who when you ask what time it is feels compelled to try to make sure you understand how a watch is made the units by which time is measured and if even slightly encouraged the origin of the very concept of time itself T don t have a manual and what size disks should I buy What kind of computer is it For a moment I was afraid he was gonna say It s a WhiteBeard Don t you know IC S an Eagle The disks you need are five and a quarter inch double density not high density double density And gre importantly you ll need an 2erating system I started to explain that I m willing to give him a copy of CP M for the Eagle but I could copy it only on an appropriate Eagle machine 5 agi when he interrupted me What size disks should I buy Five and a quarter inch Quit tryna help so much Just address the presented question Five and a quarter inch seemed like he was writing Yes I don t have a manual I ll give up but if you 1l call me back in say ten minutes I was in the bathroom remember better yet give me your number and I ll call you I ll steer you to the last outfit I know of that supports Eagle computers And ah can I ask how you came by this computer I found
3. 10 REH PROGO1 BAS 1000 REM LOGISTIC EQUATION Xn 1 RXn 1 Xn 1010 DEFDBL A 2 Use double precision 1030 SH 12 Assume VGA graphics 1190 GOSUB 1300 Initialize 1200 GOSUB 1500 Set parameters 1210 GOSUB 1700 Iterate equations 1220 GOSUB 2100 Display results 1230 GOSUB 2400 Test results 1240 ON T GOTO 1190 1200 1210 1250 CLS 1260 END 1300 REM Initialize 1320 SCREEN 1350 WINDOW 1360 CLS 1420 RETURN 1500 REM Set parameters 1510 X 05 1560 R 4 1570 T 3 1590 LINE 1 1 1 1 1 1 B 30 RETURN Set graphics mode TDi det Initial condition Growth rate 1700 REM Iterate equations 1720 XNEW R X 1 X 2030 RETURN 2100 REH Display results 2300 PSET X XNEW 2320 RETURN 2400 REM Test results 2490 IF LEN INKEY THEN T 0 Respond to user key stroke 2510 X XNEW 2550 RETURN Plot point on screen Update value of X When run the screen map bears a close resemblance to a clipped parabola The screen appearance when running these programs reminds me of the stars appearing in the slowly darkening sky The appearance of pixels is random now here now there now somewhere else slowly filling in the gaps until the pattern is complete I wrote a C program to get a feel for the opening equation using a value of 4 for R ike xk MATHEX4 C 1 5 94 Calculations of equation 1C p7 of Strange Attractors R assigned a value of 4
4. A completed map remains visible for a few seconds then the screen blanks and a new construction begins The procedure for the later screens repeats indefinitely with new maps until pressing a key exits the program So this could be of use as an intriguing screen saver One side effect of the book has been to lead me into an exploration of my Epson LX 80 s control codes Because the pixels are randomly displayed on the screen they cannot be redirected to the printer But if there is a way to put the printer into a graphics mode such that Print Screen could reproduce the completed map that would be good To date I have not figured out how to do this however The user manual for the Epson printer is very thorough with a detailed description of the control codes required for all its operating modes The Epson is a de facto standard so the codes are true of most dot matrix printers and it would appear my Canon bubble jet Several years ago I wrote a program PRNTSET C that provides for keyboard setting of any of J Lts five print modes NLQ Emphasized Elite Compressed Elite and Compressed I have made several attempts at writing a code to put the printer into its graphics mode without success so far The closest I have come to results is a string of unintelligible dots But I keep trying One earlier objective was to printout from the high ASCII character set This so that boxes created by ALT n1 n2 n3 in
5. Thou shalt not giveth any false Page 12 S D UCHUG S DRIVE Lite FEB 1994 Newsletter of the San Diego Under the Computer Hood User s Group information when applying for membership to a BBS for verily it is written that whosoever shall do so will surely be found out and thy welcome on all boards will be thus denied forever and ever 24 Thou shalt log on properly and in accordance with the SysOp s rules 25 Thou shalt observe BBS time limits 26 Thou shalt not upload worm programs 27 Thou shalt not ask stupid questions that are already fully explained in the BBS instructions 28 Thou shalt not exchange copy protected software thru the BBS 29 Thou shalt not violate applicable state federal local Rules and Laws of the great BBS This Gem came from Miwok Village Alaska via the ChitCHATan conference on the RELAY net MAXTOR 345 MB Hard Drive information from the BBS Recently purchased a Maxtor 345 MB without any paperwork Does anyone know the CMOS particulars for a user defined HD for this drive Default AT BIOS Parameters Cylinders 790 Heads 15 Sectors Per Track 57 Note WPC and Landing Zone BIOS entries do not need a specific number for proper operation Maxtor AT interface hard drives will ignore and override any numbers programmed Looking at the circuit board side of the drive with the connectors toward you there are five jumpers in a horizontal ro
