LI FILE ON MARGIN IS 128 STATUS: ALL ALLOWED NUMBER OF LINES: 618 1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask.... 2 ************************ REMOVED: 20 MAY 84 ***************** 3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day CISTern OPerator 4 ************************************************************ 5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION 6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM. 7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privately owned 8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public. 9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is 10 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved) 11 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the 12 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the 13 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace 14 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up. 15 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system. 16 ************************************************************ 17 18 && && && 19 Guess who made it to the top this time?? 20 && && && 21 Gaius was pleased. The decoy he'd sent to occupy his brother was working perfectly. Not that he was worried about 22 his sibling's interference, it was those blasted drinking buddies of his from the Inn. Individually he felt hee 23 could handle most of them, but they had gotten in the habit of travelling in packs, and even the great Gaius 24 couldn't watch every direction at once. Now, however, he felt secure that he could proceed with his plan in safety. 25 Stepping to his workbench, he picked up a strangely cold card, so absolutely black that it was hard to see. 26 "This is the Shadow Uncast," he spoke to the card, "the plan to isolate the Inn in Shadow is proceeding on 27 scedule. Interference is expected soon, so be on your guard and report often. That is all." 28 Gaius laid the card back in it's case and turned to his freshly-drawn bath. Might as well relax and enjoy it, he 29 thought, it may be the last chance for a while... 30 && The Mad Actor && 31 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 32 Well, HAWTHORNE, since no one else volunteers to answer your Trekkie question, 33 here's the answer: The USS Constellation was destroyed in "The Doomsday Machine", 34 second season, written by Norman Spinrad. Costars William Windom. 35 'I beamed them down to the second planet.' 'Matt, there IS no second 36 planet.' 'Don't you think I know that? There WAS, but NOT ANY MORE!' 37 ???????????????????????????? QUIZMASTER ????????????????????????????? 38 %#$%(#$^(@$#^(#(^@(^($(&(%#$(&(@(&($(%@(&(&($%(&@(&(#(&($(&(@$(&@$(&(@$%(&(@&(@& 39 Voyeur...Everyone seems to be breaking up into groups...What say we join forces 40 and try to get back to the inn together? You seem to know much more about this 41 strange land than I do, but I do have a mode of transportation, if I can get 42 the car running again...the car does have special suspension and a limited 43 slip Detroit locker 9" rear end, if that is any help... 44 And you who call yourseld the Bard! You certainly do have an interesting 45 assortment of gadgets and gizmos in your pack. You are welcome to join us 46 also, unless you already have other plans to get back, in which case, maybe 47 WE can join YOU! 48 When we decide, I'll go out and try to get the car started again, and this 49 time, no sneaking up behind me! One dent in the hood in enough! 50 By the way, does anyone know what time it is back in Portland? I had an 51 appointment out at a hi-tech place called Tektronix before I found myself 52 here, and I just want to know if I am going to be late or not... 53 Well...off to internal combustion, rather than reality conflict for me... 54 *)(#@*%)#$@*% 55 PS To Voyeur: Hopefully I will make it do the meeting Saturday. It depends on 56 how my Fortran compiler and I get along before hand. Do you have any docs to 57 give back to me yet? Just checking...no big rush... 58 Hawthorne: DO you upload your messages? There seem to be several dropouts 59 in your messages. Either that or you like to ride HOSES... The former seems 60 to be having some tough luck... 61 *$)#@*$#@)$* L'homme sans parity - Le mecanicien de voiture aujourd'hui (*)$(%#$ 62 jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 63 The Ninja swung his stick shift through the cubicle which dissolved 64 and brought him back out in Innifall where he started. 65 The Ninja 66 jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 67 *************************************************************** 68 GUESS WHAT GUYS? 69 *************************************************************** 70 * * 71 *************************************************************** 72 THIS IS THE PHANTOM WRITTER AND I HAVE ONE THING TO SAY I'M LEAVING LET'S CHEER YEAH YEAH THRILLS I'M NOT BUGGING THIS SYSTEM A 73 Well,what ever happend to Phoenix???????????????????????????????????????>?????????????????????????????????Phantom Writter?????? 