Co-Op Spirit 1993-9
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'. ,.- e. o • ow The Monthly Newsletter of the TechAlliance Computer Co-operative September 93 Vo13,Nr 8 Contents Co-op Comments The TechAUiDnce BBS crash of 8/9 August took a serious toll on our library. TA BBS: .............................................. 3 Basically, everything uploaded during 1992 and 93 was lost - something like 300 megabytes in all. There's no getting around it - this was a heavy blow to us and it will ~ New Users Guide: Part I be awhile before we are reasonably recovered. S till, we are moving ahead with our plans ~t'hic~ e'.'~ be!ore the C!!Sh~ '~e e~pected u,'et!!~ ;-retty !!!U~~ r~m!ke t.~e BES .- C!!.!r.. or no crash. Steve Cavanaugh, our fearless Sysop, has already added another 85+ new Apple IIGS: ......................................... 5 fido echoes (public mail conferences) and he's created a new me backbone (a library ~ GNO/ME 2.0 P.R. and Specs whose mes are automatically uploaded by other Fido sites) with plans to add several more mebones soon. Thanks too to not just a few of our more loyal BBS callers, we've seen many of the most critical utilities and applications (particularly those relating to Macintosh: ........................................... 6 telecommunications) re-uploaded. This means that our callers can once again anticipate ~ Centris 660AV and Quadra 840AV being able to download the latest electronic tools needed to enjoy their online time. Further down the reconstruction path our sysops plan to add software improvements to our user interface to include easier access to Internet email. So hang in there and enjoy the metamorphosis of one of the oldest BBS sites in the country -some of you old timers IBM/PC: ............................................. 7 do remember calling into the A.P.P.L.E. Crate, right? ~ Byte Notes (Upgrading Correctly) I guess the other significant news is the announcement that I' 11 be giving up the Co op Spirit Newsleuer in its present hardcopy form with the January 94 issue. Again, not Amiga: ................................................. 8 to fear, the news that's inside these pages and truly much, much more, will continue to ~ Amiga CD32 Press Release be readily available from the BBS in electronic form. The basic plan is to convert the Newsletter into a User's Guide fornavigating the T echAUiDnce bulletin board. As such, it will be mailed out to new members and renewing members only. For those who 'don't yet have aBBS account, we will be offering machine specific terminal software and other related utilities on disks for a very nominal postage+shipping fee. As much as I've Renewal Form ...................................... 9 enjoyed learning the basics of PageMaker, the work involved in transforming "ragged ASCn" Internet text into Times Roman with full justification along with the time and money spent in assembling and mailing each newsletter each month has become more SIG Meeting Information .................... 9 of a chore than I can afford. So I feel the time has come to save a few trees and give in to the power of the electronic press. I doubt anyone will be long disappointed with this decision. If I'm wrong, hey, have I got a deal for you ... ! SIG Meeting Locator Maps ................ 10 John Keithly President. TechAUiance People Helping People with Computing Technolgy TechAliiance Voice/Fax (Help Line) ...•.•••••..•.•.••••.....••...•••••..•...•..•.•...••..••• (206) 870·1556 PO Box 3308 BBS (North Seattle call forward) ••.•••••.••••••••••••.••••••...••••..•. (206) 281·8298 Kent, WA TA BBS (300,1200,2400,9600 baud) •••••••.••••••••••••••••••.••••••• (206) 277·6070 98032-0206 TA BBS (300,1200,2400,9600, 14.4K baud) ....................... (206) 277·6052 Fidonet Node 1:343/133 Internet Address: [email protected] Vol. 3, Nr. 8 September 1993 fonnat. Alternatively, articles may also be uploaded to the the The Co-op Spirit is the newsletter of TechAlliance, a non TechAlliance BBS and placed in the TechAlliance Library profit computer co-operati ve committed to providing members NewsArticles section. TechAlliance reserves the right to re wi th resources that increase their understanding and enjoyment view, edit. and refuse articles at its discretion. of personal computers. TechAlliance supports members with Special Interest Group equipment for the Apple ll/llGS, the Permission to Reprint Macintosh. IBM/PCs, and the Amiga; both beginning and Unless specified otherwise, orginally published articles origi advanced assistance are provided at our meetings. This nally appearing in the Co-op Spirit may be reprinted by other newsletter is sent monthly to every member. It consists primarily non-profit user groups, provided proper credit is given in the of reprints from electronic text found on Usenet public con byline to both the author(s), and to TechAlliance. ferences; we also