íEíCfÃ       Initializing Media      place on a medium to another on the same medium, will possibly be interesting and useful.For those readers who have not yet reached that point in time, let me briefly go over the block/byte relationship. Each block or standard ADAM division on a storage medium is allocated 1024 bytes, or 1 kilobyte. This represents the same number of characters if the data is in the form of text. Or numbers if the data is in binary form or in hexadecimal form. Your ADAM datapack can store some 256 of these blocks and the ANN-DEC    Uªÿ BOOT       DIRECTORY  ØFILEMGR5A FILEMGR6A GLEAN-5A  GLEAN-6A  /€MERIDIANA >RAMBLINGA N$$$$$$$$$$$]THECARDA  `

WENCSL.ADMHjÃLISTEN.ADMHl9KINGS.ADMHoMADESTE.ADMHq5KLARNY.ADMHtƒRDLPH.ADMHwñWS-GLO.ADMHyñSlides.DEFA}¡WENCSL.ADMH~from boot up once again.                   FILEMANAGER V 3.0                Copyright AJM Software                 I - File Functions                II - Media Functions               III - Change Default Setup                IV - Use All Expansion Ram             Source:                 V - Disc Drive 1                Maximum buffer size :   94kYou'll likely recognize that I'm using Midge's ADAM for this exercise. And composing the text on mine. Wouldn't it be great if we could use both EOÌ1 ×59         FILEMANAGER VERSION 3.0: CHAPTER FOUR.                    BY DAVID COBLEY.In the preceding chapter we started discussing the Media Functions of Filemanager, by explaining Krunch.  In this chapter we will continue discussing Media Functions. Our first subject will be Copy Blocks.For those readers that have already plumbed the depths of data storage blocks in a data file or on a medium, the idea of being able to copy selected blocks from one medium to another, or alternatively from one product of the ADAM disc drives we can use vary from the original 160(kilobyte) format, through 320k and 720k, to 1.44m.  That's 1440 kilobytes.  So, each of these kilobytes represent a block of storage space.Sometimes, in programming for example, it is helpful to be able to reproduce certain parts of existing files to use as part of a new file or to replace corrupted or incorrect portions of other files. Block Copy lets you do that.Let's reproduce the initial Filemanager screen so that we are starting ÃJINGLE.ADMH€UJOY.ADMH0Hƒ1READMEa    †\ANN-12.LLBŠ

WREADMEAEFT”ÞBLOCKS LEFT˜{S and TDOS on the same machine and just switch back and forth without us losing our place? Save me trundling Midge's computer station into my computer room from the Family room.Now!. Let's select Media functions by pressing Smartkey II:Here's the new screen:                   FILEMANAGER V 3.0                Copyright AJM Software             MEDIA FUNCTIONS                 I - Backup                II - Krunch               III - Copy Block(s)                IV - Edit Block                 Vntion grabbing, without doubt.There's not much more to the Copy Block(s) function of Filemanager than that. I'll make no attempt to educate on the W5's of the need for Block Copying. When you need it, you'll realize it's value and flexibility and use it as is necessary.Let's now proceed with Edit Blocks. That's far more interesting and complex.To reach the Edit Block function simply press Smartket IV from the Media Functions screen I've shown above.You will see the following:                   FIL             IV - Disk Drive 1               sIV - Double-Sided                 V - Start Block:                     0                VI - With Media Swap              Press RETURN to Copy                    ESCAPE to ExitNotice that I've selected the same source as target. You can select either "With Media Swap", or "Without Media Swap", simply by pressing Smartkey VI. This applies only to the situation where the source and target are the same. Otherwise Filemanager does not screen the option. Mak    FILEMANAGER V 3.0                Copyright AJM Software              Block #:   0   Sector #:  0             Byte:   0:000h/Blk   0:00h/Sec              F3180D46494C454D    s..FILEM              414E020300011000    AN......              3158FE78321B743E    1X~x2.t>              03D37F3A62FDCBAF    .S.:b}K/              4F0601CD20FD2100    O..M }!.              0011FF3FAFCD26FD    ...?/M&}              CD851FCD7F1FDD21    M..M..]!              DAC9CDB5C8DD21FD    ZIM5H]!}              C8CDBers, far beyond the range of blocks available on the medium, and Filemanager will accept those incorrect numbers. But only up to a point. As soon as you try to commence the action, by a press of your RETURN key, (see the bottom of the screen) Filemanager will beep loudly, and flash a red warning in the upper and lower borders of the screen with a message like: "SOURCE BLOCK ERROR  Check Start, Number of Blocks or Drive Specifications".  Sorry!  I can't reproduce the effect here.  