6. a disk full of new and useful shareware programs each month For an additional 10 per year you will receive 12 disks mr o e a e e e e e e e o a e a n 1993 S D UCHUG 1994 EXECUTIVE BOARD Pres Sandy Shapiro 454 2341 VP Wil Wakely 274 6043 Se GCregd oKkalka 484 7024 Tres Abbott Brownell 698 1506 Lib Bob Woods 486 4485 Ed Ray Ferbrache 275 2718 O a L Membership Art Greshan 748 9396 O a b Larry Baries lt lt lt 536 8676 O a E Larry Crunb 7 278 4083 O a L Al Brengle 588 0674 P Pres Bob Sanders 463 1359 enn ne tee The newsletter DRIVE LITE is published monthly by the SAN DIEGO UNDER THE HOOD USER S GROUP primarily for S D UCHUG members Copyrighted material may be reproduced with the written permission of the copyright holder Other contents of DRIVE LITE may be reproduced for non commercial purposes only if appropriate credit is given DRIVE LITE and the author AND a copy of the publication is supplied to S D UCHUG Submissions of interest to computer buffs are welcome All authors and sources must be identified Copyrighted material can be accepted for reprint only if permission of the copyright holder is included The DRIVE LITE Editor employs WordPerfect for Windows or DOS 6 0 to prepare the text Any Major Wordprocessor or straight ASCII text can be utilized
7. be include lt stdio h gt Begin Program nain float y xX int R 4 Solve equation y R x 1 x for x 05 x lt 1 0 x 05 amex tad printf R d x 4 9 y 4 g n R x y exit 0 And here is the result when run R Septon 0 05 puy s 0 19 Rvs boars Oakly Vi 0 36 R Anas Ddy 051 R 4 x 0 2 y 0 64 R 4 2 0 25 y 0 75 R 4 0 3 y 0 84 R 4 x 0 35 y 0 91 R 4 x 0 4 y 0 96 R A x 0 45 y 0 99 R Ap 0 5 y i Page 8 S D UCHUG S DRIVE Lite FEB 1994 Newsletter of the San Diego Under the Computer Hood User s Group R 4 X 0 55 y 0299 R 4 x 0 6 Y 0 96 R 4 x 0 65 y 0 91 R 4 x 0 7 y 0 84 R 4 X 0 75 y 0 75 R 4 x 0 8 y 0 64 R 4 xX 0 85 y 0 51 R 4 x 0 9 y 0 36 R 4 xX 0 95 y 0 189999 Observe the symmetry around y a This explains the quasi parabolic shape of the screen map The author does provide a BASIC program in the appendix for the entire text He has also converted it to Microsoft C ard Turbot version 2 0 He calls it C but it really isn t When r first attempted to compile the program the compiler pointed out the lack of the graphics enable initgraph A rather curious shortcoming I have written a header file to carry this out so the fix was relatively easy When run the program provides an endless display of maps
8. equation X RX 1 X The complexity of the equations increases chapter by chapter as do the screen representations on running the programs Three Dimensional Quadratic Map with Contour Bands In proceeding through the text the plot complexities evolve through a sequence of twenty six _ BASIC program fragments That is S De2sUCHUG S DREIVE Lite FEB 1994 Page 7 Newsletter of the San Diego Under the Hood User s Group each new segment is a BASIC sequence th the name PROG MRG PROGO1 MRG will run as PROGO1 BAS in fact with my QBASIC it will run without the BAS extension As the author explains each new level of mathematics the corresponding MRG file is integrated into all that has gone before The programs use line numbers which are not a requirement but make it much easier to integrate each new segment into the total At this time0 T am wuposte PROGO5 BAS which displays a variety of two dimensional quartic maps I am including photocopies of typical runs This program also includes sound effects At first Di considered these to be an annoyance but it turns out there is a real value in that the sound stops when the screen mapping is complete Without the sound the completion is not easily detected due to the random nature of the pixel appearances You can see from the initial program what the general format is like Confusing Variable definitions are vague at best