74 75 does anyone know where I can buy a hard disk for an Apple II 76 for about 1k ? 77 78 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 79 JEE-SUS CHRIST but it got dark fast,must be some realy bad weather comming down. 80 with that,Graymalkin goes back to the baths and relaxes in a stone tub... 81 The Man in Gray 82 p.s. Voyeur,you know the method used to find you out?? can we perhaps arange 83 something of the same for the so-called "phantom writer"?? i'm a fan of free 84 speech,but this has GOT to stop.???????????????????????????????????????????????? 85 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 86 Master: Are you admitting that my comments were true by not replying? 87 I thought as much!!! 88 ????????????? 89 As The Doctor, Milchar, and K-9 step into the magical 'hole' that Milchar has 90 created, The Doctor decides to cast a few protective spells on his friends and 91 himself. "No need to cast them my friend," says Milchar, "we are quite safe in 92 here. My power is still at the same strength as when we last battled Arson. 93 That scuffle, which I think you will agree it was, actually made me more power- 94 ful than you think! If my protective spells do fail, I pray they don't, we can 95 always use the magnetic current modular that you built into K-9." The Doctor 96 stands there for a moment, pondering his present situation. After a few minutes 97 he comes to a decision. "Milch, old friend and companion, I hav have trust in 98 you and your m. The only reasooonn 99 reason at I was casting those spells was for added protection. Doon 100 101 ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The Doctor ????????????? 102 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 103 hello there!!!, 104 could anyone please tell me how to get the coller to put around the three 105 headed dog in zork ii??????c'mon you guys answer!!!!!!!!! 106 xxxxxxxxxxxpheric foerender xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 107 are you paranoid????? 108 im doing a poll if you are then print your name and adress and where you wil 109 be at all times,your phone number and your social sucurity,master card numbers 110 what clubs you belong to and who you voted for in the oregon primary on may 15. 111 we will get back at you 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 113 "Well, if it will make you feel better. Now to follow this hole." 114 They walk down a perfectly circular tunnel that seems to be composed of small 115 white lines intertwined into a rough mat. Pulses of energy flowed from the 116 hole behind them, as already the natural forces of reality-space were at work 117 to repair the troublesome breach. The hole was becoming smaller, now there 118 was no doubt! "Uhh... Doc? We have a problem here. Someone's accelerated 119 this reality-space's regeneration rate, and the tunnel we are now walking in 120 will soon cease to exist, with us in it. Personally, I dislike the idea of 121 non-existance, as it would be so BORING. K-9, could you please slow the 122 process as much as posssible while we move on?" 123 "Affirmative. I am complying. Rate of decay now stands at 1 meter every 124 5.67372 minutes sidereal time." 125 The Doctor said as he finished the last of the bread, "Well, now. That gives 126 us a whole 13.5320632 minutes, doesn't it? Plenty of time. Where did you 127 say our first stop was, Milch? Is there any food to be had thereabouts?" 128 Milchar ignored him for the moment, and concentrated on the Amulet. Power 129 surged from him and flew into the latticework of strings about them. Milchar 130 seems to weaken for a moment... It passes. "Decay of Reality Tunnel now 131 reversing itself. Estimated time for complete decay is now 34.1573 minutes." 132 Milchar comments, "I believe that I shall need food also, my friend.... and 133 rest. How I need rest........." 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar +++++++++++++++++ 135 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 136 while the rest of the Backwater crew is triing to get to the inn,Graymalkin is 137 floating in a hot tub in the roman baths,a thought comes to him from an unknown 138 source.(##the Phantom Writers phone code is 620-07xx,if he doesn't get real 139 smart,real soon,use your abilitys on him remember to thank ryur56vh##) 140 "well damn,lost the thought signal,oh well,perhaps the person to thank will`make 141 himself known to me later." 142 The Man in Gray 143 P.S.Mr T.N. I believe this is your only warning,quit the "phantom writer" shit. 144 (apologys to Mother/Gran`mother/afyone with overly 145 (mom,down with the phone,thankyou) sensitive eyes. 146 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 147 DEATHTOPHANTOMWRITTER DEATHTOPHANTOMWRITTER DEATHTOPHANTOMWRITTER 148 WE WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE OUR MAN OF THE YEAR AWARDS - THIS YEAR THE 149 WINNER IS - THE MAN IN GREY - THROUGH IS EFFORTS, THE HORRIBLE PHANTOM 150 WRITTER (PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO MISPELL HIS NAME) HAS BEEN EXPOSED, AND 151 WILL SOON BE GONE FOREVER. MAN IN GREY, YOUR EFFORTS WILL BE HIGHLY 152 REWARDED. YOU ARE A TRUE CREDIT TO MEN IN GREY EVERYWHERE. AGAIN, WE 153 THANK YOU. HOPEFULLY, MAIDS (BETTER KNOWN AS DEATHTOA$) CAN LEAVE BW 154 IN THE CONDITION IT WAS BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF PHANTOM WRITTER AND 155 FRIENDS. NOW IF WE COULD ONLY FIND A WAY TO TAPE HAWTHORNES HANDS 156 TOGETHER. 