46133,05,03/10/93,ALEX ZELL,MICHAEL CAIN READING MESSAGES,NONO In a note you ask how to read new messages and if you should read "help" better. Yes. Just do "help;read" or even "h;read" (no parens, of course) and it will all be explained. [If you forget to put the <;> between the words "help" and "read" CBBS will do it for you.] The method I use is simply "qr;*" and the new messages show up. 46232,02,05/03/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,MICHAEL SHARTIAG R/IDE SPEED/TIMING/LAPTOPS, As to whose BIOS they licensed, could you boot debug and go searching, it might have a Phoenix or AMI copyright or something. 46233,06,05/06/93,STEVE AIDIKONIS,ALL WANTED: CALENDAR DLL, I need to find a windows dll that will allow a display of a monthly calender, with the ability to click on a particular date, with the date getting passed back to my app. I've been scanning cserve & other BBSs, along with commercial packages to no avail. I wouldn't mind if this were one component of a general function package. Any ideas, please leave me a message here. 46333,22,06/16/93,BENJAMIN COHEN,ANDY SHAPIRO R/LAPTOPS, The only negative comment I have is that when I was asked to help a friend in the Phillipines get a replacement battery and floppy drive for his old Toshiba laptop (dual floppy -- this was a few years ago, at least -- Toshiba wanted an arm and a leg for each and both were back-ordered! There was a discount for exchange of the old disk drive, but only if you gave them the old one at the time you ordered the new one. Mind you, this is for a disk drive they admitted hadn't been in stock in the US in over two months! I can't say what the current status of parts availability is. I say this having just purchased a T1000 w/768K RAM card, one floppy, DOS 2.11, 512K base RAM. The RAM card becomes "hard RAM" (a non-volatile RAM disk), holds ProComm, NewSweep, DTA, SmartKey and VDE, leaving about 300K or so free. With NO floppy access at all it runs over FIVE hours on a charge (continuous). Using the floppy at all reduces that somewhat, but with VDE in RAM disk there's no need to use it. The system does not do an automatic shut-off (unlike my Epson Genevas; which also get >10 hours per charge), but it's quite serviceable and it DOES have a floppy drive instead of a tape microcassette drive! Say, there's a note in the latest Mor-Atlanta newsletter from a guy in the SF Bay area who has a Kaypro with 2 Meg RAM disk, 4 floppies, and also a Geneva that he'strying to find a home for! 46432,03,08/23/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,RICH BEERMAN GALACTICOMM, Hey, thanks for stopping by from Glacticomm HQ in Ft. Lauderdale. I was just in your fine city last Mon-Thu (boy, you sure turned the heat up!). Maybe see you at BBSCON... 46433,07,08/26/93,ROY LIPSCOMB,ANDY SHAPIRO R/PROBLEM WITH 20 MHZ 286, Andy, as you surmised, the problem was the keyboard. The AMI bios I have works fine if I boot with a friend's 101-key keyboard (set to AT mode). (The odd thing is that, with the 84-key keyboard, the AMI bios recognized the ESC key but not the DEL key. I thought those were two of the keys that had the same scan codes on the 101-key as on the 84-key.) Now all I have to do is get a 101-key keyboard. 46532,27,12/15/93,NORB DEMBINSKI,ALL FOR SALE,FROG Make a resonable offer for the following PS/2 & other computer items for sale: 1. IBM #1887972 8514/A Color Display Adapter, 512KB memory. 2. IBM #6451113 Internal CD-ROM drive w/IBM #6450847 Install Kit/A. 3. IBM #6451109 SCSI Adapter/A. 4. IBM #30F5279 Internal Tape Drive 80/120 Meg capacity with Backup Kit software for DOS and & 1 tape cartridge. 5. IBM #72X8527 8580 Hard drive support structure. 6. IBM #6450379 System Board 2MB memory expansion kit. 7. Kensington KTM-2000/M80 2MB mem board, IBM #6450379 equal. 9. IBM PS/2 5.25 Inch 1.2MB Internal Diskette Drive and Adapter/A. 10. ADOBE Postscript Cartridge for the HP LaserJet II. 11. Pacific Data Products Postscript Cartridge PE with Pacific Data Products Postscript Accelerator Board XL for HP LaserJet III and LaserTools Printer Control Panel software. 12. INTERCON Mustang II PostScript Accelerator Bd for HP LJ II/III. 13. Hewlett-Packard #92286PC Pro Collection Font Cartridge. 14. Hewlett-Packard #33404A #ABA Type Director Font Management software w/8 typefaces. 15. INTEL 80386DX-20 CPU processor chip. 16. INTEL 80387DX-20 Math co-processor chip. All of the above peripherals and adapter cards come with the manufacturer's diagnostic, install, setup, driver software and printed documentation where and when supplied by the manufacturer. Call 312.731.9894 or leave message on BBS. 46533,03,12/17/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,ALL STILLWATERS STILL UP?, Jeff Gray would like to know if Stillwaters BBS is still up, or where he can get a recent Chicago-area BBS list. Please leave a msg directly to him, please. Thanks!