It's very dramatic and atte - Format Media                VI - Initialize Media               Press ESCAPE to Exit.Obviously, to select Copy Blocks we press Smartkey III. Clear?Here's what comes up:                   FILEMANAGER V 3.0                Copyright AJM Software             COPY BLOCK(S)             Source:                 I - Disk Drive 1                sI - Double-Sided                II - Start Block:                     0               III - Number of Blocks                 0             Target:   EMANAGER V 3.0                Copyright AJM Software             EDIT BLOCK                 I - Disk Drive 1                II - Double-Sided               III - Block Number                     0              Press RETURN to Edit                    ESCAPE to ExitThis is the default screen and if you want to examine the contents of Block 0 (zero), the Boot Block, now's you chance. Pressing RETURN will create a "read" of the medium by Filemanager and produce a screen like this:               es sense when you think about it!.Just in case you've forgotten, or never even knew, the addition of the lowwr case "s" in front of the Smartkey number, simply denotes press Shift + Smartkey. OK?Once you have decided which blocks from the source you want to copy, a pressure on Smartkey II will clear the default setting and allow entry of your desired block number simply by you typing in the number (in decimal) and pressing your RETURN key. You can, if you so desire, enter all kinds of inappropriate numb5C82117C911    HM5H!.I.              040246234E23CD0B    ..F#N#M.              082191C9CDE7C801    .!>IMgH.              C001CD20FD017F01    &.M }...              03C8CDC0FCC2E7FC    .HM@|Bg|              32F6CACD86C8C2E7    2vJM^HBg              FC3AF6CACDC3FCC2    |:vJMC|B              ^              Press ESCAPE When DoneNow! That lot represents Sector 0 of Block 0 of my copy of Filemanager. Notice the up-arrow shown on my version of this scren as an "^". On the real Filemanager screen this is possible to recreate the correct presentation, by judicious use of a block editor in TDOS, such as SPZ or SuperZap, it wouldn't be worth the effort, in my view. So I've represented them as near as I can without going to those lengths.Let's look at that first line in ASCII:1.  F3 is 243 decimal, above 127 (80) and should be an     inverse lower case "s". 2.  18 is 24 decimal and represents the key combination     Control-R which is significant to the program boot     block. There is no ASCII characte    0.     Sector #:  0.As I said, that's Sector 0 (zero) of Block 0 (zero), in decimal form.Each block of data (1 kilobyte) is divided into eight sectors of 128 bytes each. 8 x 128 = 1024 bytes or 1k (kilobyte). You can only view one sector at a time.The next line:     Byte:   0.000h/Blk   0.00h/SecShows the location of the red arrow pointer as it is placed below a particular byte, in both decimal and hexadecimal form. And as reference to the block as a whole and the sector. See /blk for the byte for you to view.Now, having established what it is we're looking at, let's see what it is we can do with them.Firstly we must be able to not only read each byte, but we must be able to edit it if the program is to be of real significance.Many of you will have seen, in previous issues of this journal, a listing of a "fix" or a "patch" for various and sundry programs, in order to overcome an error in a program, or to modify it in some way. Perhaps so it will "run" from a different medium. The ADVISA inrmine if text is involved. But with Filemanager there's no need to do that because it shows the ASCII equivalents in the second column on the right.I should point out that where a number in column 1 is over 127 in decimal, (80 in hexadecimal), the computer cannot necessarily reproduce the character onscreen because it is not in its vocabulary. Normally characters with numerical values over 127 (80 Hex) are displayed in inverse video. But I can't readily copy that in my word processor, though it is readily a red right-angle triangle pointing upwards as an arrow. I've shown it below the first character on the last line of the presentation, for clarity's sake, but it actually appears on the Filemanager screen below the first character on the top line of the screen. That is to say below the letter F on the first line. OK?Let's talk a bit about what is beig presented, and what it represents. Starting at the top, immediately below the familiar Filemanager header. On the first line you will read;-     Block #:r equivalent. 3.  0D is 13 decimal and represents Control-M. Also     there is no ASCII equivalent character. 4.  46 is 70 decimal and is the ASCII code for "F". 5.  49 is 73 decimal and is the ASCII code for "I". 6.  4C is 76 decimal and is the ASCII code for "L". 7.  45 is 69 decimal and is the ASCII code for "E". 8.  4D is 77 decimal and is the ASCII code for "M". And so on down the screen.So, if you look at the right hand column, you will see those characters that can be represented in ASCII, set out location within the block under review and within the sector on display in the /Sec section. Remember, these are in the hexadecimal format and each byte has two (2) numbers as part of it's identity. Even if the first number is a 0. OK? so far?.So the first line reads F3180D46494C454D which is easier if we separate the numbers in pairs.              F3 18 0D 46 49 4C 45 4DFrom the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) we can decipher the characters individually so that we can detedex tells us that there was one for the Coleco SmartFiler program in the July/August issues in both 1991 and 1992.  