157 DEATHTOPHANTOMWRITTER DEATHTOPHANTOMWRITTER DEATHTOPHANTOMWRITTER 158 ************************************************************************* 159 Apprentice, I think we should go to the INN. I don't know why, just a 160 hunch. Since you don't have transportation handy why don't you share this 161 potion of 162 random potion of transportation with me. It is guaranteed to get us 163 wherever we want to go. Just no guarantee's of how. Not five minutes 164 after drinking the potion Whisper and the apprentice are somewhat 165 surprised to see and hear an electric trolley come tootling out of the 166 nearby hillside and pull up to a stop beside them. This must be our ride 167 apprentice, lets get on now before something even weirder shows up. 168 As they find seats the trolley tottles the William Tell Overture and 169 with two clanks and groan rattles off into the hill on the other side 170 of the valley. I don't know how long this will take or whether this 171 is a thru ride Whisper whispers to the apprentice and greeneyes. I guess 172 we'll just have to wait and see. Remember don't eat anything well 173 we are in the hill. 174 ********************************** WHISPER ***************************** 175 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 176 MiG: your position seems to be very advantageous. Do these people 177 confide in you? Also, was the person you addressed your first warning 178 to (Bobby) the same one I addressed a letter to on a certain other board? 179 If so, he didn't seem to take the hint. See you Saturday? (if so, 180 does Kelly get to be bored again?) 181 ::::::::::: 182 L'homme: since most of our communicating seems to be with each other, it 183 seems logical to team up. My major problem is that this adventure in 184 'Amber' seems to have strayed rather far from the Amber that I am 185 familiar with. 186 I will talk to Corwin, ask him to show me how to 'motivate' your car. 187 With it running, I will be able to shift realities as we drive from Amber, 188 each reality being more like Innisfall and less like Amber. 189 ::::::::: 190 Question: Are we all just returning to the Inn? No concerted attack or 191 anything clever like that? Just a mob dribbling in as we get there? And 192 what of the threat, waiting there to pick us off one by one (or two by two)? 193 :::::::::: 194 L'homme again: no problem with the docs. I copied everything I needed from 195 the 'orange' one, the 'blue' one (small pages) I have not really gotten into 196 yet, due to the hangup it has. (nudge nudge). I also got mine copied for you. 197 If you want them Saturday, I'll bring them to the meeting, else wait until 198 I see you again (which will be fairly soon, I guesstimate). 199 :::::::: 200 Well, I see Bud Clark got Portland! Surprise Surprise! Now what's he going 201 to do with it? 202 :::::::::: 203 L'homme: (one more time): I caught your act on cable. Complaint-- 204 the film was fuzzy; I couldn't read the messages (like my own. I'm going to 205 have to be more careful what I write, no telling where it might end up. 206 One of those messages was private, due to the sensitivity of the subject matter) 207 :::::::::::::::::::::::::O O:::::::::voyeur::::::::::O O::::::::::::::: 208 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 209 gee, the only person to ask of my well-being was MiG? Maybe my BWMS days 210 are coming to a close... Will try to visit more often... 211 BARD: if our mutual friend has your new # will contact you re:arch ASAP. 212 Aaron 213 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 214 MAGICAL AIRWAVES CRACKLE WITH LIFE! 215 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 216 Sometimes a rush from all sides crushes the enemy in the center. 217 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 218 "I'd be glad to hitch a ride - have you ever WALKED 5000 lines?" 219 As they approached the car Bard, voyeur & M. L'homme were busily discussing 220 means of activating the vehicle.... 221 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 222 Voyeur: Once we get a little paratime between us & Amber I can use my gear 223 to aid in the shifting. I figure that it might be a good idea to have an 224 alternate method... We will have to be careful though, if we use both at the 225 same time we may get a synergistic reaction! 