46178,08,03/29/93,ROY LIPSCOMB,ALEX ZELL R/CBBS NOT RETIRING, Ward mentioned something in an earlier message about CBBS having become "boring," and led me to believe that he was not longer going to support it (i.e. take it down). Glad to see there probably was a misunderstanding on my part. I guess I didnt' need to remind Ward that if he didn't want to spend time maintaining CBBS, there would be plenty of others who would be glad to serve as s**ops. (Thanks for reminding me that this is a family board!) 46179,03,03/29/93,ROY LIPSCOMB,WARD CBBS IN C, Do you have the "C"BBS project mapped out yet? And/or farmed out? I still have the phone number of the fellow who offered you some low-level routines. 46278,23,05/28/93,ANDY SHAPIRO,ALL AN INNOVATION...?, Here's my innovation of the week -- the monocable! Earlier today I bought a little clip-on trackball (PC Accessories, the generic red, white & blue box brand) and put it on the right side of my desktop keyboard. Since it has a very short cord (1' or so), I bought a monitor extension cable (9 pin) and wound it into the coiled keyboard cable. Behold! One wire, two devices! Actually, the little trackball is kind of cute. It's the size of a MicroSoft or Logitech portable trackball, but the bracket clips it on flat, so that the critter is at the same angle as the keyboard. It has three buttons arranged around the ball, and one LED. When you press either the right or left buttons and the bottom button at the same time, the right or left button locks and the LED lights. Pressing the bottom button again releases your selection. It works well in the graphics programs I use, though I must admit that the action isn't as nice as my Trackman (which now goes to my 4-year-old, who finds rodents as frustrating as I do). Oh -- at CompUSA, the PC Accessories Mini Trackball was less than half the price of its Logitech and Microsoft brethren. Has anyone else here strung multiple cables together to eliminate desktop messiness? I'm curious. 46279,04,05/28/93,ANDY SHAPIRO,ALL NOVELL DOS 7?, I've heard that this is beta testing NOW, and that it is a command- driven OS that supports true multi-tasking. Anyone seen it? Heard about it? If you have a (non-OEM'd) copy of DR-DOS 6, have you heard any noises? etc... 46378,06,07/26/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,ALL COMPUTER CENTRAL, Went to College of DuPage (COD) last Sunday for Computer Central. Pretty nice dealer's show, run I think about every two months. A friend bought a new VGA monitor, I got "7th Guest" a highly recommended 2-CD game, but I can't get it to work (actually now, I'm installing a new hard disk, and NOTHING works. The drive won't load ASPI drivers if the CDROM is hooked up! 46379,12,07/27/93,ANDY SHAPIRO,WARD CHRISTENSEN R/GENEVA, Yeah, the tape is cute, no? As for the function keys -- they're programmable (in CONFIG). They default to doing fairly inane CP/M things like typing out PIP, ERA, etc, but you can make them much more useful. As I recall, you can embed CRs in the function key lines, so that a single key can perform complex functions (for example, you can have it call up the COMM program and set it to 19.2 kbps by doing something like this: B:COMM^MBD H^M. It just stuffs the keyboard buffer and off it goes. Anyway, I guess the Geneva DID come with a tiny slip of paper that used to fit in the window, but it was "user oriented" -- blank in other words. You could make one up to show how to use the keys for the tape, I guess, but there IS a cryptic representation of the keys at the bottom of the SYSTEM screen as well... 46478,07,09/30/93,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,ALL CYRIX 486/40 ??, Has anyone had experience with the Cyrix 486/40 ?? Apparantely, it is a 486/sx 40 MHZ chip to start with and the math co-processor plugs into the top of the chip ( you remove the heat sinc, plug it in and then put the sinc back on top)?? this sounds weird, and at least froma marketing standpoint a little deceiving. I was told it was 100% the same as an Intel, vs. the ability to look the same. With the math co chip it it very little difference in price. 46479,08,10/02/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,MICHAEL SHARTIAG R/CYRIX 486/40 ??, Oh, this whole non-Intel chip thing is CONFUSING! IBM comes along with "Blue Lightning" which I thought was a 33-100 chip, possibly without a math-co, and possibly a 16MB-addressing machine. Cyrix had 386-pin-compatible 486s, I think - and also other products. This one you talked about with the piggy-back math-co sounds strange! One of the bennies of Intel is the internal 64-bit path to the math-co, wonder if that is true with Cyrix? Have you or anyone seen any reviews of the Cyrix chips? load ASPI drivers if the CDROM is hooked up! 46379,12,07/27/93,ANDY SHAPIRO,WARD