Using the Edit Block feature of Filemanager, is one way to install the patches. There are others, but I prefer Filemanager.How do we set about doing that. It's easy!Simply move the red pointer arrow below the byte you wish to modify and type in the new characters. Try it! You will be quite safe to try it, especially if you're working with a copy of the medium you are playing about with. Whharacter, in any part of a block, you will be sent to the Save Changes mode as soon as you press ESCAPE.Remember your Filemanager Doc's. If you want to move between sectors it's Home + Up or Down Arrow. And if it is in blocks you wish to traverse, Control + Up or Down Arrows are your tools.Make yourselves a "play" copy of one of your favourite media and play with Filemanager. You'll come to love it as much as I do.More next time in what should be the final chapter.swer to the "Save Changes (Y/N)" will do that and you don't want that to be your fate, do you? My advice is to remove your medium from the drive, especially if it's a datapack which cannot be write- protected, while you modify each block and don't put it back unless you wish to go to another block or wish to write your mod's to the medium copy of the block. Of course, if you are using discs, you can write-protect the disc until you're sure you have the modifications correct.If by chance you are into changthose two final selections  under  Media  Functions,  Format  Media  and Initialize  Media.  On  that  same  page 14, I discussed Change  Default  Setup  and  Use  All  Expansion  RAM in sufficient  detail  that  there  should  be  no  need to further expound on those items.Let us first return to our Media Functions screen:                   FILEMANAGER V 3.0                Copyright AJM Software             MEDIA FUNCTIONS                 I - Backup                II - Krunch               III  clever thing you'll note about this Edit Block mode, is that it doesn't matter which side of the presentation you change, the other side is also immediately changed. Makes it easy to keep track of the changes you're making and acts as an additional check on what you've typed in.If you haven't made any changes in a block, Filemanager will not ESCAPE you into the "Save Changes (Y/N)" mode, so you don't need to worry about messing up your medium if you're only browsing through. But, if you change only one cich, of course, is what you should be using.Until you exit the Edit Block mode by pressing ESCAPE, and then instruct Filemanager to "Save the changes" it will not write the modifications to your medium and so the changes will not be made on the medium but only in the copy in memory. Clear?. I should warn you that it is possible to have Filemanager write the changes to the medium simply by pressing ESCAPE once too often when you attempt to escape from the Edit Block mode. Any other key but "N" or "n" in anÌ1 ×58         FILEMANAGER VERSION 3.0: CHAPTER FIVE.                    BY DAVID COBLEY.And so we come to the final chapter in this discourse on my favourite ADAM EOS  utility program. I hope that some of my readers have taken the  time to put a part of what I've written into practice. BDC.If you will take a  look  at  page 14 of the Jan/Feb '94 issue of our newsletter, you  will  see  that  I briefly described each of  the  Media  Functions of Filemanager. This article is intended to  expand  on  ing a text file block, such as would be necessary to insert those ASCII codes over 127 decimal I mentioned previously, it may be a lot  simpler to edit the block on the ASCII side of the table rather than the numerical side. But the pointer doesn't want to go over to that side when you move it with the arrow keys, does it? The answer is to press the Tab key. The pointer will jump to the other side and move about with arrow keys, as it did on the numerical side.  The same key makes it jump back too. OK?One- Copy Block(s)                IV - Edit Block                 V - Format Media                VI - Initialize Media               Press ESCAPE to Exit.We've dealt with  items  I  through IV, so let's discuss item V, Format Media. I looked  up the word Format in my Oxford  Encyclopaedic  Dictionary, and their definitions offered were:Format-(Computing) a defined  structure for holding data etc., in a record for processing or storage, and Formatting-(Computing)  preparing  (a storage medium) to re1,54) on my 286 DOS system while running Filemanager 3.0 on my ADAM. Once the article  is  completed, I will use my 22Disk to transfer it to an ADAM formatted  T-DOS disc, then write it to the ADAM hard drive for final processing using the latest CP/M version of VDE, VDE266.Back to Format. One thing  that Filemanager cannot do is to create the original format on a blank tape to make it into a datapack. It can reformat  the tape to thoroughly clean each block of storage space so that it is pristine for futbe able to read these MS-DOS  preformatted  discs,  without reformatting. But you must first  utilize the Initialize function of  Filemanager  to  create the necesssary Boot and Directory blocks your ADAM  needs  under EOS. If you want to use these  preformatted discs with T-DOS, you'll need to use your T-DOS program Format.Com with the Quick Format switch /Q on. This Initializes  a disc and writes the T-DOS system  and  directory blocks. So you can save wear and tear on your precious ADAM drives by buying ory data is occupied by  a  hexadecimal E5, it is empty. Any other number will cause T-DOS to assume that the byte is occupied and it will move along to the next byte that is occupied by an E5. I'm sure  that  Guy Cousineau or Tony Morehen could explain the significance of hexadecimal E5 to you, but I can't. My  MS-DOS formatting programs seem to use F6 instead of E5. Different  ship - different cap tally.I think it's about  time  we  got on with the subject at hand, don't you? We've talked all around Filll require you to have either 22Disk,  a  copyrighted Sydex product, or  IBM-ADAM  by  Chris Brayman which is PD, or The  ADAM  Connection  by  David  White,  a  copyrighted program by the author of Speedywrite.Because I frequently transfer  files between T-DOS on my ADAM and  MS-DOS,  I  have  all three programs on my DOS box. I find the Sydex product,  22Disk,  to  be the most convenient and reliable.As a point of interest,  I'm  writing this article using VDE154 (that's Video Display  Editor Version ceive data.Those of our readers that  are familiar with disc drives should have no problems understanding  formatting.  