226 M. L'homme:I'll need to hook some gear to the electrical system of your car 227 a cigarette lighter will do in a pinch, but if you have a stereo or CB 228 hook-up I would rather use that. 229 No need to worry about the time, if we get out of this ok. I'll show 230 how to route thru some reverse time-flows - you can get back before you 231 left! 232 MIG:sorry, I meant to address Greymalkin! (hint: Title-The Indian Giver, 233 characters- Guig, Fee Five Chinese, etc) 234 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 235 "Whisper, I hope that thou knowest what thou art about. What do you 236 think of our new friend?" inquired the apprentice, indicating the five foot 237 saber-toothed cat he had introduced as "Green Eyes". 238 ..............................the apprentice................................ 239 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 240 How stupid of me Bard,I forgot all about that little hint.I knew that one of 241 the BW people would be well read enough to catch it.i've decided to give 242 Graymalkin the capabilitys that Guig had.Wanna try and make the "death to x" 243 person immortal??(he he,chuckle) 244 Aaron,perhaps if there was a XXXXXXXXX discussion going on,people would miss 245 your rapier wit more. 246 The Man in Gray?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 247 Gee,just spent 4 hours on other BBS's and came back here,BW be gettin slow. 248 also BW line busy 99.99% of time,very vicious lurkers we have. 249 Voyeur:No,they don't confide in me,they are stupid and easily caught 250 A 251 252 whoops,there is a GTE man working on my neighbors line today,I think I shall 253 254 term him if he hits my line again. 255 All:does anyone know the delete char for VAX/VMS vers 3.5?? ctrl H doesn't 256 seem touhhhhaihf8008y8@q@q|~67[([~4qfbf 257 (will definantly term pho~a 258 man) 259 MiG again 260 jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 261 Wait a minute I deserve some of the credit for catching the Phantom 262 Writter. Who do you think gave MiG the message on the magical tome in which 263 to find his number? 264 The Ninja 265 TO:SYSOP 266 FROM: ERIC BERG 267 268 COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHAT LANGUAGE YOU RUN 269 270 YOUR SYSTEM ON BY LEAVING A MESSAGE TO ERIC 271 TO:SYSOP 272 FROM:ERIC BERG 273 274 COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHAT LANGUAGE YOU RUN YOUR SYSTEM 275 ON. I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT. PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE TO ERIC BERG. 276 HMMMM,THE PHANTOM WRITER HAS BEEN CAUGHT AND DEPOSED AND MOT A PEEP OUT OF HIM SINCE.GEE,AND TO THE DEATH TO WHOMEVER PERSON 277 AT LEAST YOU DIDNT SPRAY PAINT DEATH TO T.N. ON THE CENTRAL BRANCH OF THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARY.THANK ENTROPY FOR SMALL 278 FAVORS... 279 SORRY FOR THE SCANDAL INVOLVIN G THE HOSES.AT LEAST THE FORMER WASNT ARRESTED AND TRIED FOR INDECENT EXPOSURE.UGH,AN EIGHT 280 FOOT TALL BATRACHOID WITH A BAD SENSE OF HUMOR.HOW MUCH DID YOU SAY ONE OF THOSE POLICE CARS COS T THE CITY ? 281 QUIZMASTER;GOOD JOB.NICE TO SEE SOME BACKGROUND IN A TREKKER INSTEAD OF THE USUAL "Y'NOW THA T ONE EPISODE WITH THE CAT,AND 282 TERRI GAR ?".DO YOU HAVE A CONCO RDANCE,A COMPENDIUM OR JUST A VERY GOOD MEMORY FOR STAR TREK TRIVIA?HERES SOMETHING TO TRY; 283 HOWSABOUT GIVING ME THE NAMES OF EVERY EPISODE IN WHICH ANY CONS TITUTION CLASS SHIP WAS LOST OR DESTROYED ? 284 WELL I FOUND A PHONE JACK IN MY PRIME CLASSROOM AND SPENT HAL F OF THE DAY IN THERE WITH A DISK MOD iii TRASH TRYING TO SH 285 OW PEOPLE BLACKWATER.BUT NONE OF THE FOUR TERMINAL PROGRAMS THAT I TRIED WORKED.SO I HAVE TO TRY A COLOR COMPUTER VIDEOTEX ROM 286 PACKAGE.LETS HOPE IT WORKS SHALL WE?AND IF ANYONE OUT THERE HAS A SPARE ISSUE OF 80MICRO HOWSDIS ONE LINE TERMINAL PROGRAM SUPP 287 OSE TO WORK.IT IS THE LAT ONE AND I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP ,LORD WOULD I APPRECIATE IT.AND AFTER BUYING ONE OF THOSE CRAP- 288 PY LITTLE PHONES TOO... 289 OH YES BEFORE I GO SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHEN WILL THE DEA TH TO WHOMEVER PERSON FINALLY FIGUIRE OUT THAT I DONT KNOW WH 290 HE HAS DECIDED I AM UNDESIRABLE ?WHAT HORRIBLE DEED COULD I HAVE DONE TO AGGRAVATE HIM SO.OR HER AS THE CASE MAY BE. 291 WHEN WILL PAM RETURN? 292 SIGNED, 293 PROMETHEUS 294 HAWTHORNE 295 296 POST SCRIPTUS;EVAN I ONLY NOW FOUND YOUR CORRECT ANSWER TO THE ARENA QUESTION.NICE JOB.CARE TO EXCHANGE AGAIN ? 297 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 298 The travellers quicken their steps, and reach the other end of the Reality 299 Tunnel before it closes. K-9, as always, brought up the rear. The edge of 300 the Hole passes by..... They are in a dark and misty valley, the sun being 301 either below the horizon or blotted out by the mist, Milchar wasn't sure 302 A wave of exhaustion washes over Milchar, as the spell he has used to keep 303 going has failed. "Magic always did have a tiring effect on me, and with all 304 this mind-calling I just can't keep up with it. We must find shelter, and 305 I must put myself in a Trance. I wonder why this happens? It could be my 306 strange blood..." Through all of this, The Doctor just barely gives any 307 attention to the mage as he scans the way ahead. "K-9, any sign of 308 civilization within a one-mile radius? Specify the nearest occurance, please." 