9. get a replacement hard drive for a KayPro 10 Remember the portable with a 10Mb hard disk spawned from the redoubtable CP M luggable produced by the now defunct company Pundits said you couldn t put a hard drive in a portable without elaborate shock mounting but KayPro did it and sold a few before they folded Right Neither do I A number of calls have been referred to me from the old SDHUG listing in ComputorEdge One I recall was from a guy who had just acquired at a swap meet I think a Page 10 S D UCHUG S DRIVE Lite FEB 1994 Newsletter of the San Diego Under the Computer Hood User s Group Columbia computer remember those and needed an operating system for ah ce Of course you old timers remember that unlike MS DOS machines every CP M computer had the BIOS portion of the operating system specifically tailored to its particular design Although with appropriate software one could read and write diskettes for other machines one could not for instance use a Heath machine to make a bootable diskette for a KayPro Another recent call was from the proud new owner of a TeleVideo computer He wanted CP M programs and was referred to me as keeper of the SDHUG CP M library He understood you put the program disk in the A drive and the data disk in the B drive When I tried to explain about the need for an operating system he became very confused and confessed he was new at this If I
10. in 1800 For cample December 31 1993 ended up as JULy 27 1814 No amount of formatting or reformatting helped So I called Borland technical support and my nightmare began Borland is a long distance call and I was immediately put on hold Then an operator came on line and spent several minutes explaining the various ways I could pay for support I could get free support only for setting up and configuring QPW My problem could be loosely construed as having to do with configuration I said and I finally was connected with Rebecca After I again explained my problem Rebecca said If you can get to a QPW window Sampson I told her my name was Sanford then I can t help you We only offer free help with installation she said She then went on to explain that I could call an 800 telephone number and pay with my credit card e I could call a 900 number and have the charge go on my telephone bill But there is a bug in the program I complained I would rather switch back to Excel than pay for support for a bug That is your privilege Rebecca shot back When I cooled down I _ found Borland s number for reporting bugs and sent them a report That was two weeks ago and there has been no response In the meantime I found that if I export my Excel files as Lotus wki format then QPW will import them correctly dates and all But I do not have the motivation to go back and start converting a
11. it ian a trash bin gf plugged it in turned it on and it works It A few minutes later I called the number he gave and fed him the info n Wilkinson Micro in Irvine CA the last supporter I know of for Eagle computers I had to spell out W stead wees is eae te Be 2S ee O coe ON twice slowly and I began to get an image of a second grader printing laboriously And I swear to Gates the very next day he called me and asked the Same questions again He said he lost what I d given him the day before and wanted to know what size disks to buy and where to get a manual Now I ve helped a lot of new computer users used to do it as a business and I ve generally found it very rewarding I must be getting curmudgeonly in my dotage because I decided rather quickly it would be a substantial uphill battle to try to help this guy And after struggling to get the machine running and him up to speed he d come to realize itis Capability is ridiculously outmoded compared to today s baseline machines He d learn the reason it was in the trash is it s so obsolete it not only has zero salvage value no knowledgeable person will even take it away for free I see now the pitfall in putting a sticker with my phone number on machines I supported In the past year I ve had a number of other strange calls An old acquaintance now living in Arizona called long distance to ask if I knew where someone could
12. of RAM and two floppy disk drives A new XT type of computer brought a succession of MS DOS versions each version performing more complicated tasks and needing more memory and more disk storage space The increasing complexity brought third party enhancements like QEMM The struggle to improve productivity generated a series of programs that let users do two or more tasks at the same time Windows GeoWorks and Desqview for example The isprree for this increased productivity however was decreased stability and reliability Then came IBM s OS 2 version 2 1 a robust operating system that provides both efficient multitasking and reliability But the price for running OS 2 is in hardware more RAM and larger hard drives are required The San Diego UCHUG will demonstrate OS 2 at the April meeting IBM is letting us use their meeting room with its excellent VGA projection system This will be the first time in my memory that we will NOT be meeting Continued around the Corner SAN DIEGO UNDER THE HOOD USER S GROUP A User s Group Membership Affiliated with San Diego Computer Society Membership in S D UCHUG is open to any person interested in computers Dues are 15 per year The Membership Chairman will happily accept your application at any meeting by mail or by phone Please make checks payable to MR ABBOTT BROWNELL Treasurer S D UCHUG Participation in the Disk Of The Month program will give you