They have needed to format each  new disc they have used with the ADAM before they could read  from,  or write to them in their computers.  These  days most new discs that you buy are preformatted. Not for  the  ADAM, unfortunately, but for systems that use Microsoft's MS-DOS.Let me note here that your  ADAM, if it has a 320k DSDD, (that's Double Sided Double Density) disc drive, will ure use.When I first started into recycling some of my datapacks I used to utilize Filemanager to reformat them, but came to realize that it  served  no useful purpose. Under EOS your ADAM doesn't read the data  already in a byte, or a block, when writing to a medium, so it matters little if it isn't formatted with some appropriate number.T-DOS is a bit more  fussy  about the existing data in a byte but only in respect of directory blocks. It assumes that if the byte in which it  wishes  to write directDOS preformatted discs, or by doing  the initial format in a DOS compatible. Then just  add the initialization in the ADAM operating system you are using, and away you go.And it's also true for those  Coleco Finger Nail Breaker SSDD 160K drives, if  you  are satisfied to use one side only of the DSDD disc. Just initialize  it as a 160/145k disc with either Filemanager  or Format.Com. Even if you are using "flippies" you can  format each side on an old DOS box and then use  them  on your ADAM.  But that wiemanager but not come to grips with it. Typical. Ok! Here we go!Look at the screen we've reproduced  in the first column of this article. If we now press Smartkey V we'll screen something like this:                   FILEMANAGER V 3.0                Copyright AJM Software             FORMAT                 I - Coleco Disk Drive 1                II - Quad Density               III - With Verification               Press RETURN to Format                     ESCAPE to Exit.Pressing Smartkethat you use in your  quad density drive are still called DSDD and they will work  in  either  a  360k or a 720k 3.5" drive. Clear?Later the sizes were again increased to 1.2 megabyte for 5.25" drives and 1.44  megabytes for the 3.5". These are known as DSHD or High Density drives. I understand there are some 2.88 MB 3.5" drives on the market. I think they call these Super High-Density, but I'm not sure.The available selections for disc drive sizes under your Filemanager are Single-Sided, Double-Sided, ur selected drive  is  to be formatted with. In the case above, my #1 disc drive  is  a 3.5" 720k unit so my selection is known as Quad Density.Why quad? Well! The  way  I  see it is this. Originally, when disc drives first came  into  general use, an SSSD, Single Sided Single Density  diskette would only hold in the region of 80 kilobytes of data. As the technology of read/write head design and the  storage  media  coatings improved, this was  raised  to about 160k. Because these 160-180k drives had twicn you initialize a 128k  flippy  unless you modify the Boot, directory and Blocks Left figures afterwards. I know that's an extra chore - but it works.The only thing left to  discuss is whether you choose to Verify your formatted medium. If you are reformatting an older medium that has been previously  formatted at some earlier point in time, and may well be a medium that has seen much service, you may  want to Verify it just to be sure it is worthwhile keeping.  And  if  you are foolish enough to use el-ack on 5.25" discs for a 160k per side capacity)It wasn't long before  the  researchers found they could double that Double Density format on the 3.5" drives and the standard format became 720k. Since that's four times the original size, more or less,  this  came to be known as Quad Density, and for  simplicity and availability of parts, our ADAM guru's who modified  our original Coleco 160k drives to accept the  3.5" mechanism, chose to take the DOS sizes and formats as  being reasonable. The 3.5" discs y I  cycles  you through whatever drives your ADAM has. If you only have  tape drives then that's what it will offer as  your  choices. If you have one or more disc drives, it will add  those to your selections. If you have a hard  drive,  it won't add the Volumes you have partitioned your hard drive  into. I'm not sure how it does that, but it does and that's good enough for me. Making your selection is  easy so we don't need to dwell on that.Smartkey II selects the correct  designation your medium in yoQuad-Density and High-Density. Unfortunely  the  Tape Drive selection of Filemanager does not take  into account the fact that many ADAM users use flippy datapacks  to  hold two self- booting programs. One on each side. Which makes a 2x128k datapack. Filemanager only reformats the regular 256k CD or RD, that's Centre Directory as in standard datapacks, or Right Directory as in gamepacks.Which is really not too much of a hindrance to your uses of Filemanager since you  cannot actually format a tape, nor cae as  much  storage space as the original drives,  they  were  called Double Density. The original 3.5" micro-disc drives  had similar capacities. I have some 1983  Hewlett-Packard non IBM-compatible MS- DOS computers that have single-sided  3.5"  drives which format to 173k.Early versions of MS-DOS  used 8 sectors per track for a total of 160 - 512 byte blocks  per  side per disc. That was later changed  to  9  sectors per track and capacity increased to 180k per side.  (ADAM  still uses 8 sectors per trcheapo  offshore made bulk diskettes, I suggest it may be a good thing to do a verification too. But it has been my experience that unless you are trying to convert DSDD 3.5" discs  into  DSHD's  by  adding  an extra hole in the diskette case, it's extremely unlikely you'll find any BAD  Blocks  or other significant errors in modern diskette manufacturers' products. If, however, your data is of prime importance  to  you,  and you only intend to save one copy, then a little time spent during your formatting , even though FM realizes I have  a  hard drive installed, and will  allow  certain  functions to and from the hard drive volumes, it will not offer  me  them as the drives of record for either Format  or Initialize, because that would jeopardize the hard drive data unnecessarily.Smartkey IV let's you choose the size you wish to inform the system your medium represents. You may think this is not important, but under EOS the system accepts the size initialized on the medium and attempts to read and write tder T-DOS, but there was only a 2-3 second difference between the two, with EOS the shorter. Likely because T-DOS installs the System tracks as a default on your disc, unless told not to do so.From the Media  Functions  screen, if you press Smartkey VI your screen will look something like this:                   FILEMANAGER V 3.0                Copyright AJM Software             INITIALIZE MEDIA                 I - Volume: FIRST DIR                II - Directory Size: 3k               III - Colecmanager is an inexpensive  ADAM  utility that can do most of your housekeeping chores under EOS. It cannot be used to do very much with a  CP/M or T-DOS medium except to Read Blocks and Edit them  as you wish. It can Format a T-DOS medium, but if  you  want that medium to be able to boot T-DOS you will need to  install your own version of the system tracks afterwards.Try out  this  excellent  program and enjoy your ADAMing even more! Cheers.............. BDC. will be reserved for your directory. The range is from 1 to 8 blocks. We have discussed  the advantages of assigning adittional blocks to the directory of a medium before, so I won't dwell on it here. From a common-sense point of view, more is better. I use 3 blocks for my own media.Smartkey III let's you choose which drive to initialize. Once again, this is  an  intelligent selection item that Filemanager offers, based upon  the drives it determined your  system  has  connected  and operating. In my caseto Verify, will be an investment in your peace of mind. So - whether  or not you set Smartkey III to With Verification or With  No  Verification, is up to you. It does take  some  extra time. I tried out both of the options on each of my own  drives and here is what I found: Drive size    Format only         Format + Verification 3.5"  720k   01 mins 07 secs.       08 mins 06 secs 5.25" 320k   00 mins 34 secs        03 mins 06 secsJust to check, I tried the system out in formatting both drive sizes uno that size. So, if you tell Filemanager your medium is double-sided, when it is only  single-sided, it will try to read/write to blocks that don't exist. Conversely, if you do the reverse, ADAM  will not read from or write to blocks it believes are not there.As a point of interest, you  will  notice  that when you select the Tape Drive as the  default drive, Filemanager does not offer you a choice of  medium size. It assumes, as it did under  Format,  that the datapack is a double- sided, 256k one.Fileo Disk Drive 1                IV - Quad Density               Press RETURN to Initialize                     ESCAPE to Exit.Smartkey I will let you decide  what you wish the Volume Name to be when  you  format  a medium. First Dir is the original Coleco selection and  it is the default name in Filemanager. You can type in  any ten character name you wish. Even name each disc differently  if  that  is your desire. The choice is yours.Smartkey II gives you the  ability to determine how many blocks Ì1 ×59                       GLEANINGS.                    BY DAVID SANDS.Gleanngs is a column of information, rumour, quotation and opinion gathered from exchange newsletters, other miscellaneous sources and Fidonet correspondence. All sources are cited and interjections within quoted material are in square brackets. Readers who desire more information should contact their Editor. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Gleanings is written for the Vancouver Island Senior ADAMphiles newsletter ADV are cut and dried. To paraphrase an old saying, knowledge of the hardware is the beginning of wisdom." Kirk L. Thompson "Do It Yourself" The Z-Letter, May/June 94.Good To Know: " If you have Powerpaint (Sol Swift's ADAM drawing program) you can save your LOGO graphics and then load them up again in Powerpaint, where of course you can print to your heart's content." Ron Mitchell 'The LOGO Notebook' AUFG nl, May/June 94. Ron goes on to say that Powerpaint screens are smaller than LOGO's, so you need to keegram on one of the disks from that stack. To my utter amazement, there was absolutely NOTHING on that disk.  