309 "Now scanning. Sensors indicate small cottage .8743 kilometers NW from 310 present position." The Doctor tplaces himsellf under one of Milchar's arms, 311 and half-carries the mage off in one direction. Trails of mist are swept 312 aside as they walk. 313 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar +++++++++++++++++++ 314 ************************************************************************** 315 Apprentice I must admit our new companion gave me a start at first. Do I know 316 (her/him?) in some other form. Oops the trolley is stopping lets see, where 317 are we. No, we're not at the inn yet. Must be time to change forms of 318 transportation. Oh God, an Orc drawn rickshaw. Don't worry, we'll get there. 319 This potion is guaranteed. I picked it up at Crazy Jacks cutrate magic 320 emporium but i had it checked out by the best alchemist in Agnath. See, 321 there's a map in that pouch there and a whip on the running board. Why don't 322 you use the whip and get those orcs moving while I check out this map. 323 ****************************************************** WHISPER ************* 324 P.S. Design a system that any fool can use and only a fool will wan't 325 to use it. SHAW'S PRINCIPLE 326 **************************************************************************** 327 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 328 Well, I was watching Johnny Carson this evening, one of his guests was 329 the puzzle editor from OMNI magazine. That turkey used several of my puzzles! 330 The OTTFFSS puzzle, and the 3 boxes (apples, oranges, and mixed). Carson had 331 a lot of problems with those two, although he whizzed through the spelling 332 parts. (commonly misspelled words: asinine, accommodate, and others) 333 How much was rehearsed, I know not. 334 ??????????? 335 HAWTHORNE: I have no concordat, no compendium. Just my worn-out, beat-up 336 "The Making of Star Trek", which I pull out when need be, but have by 337 no means memorized. Its uses run more along the lines of general information 338 about the show, rather than true trivia. Obviously, I am working up to 339 something, to wit--I don't know the answer to your Trekkie question. 340 I do know the four ships destroyed: Constellation, Farragut, Valiant, and 341 Intrepid. I THINK the Intrepid was populated by Vulcans, and was destroyed 342 in The Immunity Syndrome. The Constellation we've already disposed of. 343 ?? 344 Your one-line terminal program from 80-Micro looks like this: 345 10 CLS:PRINT15"A SHORT TERMINAL PROGRAM BY DON MOORE":POKE16890,0 346 DEFUSR0=90:DEFUSR1=80:DEFUSR2=85:X=USR0(0):FORI=1TO2STEP0:X=USR1(0): 347 PRINTCHR$(PEEK(16872)AND127);:C$=INKEY$:IFC$=""THENNEXTELSEPOKE16880,ASC(C$): 348 X=USR2(0):NEXT 349 ?? 350 I have no idea if it works, since I don't have a Model 3. 351 Here are some comments regarding your question about your unpopularity. 352 Appearance makes a big and long-lasting impression. You came in with a 353 rather bizarre style, and alienated many people quickly. You cleaned up 354 your act, but unfortunately you have already been relegated to the 355 "DEATH TO..." crowd. You now face the same problem as is faced by women 356 trying to make it in male occupations. In order to become accepted as 357 "one of the guys", you have to do Better than them (but not to the 358 point of becoming a 'show off'). Some suggestions: Use lower case if 359 you have it. Upper-case-only immediately tells readers that you are just 360 a kid with a toy. No self respecting computer user would demean himself with 361 something so cheap that it doesn't have lower case (unquote. I just converted 362 my model 1 to lower case about a year ago, so I suppose that I am a recent 363 graduate). 364 Also, and this is probably the most important, correct your grammer, 365 punctuation, and spelling. (no, you can't get away from school, even here). 366 I get very tired trying to decipher messages that have letters missing, 367 words misspelled, and gaps like this throughout the text. 368 I keep a dictionary handy when I enter messages here, especially when I 369 plan to criticize someone elses spelling. After you have entered a message, 370 read back through it to check for misspellings and other errors. If you write 371 like I often do (and am doing now), I compose as I enter. This leads to 372 disjointed thoughts, and a certain jerkiness in the writing. In a message such 373 as this one, I suppose it is acceptable (since I am doing it, it must be). 374 If you plan on entering a lengthy story line, it might be a good idea 375 to write it first on paper, get the wording right, check the spelling, etc. 376 As you can see, there is a certain amount of work involved in joining 377 the 'in' crowd. Here, as in life, you get back what you put in. (that's the 378 way it's supposed to work, anyway). 379 This applies to all those who seem to be 'persona non gratas' around here lately 380 Phoenix, Phantom Writter (the person who writes is a writer, not a writter). 