This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Naval Aircraft
Message #189190
Michael – The F/A-18E is to be a one-seater, the F/A-18F a two-seater. Jeff Schweiger
George – No problem, now that I understand your oint. Jeff Schweiger
Karl – The F/A-18 C/D line is still open, and the Navy will be buying the E/F. Jeff Schweiger
Paul – I'll try to get a current breakdown of the defense budget, but I don't have one handy. So far the base closure process (including clean-up) has cost more than it has saved. Something around 10% or less of the defense budget is research and development (this includes university…
Paul – Some defense procurement is indeed tied to maintaining the industrial base, but most isn't. We're now maintaining a force structure intended to meet current operational requirements, not cold war ones. DoD is even having to find novel ways of meeting the current requirements, as the forces we have…
Karl – The F/A-18 production line is not shut down. Jeff Schweiger
Marc – There is no Amiga A5000 on the market or announced to be on the market. There is an Amiga 500, is this what your friend was offered? Jeff Schweiger
Doug – Even though support has been terminated, is SAS/C still for sale? Jeff Schweiger
Mark – I don't know about this particular file, but I believe that .TAZ may indicate a TAR file that has been .Z 'compressed'. Jeff Schweiger
#Elect Day et.al.
Message #174020
Paul – What Senator Helms said with respect#to President Clinton being the "Commander in Chief" is inexcusable, but it isn't 'treason.' It ao doesn't reflect the attitude of the `embers of the military as I see it. He is the legally elected President, and the military respects that and his…
Since the current deadline for the trustees to submit a recommendation to the Bahamian Supreme Court is Oct 15, a decision may not have yet been made. On this end of the Atlantic, CEI has sounded fairly confident about their bid for C=, too. Until there is an official announcement,…
Tab – Apple has announced that they will be licensing there OS, so there will be authorized Mac clones. One of the strengths of the PowerPC architecture is that it represents the potential for a common hardware architecture with a low end in home use through high end industrial and…
Chris – AutoPilot (available in Library 9 of AmigaVendor Forum) is a program designed to optimize an Amiga user's time on CompuServe. It is a specialized program for automated message and file uploading and downloading, and also permits interactive CompuServe sessions. Jeff Schweiger
Steve, Guess I wasn't clear in what I was trying to say. I agree that the Naval Reserve (as well as the Marine Corps Reserve) is a federal force. I wasn't trying to say otherwise. The NY State Naval Militia is neither part of the National Guard or the Naval…
Steve – Actually, there still are state run militias, separate from the National Guard, not many, but they do exist. One that comes to mind is the New York State Naval Militia (also of interest is that the National Guard does not have a naval or marine component). We had…
Dale – I use Tapcis as an MS-DOS CIS automatic forum program. It is DOS based, not windows. Other programs, such as OzCIS also are in use. Demo version of Tapcis can be downloaded from the Tapcis forum (go tapcis). Jeff Schweiger
Chip, AutoPilot is available for download in demo form in Lib 9 of the AmigaVendor Forum. It is an automatic forum and messaging program for CompuServe. AutoPilot requires an Amiga with harddrive and AmigaDOS 2.04 or greater. I'm not familiar with digitalNation. It's probably a Unix system. Is your access…
Chip – Are you trying to send Internet email from CompuServe or via another host system? If it is CompuServe and you are using AmigaDos 2.04 or higher and have a harddrive, AutoPilot would give you both the graphic user interface and an easier way to send Internet email. Internet…
Jean – I use the US Robotics Sportster External 14.4 Faxmodem with my A2500 with no problems. I think that 149.00 is a reasonable price. Jeff Schweiger
Dale – Can a Rev 6.0 motherboard be upgraded, or is 6.0 to 6.2, etc. a board swap-out? Jeff Schweiger
Dan – The liquidation of CBM (actually Commodore International Limited), will not free up the Commodore copyright. The copyright on AmigaDOS will belong to someone unless it is explicitly placed in the public domain. Jeff Schweiger
Lou – I don't know if there still there or doing retail business, but Amigo Business Computers was doing business in the Northport area of Western Suffolk County. Let me know what you find out. (I'm a transplanted Long Islander presently in the DC area). Jeff Schweiger
Hal – Where did you the 2.1 WB enhancer kit? Jeff Schweiger
Kevin – CompuServe has shown no interest in releasing the HMI libraries necessary to make an 'AmigaCIM' to third party developers. Current, the only choice for supported automated forum software for the Amiga is AutoPilot, available in AmigaVendor Forum Section 9. Jeff Schweiger
Have you looked at AutoPilot in AmigaVendor Section 9. AutoPilot is the only currently supported automated CompuServe forum software for the Amiga. Jeff Schweiger
Ben – Have you checked Northgate? I remember hearing that they sold an A2000 – compatible keyboard… Jeff Schweiger
#152327-
Rumor Update
Message #152419