When I checked the rest of the disks in that stack, I found that everything had been completely erased from the disks that were under the telephone when it rang!" Faye Deere, 'Things I Thought You Might Like to Know' Emerald Coast Adam Users Group nl, July/Aug 94.Words we may yet have to live by: "Surviving in a world of Pentium processors and superduper Macs with an antiquated computer system takeuch a solo effort by Tom. But it is also 20 pages of thought-provoking and sometimes ground-breaking reading for the Gleaner and others. The following are some brief paragraphs from a variety of recent issues."A superb program that is hardly known at all is ADAM's 'SUPERCALC'. This really isn't educational software but a simplified version of ADAMCALC.  Sort of!  It is a spreadsheet program for beginners and and was promoted as home information management. There were segments devoted to automobile records to teach ourselves assembly language so that we can enhance our favorite operating system.So there are both joys and trials to sticking with historical hardware. I count myself lucky to have grown up (so to speak) with Heathkit's H-89 Z80 based system.  Assembling it from a kit was, in the long run, probably the most important thing I did with the computer. After that, interfacing peripherals (including adding floppy drives), programming, repairing, and all the other stuff I continue to do with the thingISA and distributed via ADAM News Network.The Gleaner must have had a great summer: it took him three tries to get TDOS and VDE loaded, and its been slow getting this far on the keyboard. Too damn much gardening. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Or, I'm stuck with  it."Early on in my life with ADAM, I set the telephone down on top of a stack of my floppy disks, when I finished my conversation.  Shortly thereafter, the phone rang again. When I had finished talking, I proceeded to try to use a prop your drawings small, or have a memory expander board installed.The ADAM system is capable of working with many computer languages other than its own SmartBASIC.  This is aptly demonstrated in the AUFG nl by an article from Ron's son Jeff, who programmed in PASCAL, and produced an article for dad's newsletter. Exotic languages for the ADAM are not usually in the public domain, but are available from our usual vendors, including A.D.A.M. Services.Tom Keene's Inland Empire ADAM Users Group nl is pretty ms some doing. Since support for the old systems is a lot further away than the computer store at the mall, the conditions are both necessary and sufficient for us to revert to ourselves for it. Instead of lugging the thing down to the store, we'll have to crack the cover ourselves to fix the power supply. Or we'll have to patch that commercial program so it works on our model. Or adapt the source code for a program we'd like, although we'd never set eyes on the source language before. Or (horrors!) even try, groceries, mortgage, utilities and medical expenses. I know of a number of commercial programs that ADAM users found which addressed some of these areas but this program is more general than any others I have seen. Even though it was copyrighted in 1984, it is almost completely unknown today.  That might well be due to its being overshadowed by ADAMCALC. SUPERCALC, however, was not a commerical success.  It was not aggressively marketed by Coleco. For those who find ADAMCALC too involved, you might find She deepest sorrow that we tell you that Mike died on 6 March 1994. There is no way to express our profound sense of loss.  Mike was an achiever, there is no doubt of that. When he was with us in the IEAUG, he and Paula were innovators of the nth degree."On the other hand, there's nobody better at taking a hat pin to the big balloons of the PC industry:"According to the Associated Press survey, the problem lies with the computer industry. (AMEN!) They point out that the industry has catered mainly to exp fonts and fourteen resident scalable fonts. Well, it all depends on what you mean by 'font'.  Now, on my LQ-510, I have instantly available three built-in fonts and seven added multi-fonts. Again, this depends on your definition of font. By the laser jet concept I have seventy five times the seven fonts I spoke of (or 525).  The reason is that if I use a particular 'font' in italics or upright that counts as two fonts. If I add 'bold' or 'standard' that mulitiplies the number by two more. If I count 10 chaef, MORE SPIN DOCTORS!  Why don't they stop and analyze the situation? They seem to understand the procedures of sales technology. Martin said that they must explain all the benefits of having a PC in the first place.  Then they have to provide the technology to do all those things. I suggest that they take a look at the old ADAM and talk to ADAM users to learn what a home computer should be designed for." [July 94. capitals in original]And one last short set from Tom Keene:"I would like to report a litigh, extra wide, bold and extra bold, condensed, etc etc. So those twenty fonts of the laser jet really boil down to three. OK so it's a big disappointment!  