381 For what it's worth, this is how I view the situation. 382 Now to go back and check how badly I violated my own suggestions... 383 ??????????????????????????? QUIZMASTER ???????????????????????????????? 384 Well, I went back and looked, and sure enough, it's jerky, and I didn't 385 say a lot of the things I was going to. Nevertheless, I stand by what 386 I said. If you need further clarification, let me know. I, or some other 387 eager volunteer, will be glad to educate you further. (Please, folks, give 388 the guy a chance. Now that it's been EXPLAINED... 389 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 390 -----------------------------------(<>)----------------------------------------- 391 I had jumped through the gate that the assasins had come through just in 392 time. Now I found myself in a bleak and desolate land, just dwarf trees and 393 rock as far as I could see in the low hills sorrounding me. There appeared 394 to be a large stone structure down in the valley below, looks as good as 395 any destination, hopefully somthing could be found down there to explain 396 things, now for a quick obscurement spell... 397 --------------------------(<>)The Traveller(<>)--------------------------------- 398 Quizmaster: Here's one for you- following are 6 groups of letters and/or numbers 399 the groups may or may not be complete & more groups may be possible (yech! what 400 a disclaimer... oh well) 401 The question? How are the groups determined? 402 1 403 7 404 4 C F 405 2 3 b d E 406 0 6 A 407 8 408 Have fun! 409 ____________________________________Leonard_____________________________________ 410 MIG: That sounds like a wonderful idea! Be careful, just think what it would be 411 like if you SUCEEDED! 412 As for the phone man... 413 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 414 Whisper: I do believe that he hath a liking for thee! As for the orcs, I shall 415 allow Green Eyes to "pace" our bearers. I believe that that should suffice. 416 Wilt thou grace us with thy presence Saturday at the Library? I await thy 417 reply. 418 Thy servant, 419 ....................................the apprentice.............................. 420 && && && 421 QUIZMASTER: you misspelled "grammar". ...and yes, I know that I used an "it's" when I needed an "its". Sorry. 422 && && && 423 Gaius lolled in his bath and thought. The backwater crowd was heading back to the Inn. They were such tourists, 424 always dashing about aimlessly; but he was afraid that when they found out his plan to cut the inn off from all 425 the other realities they would find a common goal uncomfortably quickly. There must be some way to slow them down; 426 perhaps he should start killing them off. That wouldn't stop people as accostomed to multiple realities as the 427 Innhabitants, the religious would simply walk back from Heaven and the others would not be intimidated when they 428 found out that Hell was in Troutdale, Oregon. But at least it should delay them long enough for him to complete his 429 ultimate plan. Yes, he thought, I must start killing them as soon as I finish my bath. With that thought the 430 infamous Gaius gave his rubber duck a playful squeeze and slid beneath the bubbles. 431 && The Mad Actor && 432 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 433 O.K., what is "nxxyz"? Another UNIX wonder program, or just another 434 garbage file? Better list it and see what is. TYPE nxxyz< Nope that 435 didn`t work, guess "type" isn't the UNIX print command. That's 436 called "cat". So what does "type" do? It did something. Soo, drag out 437 the manual, shuffle,,but right next to TYPE, I found 438 TURBO, identified only as "encabulator". Curiosity overcame my good 439 sense, and I skipped TYPE to read TURBO. 440 441 ....................................................................... 442 CB-UNIX 443 Programmer's Manual 444 edition 2.1 445 446 Department 9473 447 Bell Laboratories, Inc. 448 449 ....................................................................... 450 TURBO ENCABULATOR (1) CB-UNIX 2.1 TURBO ENCABULATOR (1) 451 452 NAME 453 Turbo - Encabulator 454 455 DESCRIPTION 456 For a number of years now work has been proceeding in order to 457 bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would 458 not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase 459 detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing 460 cardinal grammeters. Such a machine is the "Turbo-Encabulator". Basically, 461 the only new priniple involved is that instead of power being generated 462 by the relaxive motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the 463 modial interaction of megneto-reluctance and capacitive directence. 464 465 The original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted 466 by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving 467 bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter 468 consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the 469 ambifacient lunar waneshaft that sides fumbling was effectively prevented. 