13. put the program disk in A and the data disk in B where do I put this operating system As I began to explain to him about making bootable program disks I realized the futility of it att Since I have no idea where to get a bootable CP M disk for the TeleVideo As I have with other CP M seekers I was unable to help I referred him to Worswick Industries a local San Diego firm which has sometimes offered support for CP M machines Worswick probably hates me by now since he probably couldn t help these folks any more than I could There was a time when I believed an old CP M computer was a good place for a beginner especially one on a low budget to start since it would be adequate for straight forward tasks such as simple word processing etc And I realize I gave up that belief a long time ago Now I think such an idea is a downright disservice to a neophyte user The old machines are still adequate for many things and a knowledgeable user might effectively employ one for specialized tasks such as a printer server But the __ hardware has evolved and the computer community has progressed several stages generations if you will beyond those venerable old machines and we must give them up leave them behind relegate them to a few specialized tasks or indeed to the scrap heap Even the 8088 based peesees and XT s not to mention the superb for its day Z 100 are hopelessly outclassed The rec
14. 0 and 900 in quantities With the shipping of the new chip Intel is expected to introduce an upgrade socket that will enable users to add a second live P54C to their desktop systems in effect getting a multiprocessing system Most of those systems are expected to be asymmetrical multiprocessing systems End of another Month as the old saying goes
15. OD UCHUG Under the Computer Formerly Heath Zenith SDHUG Hood User s Group amp gt COMPUTER SPOKEN HERE Come Look With Us E Under the Computer Hood j ar a at __2_ HAPPY GROUND HOG DAY S amp S mie S Moins Meee is PROGRAM awe ot Wednesday FEB 2nd at 7 30PM EE p a Wil Wakely Kearny Mesa Recreation Center bere vibe 5170 Armstrong Street San Diego SAN DIEGO FIRST CLASS MAIL UNDER THE COMPUTER HOOD USER S GROUP Post Office Box 83341 San Diego CA 92138 3341 ARE YOU ABOUT TO EXPIRE Please check if your label below is HIGHLIGHTED ARTHUR W GRESHAM 14702704 15215 LUIS ST POWAY CA 92064 2628 Page 2 S D UCHUG S DRIVE Lite FEB 1994 Newsletter of the San Diego Under the Computer Hood User s Group President s Corner By Sandy Shapiro Look under your computer s hood and one thing you will find is an operating system What is an operating system The operating system is a list of instructions that lets you and your computer talk to each other Before we had floppy disk drives basic input and output I O was simpler Often a teletype machine served both functions Then came keyboards and monitors with cassette tapes storing information and instructions The advent of floppy disks made a disk operating system DOS necessary My first disk operating system was SS DOS from Smoke Signal Broadcasting Company I used it on a computer with 40 K
16. PC Write would not only appear on the screen as they do but printout as well I wondered why these always came out as italics until my digging through the manual showed that Epson internally translates high ASCII to italics Even so a program I have from long ago LETTRIX does print the entire set along with much much more So it can be done but I suspect it creates a graphics representation Which is what I would like to work out for myself Given more time and effort it might happen yet A matter of finding the correct approach I have made reservations that should bring me to San Diego on the afternoon of January 24 So if all goes as planned I shall be Cing y all at the February meeting lt C gt W O M WOM Write Only Memory You re supposed to ignore it by Ol WhiteBeard Hissef ITS OK TO GET GO OF CP M The other day I was in the bathroom when the phone rang Not to worry I have a phone in the john for just such eventualities The conversation and my thoughts went something like this Hello WhiteBeard Computer Consulting an unfamiliar voice S D UCHUG S DRIVE Lite FEB 1994 Page 9 Newsletter of the San Diego Under the Hood User s Group _ Uh yes Cl was wary of a lephone solicitor I ve got one of your computers Uh yes Confused 1I couldn t envision what he was talking about Tt s get your label on at OK