Maybe I'll be able to get some external, plug-in, cartridge fonts, but that remains to be seen." [July 94]Keene is a generous and thoughtful writer when he's dealing with friends.  This introduction to his eulogy for a deceased member is typical:"Michael D. Smith, with his wife Paula, founded the Inland Empire ADAM Users Group in 1985. It is with tUPERCALC just what you have been looking for. One thing in its favor is a well written set of instruction. Included with the package was an excellent set of 'hints, cautions and bewares.'" [March 94.  capitals in original]Tom has purchased a new laser printer: it was the next step up from his beloved Epson LQ-510 24-pin dot matrix printer, which could apparently walk on water. However, everything new is not all that it seems--or as it may be advertised: "For instance, they boast of having seven bit-mappederienced commercial users.  Individuals were written off as 'dead- end' users, a term technicians used for the painfully obvious questions novices could pose. But with the saturation point in the corporate market staring them in the face, manufacturers have no other market to turn to but the consumer. Rick Martin, director of product marketing for COMPAQ Computer Corp., admits that the PC industry has historically ignored the consumer. Now they realize that they must tell their story to the people. Good griracters/inch, 12 characters/inch and 15 characters/inch then multiplies all of the above by three. Extra wide versus regular doubles the total; extra high doubles it again. And then I have condensed versus standard,---get the drift?  Boy!  I sure don't think of an italic version of a 'font' as being a separate font. I finally learned that what I considered to be a 'font' is what they call a 'typeface'. Tricky!  I have seven typefaces in my LQ-510 with all of those variations such as italic, upright, extra htle fact that might be interesting. The ADAM that I am using at this very moment, as well as the disk drives connected to it, have been in continuous operation for over three years.  They have not been disconnected nor turned off in all that time. That strikes me as being a tribute to the reliabliity of the ADAM and its great disc drives.  I am also reminded of a challenge that I threw down back in the March 1992 newsletter, where I reported what I believed to be the longest running program on an ADAM.  Thir own problems or gain knowledge by dissassembling programs. Recommended reading for those who would like to understand more.Swift, a man of many other names, (one of which may have been R.W. Peck, according to hints from Barry Wilson), really deserves a biographical article devoted to him and his work. For the benefit of recent members and readers, 'Solomon Swift' and his financial and personal peculiarities was one of the 'cause celebre' of the ADAM world in the late 80's. Is it too soon to forgive and ynch, Ron Collins and Patricia Herrington about hardware problems caused by excessive cable length.Ron Collins said that there doesn't seem to be a problem with keyboard or disk drive cable length. The problems seem to be with cables that directly address the bus and/or Z80. The two prime ones are the side port 60 conductor ribbon cable and the cable used to connect a hard disk.Ron gave an explanation as to why problems may accur if too long a cable is used. Basically it boils down to this. We're dealinUndid. Now I have to find the VDE docs and search out the 'real' way to correct that kind of error. Or is that it? Strangly enough, Tom Keene, of mention above, was ruminating at length in a recent issue that we often don't know or use all the features of our programs and that greater familiarity with the manual always helps. RYFM, incidentally, stands for Read Your Fine Manual.  Something that should be IOTTMCO,  (Intuitively Obvious To The Most Casual Observer) an acronym I found in The Cuckoo's Egg, a fiall cables should be kept as short as possible." Jerry Vrancks, 'Tricks -Tips & Fixes' 463 ADAM nl, July 94.And Jerry's nl is one of the many which are carrying Bob Sebelist's series on graphics. Sebelist, who uses Filemanager like a spelunker uses a flashlight, delves into the programming habits of that strange and wonderful creature Sol Swift. His outline of how he finds where Swift puts things like his Boot blocks in various programs is also an excellent primer on using Filemanager to solve some of yous program was one that was computing the value of PI and it ran for 98 hours and 59 minutes, non-stop. It wasn't that the ADAM was particulary slow in making computations---it was just that the computation was inordinately long and complicated. But that ADAM ran continuously, day and night for over four days solving that equation!  (IEAUG, Aug 94)Here's a piece from the 463 ADAM nl of July 94 that may solve someone's problems:"On CIS [CompuServe] recently there was an exchange of messages between Bart Lforget? Maybe Barry could produce something that would define the man and the moment, as TV likes to say.Did I just discover something or have I been guilty of not RYFMing? What happened was the usual Gleaner quick fingers, slow brain problem, and instead of moving the cursor, old nimble digits suddenly got VDE (my word processor program) set up to load another file. I did not, as in did not, want to do that. Stuck for something to do to extricate myself, I flung a fingerprint upon the 'Undo" key. And it g with electronics, and electronics don't like wire resistance.Through his experience and that of others, Ron makes the following recommendations on these two cable lengths.