46180,12,03/31/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,ROY LIPSCOMB R/CBBS IN C, Well, actually I dug around a bit more and found some C routines that do interrupt-driven serial I/O, and I even brought up a comm program using 'em and everything was fine. The decicison will be whether to do it op-sys independent, i.e. so it could be ported to Chinet, or just "get it done on a PC". CBBS was down for a few days, and that provides the incentive I need to push toward a "C"BBS... But with Carpal Tunnel coming on strong, I'm having to find ways to spend my time WITHOUT a PC - or spend minimally $2K for a Dragon Systems voice system... (and I wonder if you can use it while watching TV or listening to the stereo!) 46181,18,03/31/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,DAVID JOHNSON R/PCMANAGE, Well, I guess managing a PC's disk space is more a matter of just "getting organized" - such as installing new versions on TOP of old ones, instead of in a separate dir where you then have both... But one problem with that, is that when you install the new version, if there are files related to the old one that aren't needed, you don't know that, and they just sit around. I guess that the answer is just to double your disk space every few years. Lets see, from 15M in '82, to about a total of 900M now, I should do some calc's - 60 times. Hmmm, in say 10 years. How often do you double to get 60 times? Hmmm, need logs.. 2^n = 60? n log 2 = log 60? n = log 60 / log 2? Comes out to about 6. No, that's not it. Oh, means it doubled 6 times, in 10 years, call it 120 months/6 times = 20 months, so I gotta double my storage every 20 months? Heh. My $1299 520M drive (from about 20 months ago, come to think of it) - now goes for, so my dealer says, about $849! One of my problems is I like keeping old data around - and DO read it to index it with Magellan. SO that screws the "pcmanage" idea... Any other thoughts? Anyone else want to jump into this discussion? 46280,01,05/31/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,ANDY SHAPIRO R/AN INNOVATION...?, I don't understand - just where does the mouse cable go into? 46380,05,07/28/93,AL HIGGINS,WARD CHRISTENSEN R/COMPUTER CENTRAL, The COD computer show is almost every month. Schedule for the rest of the year is as follows: September 26, 1993 October 31, 1993 November 28, 1993 46381,04,07/29/93,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,ALL MEMORY UP NOW 125%, Forget stocks and gold, I should have been in SIMM futures. ..... I just was quotes SIMM proces today at 125% of their price about 3 weeks ago. This is crazy, but on a 4meg system this has added over $200 to the cost of a machine... someone is making out like a bandit. 46480,05,10/02/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,STAN BROHN CBBS, No, CBBS hasn't been available for quite a while. Maybe nearly 10? I don't know. It is running here on a highly modified PC running a CP/M emulator and V20 chip! I really SHOULD write it in C if I want it to go on "forever", heh. What was the 1:3800 in your phone number? Never saw that! 46481,03,10/02/93,ABU BAKAR,SYSOP PAY RESPECT, Hi! I know it's the first BBS in the world, just got my modem and wanna pay my my respect. Say, u got a simple machine to run the bbs. Don't carry any files . Will call back again. I might be the first one from Malaysia to ccall huh!? bo