17. e Secretary The minutes of January general meeting accepted as corrected Treasurer 1198 82 reported in the account Audit results were presented to the board Art Gresham will cross check membership payments received to each of the members Editor 32 member and 9 exchange complementary copies of January issue sent February issue deadline is January 25th The January issue was uploaded to the Computer Society BBS Future issues will be sent to the Computer Society in this form only Membership Presently at 32 gt members with two overdue for renewal and several coming up for renewal in the next few months Librarian In addition to the DOM a two disk set of the 3 D action game DOOM will be offered for sale at the next general meeting Future general meeting programs Feb Mike Trempe on Word 6 0 March Ray Ferbrache on Kiplinger s Money Manager may need VGA projection pad April Sandy Shapiro on OS 2 V2 1 at IBM building 8845 University Center Lane across from the Mormon Temple pending VGA projection capability May Modem demonstration by Abbott Suggestions for other future presentations CD ROMs Little Big LAN LAN program virtual reality Pentium and Power PC processors Old business Newsletter names In keeping with the new organization name the board will change the newsletter name to Drive Lite New business None The February board meeting will be hosted by Wil Wakely F
18. eb 16th The meeting adjourned at 8 35 PM THEY GET YOU BY THE SERVICE By Sandy Shapiro San Diego Under the Computer Hood Users Group I can t resist a baraain At last fall s Computer Fair Borland was practically giving away QUATTRO Pro Version 5 their latest spread sheet program I use an old version of Excel version 2 and this was my opportunity to upgrade to a modern reasonable price spreadsheet program at a S D UCHUG S DRIVE Lite FEB 1994 Page 5 Newsletter of the San Diego Under the Hood User s Group Borland now charges for technical ipport But I can read the manual ad unless there is a bug in the program I rarely need to call technical support Now Borland wouldn t release a buggy program and expect me to pay for getting help would they Or would they I bought the program and stuck it in a drawer until I could find time to play with it When that day finally came I installed the program and ran the tutorial LC worked well and I was impressed When I felt comfortable with the program I decided to move all my Excel files over I don t need to keep two spreadsheet programs on my hard drive Then I found the bug The manual states that QUATTRO Pro for Windows QPW will import Excel files xls automatically No special instructions are given To my surprise I found that only dates through 1989 would import correctly Dates after that imported somewhere
19. han 3 computers Using the 25 Network computers can share a printer Any networked machine can use all the resources of another machine on the network Drives can be shared on the network or excluded from it One machine is the server in a 3 machine network the other two connect to 36 The RS 232 connection spec is up to 50 feet Page 4 S D UCHUG S DRIVE Lite FEB 1994 Newsletter of the San Diego Under the Computer Hood User s Group but it would probably work up to around 100 feet probably several hundred feet with repeaters Files may be transferred and programs may even be run off of remote networked drives The January board meeting will be hosted by Sandy Shapiro Jan 19th The meeting was adjourned at 8 56 PM SECRETARY S REPORT BOARD MEETING 19 JAN 1994 Greg Skalka Secretary The meeting was called to order at the home of Sandy Shapiro at 7 43 PM by President Sandy Shapiro Officers in attendance were Sandy Shapiro Greg Skalka Al Brengle Bob Woods Larry Crumb Bob Sanders Ray Ferbrache Art Gresham Wil Wakely and Abbott Brownell Reports Past President No comments Vice President A 6 00 per member per year saving would result by members obtaining their D amp D by modem rather than through mailed printed copies This could be offered as a reduced cost membership option Wil had no answer yet on the use of a VGA projection pad belonging to the Computer Society the wer