welcome original contributions from our members. For those members with telecomputing hardware TechAlllance Board of Directors and software, all of the information printed in the Co-op Spirit John Keithly President Norm Dodge V. President (and much more) can be downloaded from the News Articles Dave DeGroot Treasurer Unassigned Secretary and Educator library sections of our BBS. Rober Huelsdonk Director James Walley Director Steve Cavanaugh Director Memberships SIG SIG Leader BBS SIGop You may join TochA!li-ance asa ne,,! member cr renew your Apple II Phil Lindberg Richard Hall existing membership by filling out the fonn on the inside back AppleIIGS Phil Lindberg Gerry Drake cover of this newsletter and mailing it. along with your annual Macintosh Dale Beasley Tom Loomis dues to TechAlliance. Annual membership dues are $30.00 for Mac Programmers Lloyd Ollman Tom Loomis Washington S tate King and Pierce County residents, $25.00 for ffiM/PC Paul Stout Bob Caldwell AmigAlliance James Walley John Keithly other US memberships, and $35.00 for foreign memberships. Amiga Developers Syd Schofield Vacant Disclaimer BBS System Operators Steve Cavanaugh Opinions presented e.g., in the fonn of reviews and particularly Paul Stout in the evaluation of products, are not necessarily endorsed by Editor & DTP John Keithly TechAlliance. Rather, the views expressed in this newsletter are those of the individual contributors. Meeting Schedule Renewing and New Members Please see the back cover of this newsletter for meeting dates, times, and locations. Please call the TechAlliance Help Line or WT Brerlehoft Maple Valley. WA II IIGS check the TechAlliance monthly SIG schedule posted on the W Thomas Cook Columbia,MD II IIGS T A BBS for the latest infonnation regarding SIG meeting AnhurDieli H. Harbor. NY II IIGS Mac IBM/PC Kelly Doser M. Terrace. WA Unit topics. James Freeburg Port Orchard. W A II IIGS Mark James C. Springs. CO IIGS Mac IBM/PC SubmiSSions Roger Jones Fulton. MO IIGS Mac IBM/PC The deadline for submitting articles, news, and meeting an Roger Mcintosh Boulder,CO IIIBM/PC nouncements is the 15th day of the month preceding publica Gail Schell Seattle. WA Mac tion. For example, submissions for the March Co-op Spirit David Weeks W. Seattle. WA II IIGS Ray Youngblood Houston. TX II IIGS IBM/PC should be received prior to February 16th. We accept article submissions on 3.5 inch or 5.25 disk in ASCII (plain text) 2 CO·OP SPl'Rj'I TABBS New User's Guide to the TechAlliance BBS: Part I The Main Menu, & Getting TelCom Software Introduction: This is the first part of what is being planned <C>onference: This is not a likely place to be going as a to eventually be a five part series on how to get around new bulletin board user. Nonetheless it is an option worth efficiently on the TechAlliance BBS. This first article will be knowing about. Ifyou want to talk to someone else who is online a fairly broad brush treatment that will cover Main Menu at the same time as you are and "chat" about a topic of mutual choices, and will identify software available for interfacing interest, you must frrst enter this menu selection. Since my space with the TechAlliance BBS. Future articles will be devoted to is tight for this article, I won't say much more about "realtime" such topics as: (1) Using the online email editor, (2) How to conferencing. The best way to learn more if you're in a hurry to make use of Offline Mail readers, (3) Downloading and learn about this option is to check out the appropriate help file uploading files, and (4) Using Net Mail to send private mail to (see above). Fidonet and Internet addressees. Hopefully, I will adequately explain whatever technical terminology that happens to comes <F>iles: Okay, we are homing in one some goodies now. up. But just in case, I also plan to add a glossary of terms to This selection will take you to our libraries of computer specific my final article so that if you don't understand some of the files; this is where you can download files and use them as phraseology this first time around, you'll have a second utilities, applications, etc., on your home computer. There are chance later on. also newsworthy articles available here which can usually be downloaded as text files. The art of file downloading is fairly Where to go from the Main Menu: After frrst logging on complex, however. So, I'm going to put off explaining this menu to the TechAlliance BBS, you will be asked a series of maybe option until a later issue of the Co-op Spirit. Again, if you want half a dozen questions -the frrst of which are designed to information on this right now, my advice for the time being would make your computer terminal display "look good". Follow be to check out the help files pertaining to this topic. It's time ing the questions, you will arrive at the Main Menu and then instead to cover the vertically listed menu items.