470 The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in 471 panendermic semiboloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor 472 being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential 473 girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters. 474 475 Forty-one manestically spaced grouting brushes were arranged to feed into 476 the rotor slip-stream a mixture of high S-valve phenyhydrobenzamine and 477 five per cent reminative tetryliodohexamine. Both of these liquids have 478 specific pericosities given by P-2.5Cn where n is the diathetical evolute 479 of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is the Cholmondeley's 480 anular grillage coefficient. initially, n was measured with the aid of 481 a metapolar refractive pilfrometer (for a description of this ingenious 482 instrument, see L. E. Rumpelverstein in "Zeitschrift fur Electrotech- 483 nistiatischs-Donnerblitze",vol vii.), but up to the present date 484 nothing has been found to equal the transcendental hopper dadoscope 485 (see "Prological Sciences", June 1914). 486 487 Electrical engineers will appreciate the difficulty of nubing together 488 a regurgitative purwell and a supramitive wennelsprocket. Indeed, this 489 proved to be a stumbling block to further development until, in 1942, 490 it was found that the use of anhydrous nagling pins enabled a 491 kryptonastic boiling shim to be tankered. 492 493 The early sttempts to construct a sufficiently robust spiral decommutator 494 failed largely because of a lack of appreciation of the large quasi- 495 piestic stress in the gremlin studs; the latter were specially designed 496 to hold the roffit bars to the spamshaft. When, however, it was discovered 497 that wending could be prevented by a simple addition to the living 498 sockets almost perfect running was secured. 499 500 The operating point is maintained as near as possible to the h.f. rem 501 peak by constantly fromaging the bitumogenous spandrels. This is a 502 distinct advance on the standard nivelsheave in that no dramcock oil 503 is required after the phase detractors have remissed. 504 505 Undoubtedly, the turbo-encabulator has now reached a very high level 506 of technical development. It has been successfully used for 507 operating nofer trunnions. In addition whenever a barescent skor 508 motion is required, it may be employed in conjunction with the drawn 509 reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration. 510 511 DIAGNOSTICS 512 All diagnostics are printed on file descriptor 2. 513 BUGS 514 The living sprockets can sometimes react unfavorably with 515 the hydrocoptic marzelvanes to produce a high level of radiation. 516 This should not be considered a problem thaough. 517 518 page 1 November 1979 519 520 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 521 Egad, Edlin is awful!!!!!! Never again will I curse ED1. 522 No wonder there are so many editors for the PC, anything is better 523 than !@#$$%^&(unprintable....) Edlin. 524 ////////////////////////////BAD\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 525 $*#@)%*)%*$)*^%)!#*^)#$*^)%*^&)@*#$&^)*&)!@*%$&)!*)$%*^&)&)@*$%&)*$)&*$@)&*@$) 526 Voyeur: Bring the docs! I will be there. It is not so much that I have made 527 up with my Fortran, it's that I can't stand its sight for too many hours 528 without a break in between. That break will come on Saturday between 1 and 4. 529 So be it... 530 Quizmaster: Here is another in a series of special Star Trek Questions... It's 531 a two-parter, so read carefully...Name all the episodes where Capt. Kirk got 532 laid. There are several, and in some shows, it happened more than once. The 533 second part is a little tougher...What are the names of all the women who 534 were on the receiving end of all this attention. And as a special bonus 535 question...Which episode found kirk the proud father to be? Now isn't this 536 better than questions about starships? I hope this isn't risque...We are 537 all adults...well most of us anyway... 538 BARD: My car comes equipped with all the necessary electrical outlets you 539 could possibly want. Would a nitrous oxide system be any help? 540 BAD: Sure edlin has its problems, but it ALWAYS works, is small, is free, is 541 fast, and doesn't have a lot of useless commands... (I must admit I use 542 other editors too, but I always keep a copy of edlin around) 543 Did you leave the unix message? Very good, except for a couple of notes. Most 544 MANuals I have seen are not double spaced, or is it due to my 80 column screen? 545 Also, you (or whoever) forgot the SEE ALSO section that comes equipped in 546 all UNIX literature. But I did enjoy it very much! Good job! 547 *)%$*#%)$ 548 On to the adventure... 