20. ipient of an obsolete computer is likely to spend Significantly more on getting it running than he paid for the computer in the first place and almost as much as a generation newer machine would cost And when he finds out there aren t any really good games for it and it won t run anything like the killer software he hears everyone talking about he 11 feel ripped off The last time I fired up The Mule my trusty heavily tricked out Heathkit H 89 was about a year ago And at that time I couldn t access my multiplexed floppy drives from the soft sector controller So I have lost my capability to convert between Heath hard sector and soft sector disks At the present rate of things I may never get to fixing it At the last meeting of the UCHUG Executive Board I requested that we remove any reference to CP M from our ComputorEdge and Personal Systems listings and give up any pretense of offering to support CP M because the only requests we have received in the last couple of years we haven t been able to help anyway The Board agreed and also decided to consign the highly touted SDHUG CP M Library to Ol WhiteBeard s custody until he gets tired of it I will continue to store the library probably forever and will continue to help informally users who appreciate the value and the limitations of obsolete machines S D UCHUG S DRIVE Lite FEB 1994 Page 11 Newsletter of the San Diego U
21. ll my Excel files Maybe I will take a look at the new Excel upgrade offer I am reminded of the story of the business man looking for a hotel in Hawaii His friend recommended a new resort where the rooms were only 5 00 a night and included a great golf course The man checked into the hotel and said You mean these wonderful rooms are only 5 00 a night and golf is incliuded That s right said the clerk Have a nice stay The man grabbed his golf clubs and headed for the golf course This is beautiful he said to the golf pro And you mean there is no charge No said the pro Have a nice game I need a package of golf balls the man said The pro shop is right over there the pro said They will have what you need The man ran into the pro shop and said Quick give me a package of three golf balls Certainly sir the clerk said And that will be 3000 00 1000 00 per ball S1000 00 a ball the man exclaimed Why that is outrageous Yes sir the clerk said Here they get you by the balls Borland you by the service now gets Page 6 S D UCHUG S DRIVE Lite FEB 1994 Newsletter of the San Diego Under the Computer Hood User s Group CLEM S C LINE by Clem Pepper Copyright C January 11 1994 by Clement S Pepper I recently bought another book Anyone who knows me at all will not be surprised when it comes to books I am an easy touch The title of thi
22. nder the Hood User s Group But it s time to quit offering hope lt A potential users where they don t niuOW What they have what they need or what they want and will require major education just to come up to speed on an old computer I Will if you will I WISH PD SAID THAT PAPER OR PLASTIC The Lady Marcia always gets upset with me when I answer that importune checkout question with a simple Vas it Now with credit cards almost universally accepted I really want to counter the question with a question TO PACK OR TO PAY ASB crm nae ctr TERRES FROM THE EDITOR S DESK _JW BIG IS 1 MILLION A man from Indiana wrote a program to print all the numbers from 1 to 1 000 000 The program took 7 hours per day for 2 weeks to print 2 400 pages weighing almost 50 lbs eter en a eee o oM u Mo u I aoi ou oull lM ee ee es ee Barfergnigen Car Sickness in a Volkswagen a ee CC O I IMiMIMao I ee eee ee l TAKE MY ADVICE I DON T USE IT ANYWAY BBS CREED 1 Thou shall love thy BBS with all thy heart and all thy bytes 2 Thou shalt remember thy name and password 3 Thou shalt not POST IN ALL CAPS 4 Thou shalt use thy real name 5 Thou shalt only call a BBS two times a day Honor thy Sysop Unless his last name is Padilla Ae tO il Lies 13 14 15 16 iv 18 19 20 PA nA Lat aoe Thou shalt not co
23. ry The December minutes were accepted as read Treasurer 1178 82 in the account Editor Thirty two member and 9 rchange complementary copies of the January D amp D Lite were sent out A copy was sent to the editor of Personal Systems The deadline for submittals to the February edition was set at January 25th It was suggested that we change the name of the newsletter since the group s name has changed Suggestions were Tool Box and Timing Light Membership The number members dropping out of the group each year has been decreasing over the last 7 years 16 lost in 1987 13 in 1988 14 in 1989 10 in 1990 5 in 1991 6 in 1992 and 3 dropped out in 1993 Librarian The January Disk of the Month contains DOS utilities HD Info contains hard drive specifications and Windows utilities including WIZMAN WIZMAN puts a configurable and selectable toolbar into file manager Other utilities provide 3 D buttons and permit groups of groups The library will now be going to 1 44M 3 5 disks Future presentations February Mike Trempe on Word for 3 Windows 6 0 March Open April Sandy on OS 2 at IBM Old business None New Business None The evening s presentation was by Al Brengle standing in for Gary on the 25 Network The 25 Network is a software package that allows 2 or 3 computers to be networked together using nul modem cables The same company IMODES also makes Little Big LAN for connecting more t