John – Interesting rumor. They'd be going up against someone who might just follow Dale's scenario — Novell. Novell now owns Digital Research, WordPerfect, and the spreadsheet division of Borland… Jeff Schweiger
Michael – The desire and ability to upgrade to a current version of the OS are two different things. For the 500/2000/2500, the KS 2.04 and 2.05 ROMS might still be available if you look hard enough, but it is getting rather difficult to get the full enhancer kits. I'm…
Dave – Whap! is no longer available, as it's author no longer supports it, and the CompuServe software is no longer totally compatible with it. It has been replaced by AutoPilot for systems with AmigaDos 2.04 and higher, available in the AmigaVendor Forum. Jeff Schweiger
Mario – Saying you got your information "fresh from the Internet-sources" doesn't necessarily add much to its credibility. Internet (I'm assuming you are talking about "Usenet" in this instance) frequently has a rather high 'noise-to-signal' ratio. Jeff Schweiger
Andy – While using the name "Phoenix" for an Amiga rising from the ashes is a nice concept, I wouldn't be surprised if the name is already trademarked for use with computers by the company that produces the Phoenix BIOS for MS-DOS machines. Jeff Schweiger
Daniel – From my understanding of how controls over technology related to national security work, I somehow doubt this (especially as how Commodore International isn't/wasn't even a US based company). Jeff Schweiger
Jerry – For all practical purposes, the individual small stockholders (I was (am?) one), had no real say in Commodore operations. Irving Gould held something like 20% of the stock, and basically had control by use of his shares and those of the institutional investors. At the last annual meeting,…
Wayne – Only CEL was announced to be immediately liquidated. CIL's assets are to be transferred to unnamed trustees. While the likely scenario is that the national companies will also be liquidated, that scenario is not what was announced. Ownership of those companies is to be transferred to the trustees.…
The wording of the C= announcement was interesting. Only Commodore Electronics Ltd is being immediately liquidated. The Commodore International Ltd assets are being transferred to trustees. This could mean the the various "wholly owned" subsidiaries are being transferred as operating companies to the unnamed trustees. It would up to the…
Oh, it's been noticed that C= is going away. CNN broadcast news of the liquidation several times today. Jeff Schweiger
Chris – Commodore stock is trading on other exchanges, and OTC, not on the NYSE at present. It is still listed on the NYSE, but has not opened for trading there since March 25. The last Commodore (CBU) trade on the NYSE closed at 3 on March 25. Jeff Schweiger
David – I haven't checked today, yet, but last time I checked, Commodore was still listed on the NYSE, just not trading there. Jeff Schweiger
Kelly – Installer was reuploaded as INSTAL.LHA Jeff Schweiger
Matt – Actually, I have to agree with Andrew on this one. I do not agree that "ALL benchmarks are useless". Benchmarks have their place. If they didn't, they wouldn't be in use. In this specific case, I was surprised that the Motorola press release referenced VAX MIPS, but not…
William – LHA138.RUN is a self-extracting archive (just execute LHA138.RUN to extract the file). LHA can be used to unarchive .LHA and .LZH files. Jeff Schweiger
Jo-Anne – I expect one of the sysop's will jump in here shortly, but both .LHA and .LZH files can be uncompressed (unarchived) using LHA138.RUN, available for download from Lib 16 here. LHA138.RUN is a self-extracting archive. The .TXT files are simple text files that can be read with any…
Jeff – The successor to Whap! is called AutoPilot, and requires AmigaDos 2.0 to run (1.3 won't do). You can find the functional demo in Lib 9 of AmigaVendor Forum. Jeff Schweiger
Rick – Following up on Betty's response to you, TAPCIS is another automatic message program for CompuServe for MS-DOS machines (that should work on a 286). You can type 'go tapcis' for info. Jeff Schweiger
JimDoc – My 1994 yellow pages list Buried Treasure, Inc. in Rockville as an Amiga dealer. Maybe John Chang know of others, as Scala is headquartered in Northern Virginia. Jeff Schweiger
Pat – Which computer store are you referring to? The new 1994 Northern Virgnia yellow pages has Buried Treasure in Rockville, MD, Virginia Micro Computer Services in Woodbridge, VA and Amiga on Consignment in Chantilly, VA as Amiga dealers. Jeff Schweiger
There are several Amiga ethernet products listed in the Winter 1994 edition of "AC's Guide (for the Commodore Amiga)". You might want to look them up. As you had requested responses from those with experience with Amiga networking I did not respond earlier (I have no such experience).
Rich – The Hayes modem command set (which many modems use, ie, "Hayes compatible") has commands that control how 'result codes' are displayed. I believe that the "X1" command (as in "AT X1") gives the 'extended result code set' in most compatible modems. This set gives the speed of modem…
William – CrossDOS is not bundled with WB 2.0, I believe it is included with 2.1 Jeff Schweiger
Steve – I've seen one, but it's old, and wasn't the best. It's called Ami3270. I don't have a copy handy at the moment, but could probably find it somewhere on the Internet. It's freeware and unsupported. Jeff
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