549 Glad to have you abord BARD...Let's go voyeur...Can you get Lord Corwin to 550 get my car going? Is he a real mechanic, or just someone who works out of 551 his garage at home? 552 And on the subject of getting back to this 'inn' you seem to be talking 553 about...where is it? Is it near Civic Stadium? Or is it closer to the 554 river? And why would someone bring us all here, just to have us try to 555 get back? It seems like an awful lot of effort for nothing? Amber seems 556 like a nice place to visit, and as long as BARD can get me to Tek in time, 557 I was hoping we were going to stay here awhile before we had to return. 558 I guess that is life eh? 559 *$)#*@$)@*$ L'homme sans parity - C'est la vie! *$#@*$)@*$#)@*$#@)$*#@)$*#@)$* 560 PS to MIG : Any idea when the Nerd will be up. I never got a chance to use 561 my new password. 562 PPS to Voyeur : Fuzzy picture??? C'est impossible! It looked fine when we 563 looked it over on the studio monitors. It must be the cable, or your TV... 564 Sorry it did't look so good. Fuzzy letters on such a show do not make for 565 good ratings (haha)... 566 *$)#@*$)@#*$ L'homme sans parity - encore *$%)#@*%@)#*%#)$@*%)#@$*%^#)$*^#)$*^ 567 OK GUYS YOU WIN I'M LEAVEING 568 HPHANTOM WRITTER IS NO MORE!!! 569 HE KILLS HIMSELF!!!!! 570 571 ONCE AGAIN LASETER LOOKED THROUGH THE KALEIDASCOPE, "HMMMMM, THERE SEEMS TO 572 BE A DISTURBANCE IN THE GORMATH SECTOR! THIS COULD DEFINITELY CAUSE THE 573 TRANS-REALITY OFFICE SOME PROBLEMS. I'D BEST PUT IN CALL FOR SOME HELP FROM 574 THE OUTSIDE" ALL THE WHILE A TINY, INSIGNIFICANT LOOKING GRIMNALESE FLYING 575 CATCCHERCAN HAD BEEN LOOKING AND LISTENING WITH GREAT INTENT, NOW IT SPREAD 576 IT'S FRAGILE LOOKING WINGS AND SPED WITH HASTE TO IT'S MASTER. SOON MORE 577 THAN THE TRANS-REALITY OFFICE WOULD BE HAVING PROBLEMS. THE CATCHERCAN HAD 578 579 QUIZMASTER;THANK YOU FOR THE HELP WITH BACKWATER'S ETTIQUETTE .HMM,AS LONG AS I FINALLY FOUND AN ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE MANUAL FO 580 THE 6809E AND WITH ALL THIS WORK ON TERMINAL PROGRAMS MAYBE SOON I CAN RID MYSELF OF THE LOWER CASE PROBLEM.AS IT STANDS THERE 581 ARE ONLY TWO TERMINAL PACKAGES THAT I KNOW OF FOR MY COMPUTER THAT FEATURE UUPPER/LOWER CASE AND I REALLY DONT THINK THAT I 582 WILL GET EITHER OF THEM REAL SOO N IF AT ALL AND AT THIS STAGE I DONT REALLY THINK I WILL.BUT TH E IDEA OF DESIGNING A TERMINAL 583 THAT WILL ALLOW ME TO DO THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS I WAS ATTRAC TED TO ASSEMBLY IN THE FIRST PL ACE.AND AS FOR THE IDEA OF QUO 584 TE UNQUOTE TOYS DOESNT THE COMMO DORE HAVE UPPER/LOWER CASE.AND I THINK THAT THIS MEASLY SYSTEM THAT I HAVE HERE BEATS A COMMOD 585 ORE ANYWAY.HORRID LITTLE THINGS ARENT THEY. 586 AS FOR THE LATEST TREK QUESTIO NS.THE SECOND ONE IS EASY;PARAD ISE SYNDROME.I WILL NEED A WHIL E TO CHECK THROUGH ALL THOSE 587 TIMES THAT KIRK DISPLAYED HIS SE CONDARY KIRK CHARACTERISTIC.SEC ONDARY THAT IS TO DESTROYING LO GICAL THINGS WITH ILLOGIC.AND 588 JUST IN CASE THE SECONDARY KIRK CHARACTERISTIC IS ROUTINE FEMALE SEDUCTION.JUST IN CASE ANY IMAG INATIONS WERE RUNNING WILD AS 589 THEY SAY. 590 I GUESS TIME AND SPACE CONSTRA IN ME TO MUCH AT THE MOMENT SO UNTILL THE NEXT DISK,GOOD DAY. 591 SIGNED, 592 HAWTHORNE 593 POST SCRIPTUS;I REALLY DIDNT MEAN TO ALLIENATE ANYONE.SORRY THAT I DID. 594 ====================================================================== 595 For those that care--tomorrow, Saturday, May 19 1984, the biweekly 596 PorSFiS meeting takes place at the downtown (Portland) Multnomah County Library. 597 It starts at 2:00 PM, and runs until around 3:30, at which time the 598 Friends of the Doctor (Who) group meets. At 3:30 several of the PorSFiS 599 members move to the PC&S tavern, 2 blocks North and 1 block West. Several Backwater participants also attend the PorSFiS 600 meeting, and then move on to the PC&S tavern. From there there may be 601 further groupings. Attending are commonly apprentice, Bard, voyeur, L'homme, MiG, &TMA&, sometimes Piper, Fast Freddie, Travel 602 /Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z 603 BAD: I have another suggestion for an edlin replacement.... for the quick jobs. 604 just type in 'copy con: a:filename.typ' to copy frrom console to a file, the 605 colon at the end of con(:) may or may not be the correct syntax. To end the 606 entering proccess, just hit a ctrl-Z and a return to save the file ctrl-C 607 to abort.: you can also copy to and from the printer ('prn:'):eg. 608 'copy con: prn:' --> copy from console to printer. 609 'copy a:filename.typ prn:' --> output ffile to printer. 610 These are only best for the small jobs, autoexec.bat, and any other short file 611 or maybe a long one for messages to be dumped on a BBS. 612 type ya later... 613 /Z/z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/ XENON /Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z 614 P.S.: The reason that I believe this is more profitable is that you do not 615 need to have a disk with the correct editor file in your drive to start 616 editing files.. 617 /Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/ XENON /Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z 618 LETS SEE IF ANYONE FINDS THIS MESSAGE,IF SO LEAVE A COMMENT TO 'DUNT'. -- DUNT(HAWTHORN E) >