24. s book is Strange Attractors Creating Patterns in Chaos by Julien C Sprott Basically the book provides a technique for generating fractals using a rather elaborate mathematical approach As to a practical value for this I think that depends on the individuals interests and education For me it is just a bit of simple programming enjoyment The author s opening paragraph says it best Art and science sometimes appear in juxtaposition one aesthetic the other analytical This book bridges the two cultures I have written it for the artist who is willing to devote a modicum of effort to understanding the mathematical world of the scientist and for the scientist who often overlooks the beauty that lurks just beneath the simplest equations What the book does is present a unique approach for generating a class of fractals called strange attractors The first chapter includes a discussion on deterministic laws oof nature versus probabalistic quantum mechanics for instance It is now understood that deterministic is not the same as predictable Unpredictable behavior of deterministic systems has been called chaos Chaotic processes are not random they do follow rules But even Simple rules can produce extreme complexity Which is what this book is all about The author discussion begins with a Simple equation Xn 1 RXn modified to Xn 1 RXn 1 Xn 8 A R Bifurcation diagram for the logistic
25. vet thy neighbor s password nor his or her real name computer software nor any other thing belonging to him or her Thou shalt not post messages that are stupid worthless or have no meaning Thou shalt use the English language properly Thou shalt spell thy words correctly Thou shalt not use a handle unless thine computer is made by Commodore or allowed by thine SysOp Thou shalt delete thine olden messages Thou shalt help other users Thou shalt not post anonymously when offering criticism Thou shalt keep thy foul language to thyself Thou shalt not occupy thy BBS with thine arguments for Verily I say unto thee that thou shalt maketh a fool of thyself Woe be unto the user who attempt to Crash thy BES for he shart be cast out from the sanctuary of thy hobby and must repent by doing 40 days and 40 nights of penance of voice only communications Thou shalt first dial BBS numbers during the day by way of voice line to assure correct numbers Thou shalt not beg for E Mail Thou shalt not post messages while drunk Thou shalt confine thy messages to those of friendship requests for assistance aid to the needy advice and advancement Of thy hobby and thou art obligated to repel any who wouldst transgress upon those commandments If thou doth promise to reply to a message and thou doth not then surely thou shalt spill coffee into thy keyboard and burn out thy central processing Chirp
26. w numbered J16 J20 left to right J20 should have a jumper attached if this is the only drive or is to be the Master in a dual drive system The jumper should be removed when the drive is used as a slave store it gt on J19 according to the data sheet_ I have from Maxtor Thanks for the info Turns out I found an 800 number for Maxtor on the drive and called them They have a neat touch tone deal where you punch in the model of your drive and a recording very carefully provides all the numbers If you touch another number a recording walks you through a hard drive install But I sincerely appreciate your feedback It s nice to know folks like you are around The number is 1 800 2 MAXTOR All you gotta do is remember the 2 NEWS At the ISSCC94 Integrated Circuit San Francisco show in February Intel will release the technical details of its next Pentium Microprocessor the P54C The P54C will be the first 3 3 Volt Pentium and will use Intel s 0 6 micron production process The chip will also be the first clock doubling Pentium running externally at 50 MHz and internally at 100 MHz They will reveal most of the product specifications but the chip itself and systems built around the processor will be out about April Pricing for the P54C is not out but expect Intel to price it at a premium to the 60 and 66 MHz Pentiums already shipping Those chips are currently priced between 80
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