* Side port 60 conductor ribbon cable: never exceed 14 inches; 10 -11 is best.* Hard drive ribbon cable; six inches is about the max you should use.If you're having problems with hardware connected to the CPU with robbon cable you may want to try shortening its length. No guarantees but it may be worth a try.  I personally think ne, true story of 1980's computer network security and spying, that is probably even more relevant today, with the growth of networking.And its always nice to know you're doing good stuff.  Dave Cobley wrote a fine article on Filemanager for the ADVISA that has been used in many other nl's--United Kingdom ADAM Subscribers, Puget Sound ADAM Network, etc-- and faithful old Bart Lynch responded via Fidonet. (Correction; he's maybe not too old) The day the nl with the article arrived, Bart says, he had to hly winds up spending hundreds to put things right.A vacuum of any kind, especially one with a brush attachment at the end, is one of the best generators and transporters of static electricity.  When a vacuum is running, especially an old one, it generates a good static charge that can dissipate right where you don't want it--in a chip.Never, under any circumstances, use a vacuum on the inside components of your CPU [Central Processing Unit] even the tiny ones sold 'for computers.' Always use compressed  info. it may come in handy some day. a terrific article. thanks for taking the time to write it." You too can say nice things to your local ADAM nl editors and if you're really happy, what the heck, even use some capital letters.Maybe someday we'll know the answers to these mysteries; the smile on the face of the Sphinx, whether or not Napoleon was murdered, and just what they did at the Metro Toronto ADAM Group Mini-con. What the Gleaner can tell you is that the MTAG Express newsletter contains a reprodough on we who dish it out, too.ADAM's House often tells me more about the state of the ADAM world in its ad's than it does in Terry Fowler's (Mr.  ADAM's House), fine nl, the ADAM International Media.  For example, the same PSAN nl that advises us to eschew, if not abhor, vacuums, also carries an ad from Pearland offering ADAM computer systems--the basic set we all bought, but less printer or power supply, for $99.95. The printer is available for another mere-- $99.95! Or a power supply for $49.95. Think However, a hesitant, modest word of advice for the group in the Big TO: Other computers can be used to produce ADAM newsletters-- ADAMs, for instance.Nature, we are told, abhors a vacuum.  So apparently, does electronics. That's the message I get from this little piece that the Aug 94 Puget Sound ADAM Newsnet found in the CompuServe Magazine;"I don't know how many times in my 20-year career a customer has called me after vacuuming his computer to report fried memory chips or strange behavior.  He usualelp out a new Filemanager owner. He goes on to add:"yes fm [Filemanager] can now copy smartbasic, but it still won't do one any good unless you copy over block 0 as well so that it can boot! best way to copy smartbasic onto another media is to use a block copy and start from block 0 (now watch...guy [Cousineau] will come in and correct me!) and i did NOT know that fm would do a BACKUP of a tdos media. i knew you could block copy a tdos media but didn't know backup would work on it. thanks for sharing thatair to blow dust away from all internal components. Bruce Landry, Hollis, New Hampshire."But, the Gleaner asks himself, didn't I run an item some time ago about using a vacuum cleaner to clean out your ADAM.  Wasn't it written by a well-known ADAMite, and didn't it recommend using a narrow tube tip of some kind to get right down into your ADAM? If so, how many ADAMs did I assist into the Silicon Valley of Death? Any? The advice business is full of mental anguish, and not just for those who take it, it's tuction of a handwritten note from editor Neil Wick saying his Amiga computer is down and therefore no reports, except that the Minicon was a great success, with an attendance of 30, and that the words on the cover (MTAG Toronto Mini-con) are 'the first Postscript type ever printed by an ADAM.' The nl also contains some pictures, including one of Our Leader, taken at the ADAMCon 05 convention. All these guys look like the fellows we used to see on the Post Office walls. Maybe it was the Salt Lake City water. on this for a moment.  We are now at the stage where one of the slowest, most reviled, criticized, belabored printers computing ever saw, is worth exactly as much as the entire computer and accessories it was built to serve.  There's something cosmic in the sudden ascendance of the Great Klunker to eqivalence with the one and only ADAM.Or maybe it just means the world is running short of ADAM printers. Have you hugged yours today?More nostalgia: the world wasn't simpler when we were younger, it was jus are cut and dried. To paraphrase an old saying, knowledge of the hardware is the beginning of wisdom." Kirk L. Thompson "Do It Yourself" The Z-Letter, May/June 94.Good To Know: " If you have Powerpaint (Sol Swift's ADAM drawing program) you can save your LOGO graphics and then load them up again in Powerpaint, where of course you can print to your heart's content." Ron Mitchell 'The LOGO Notebook' AUFG nl, May/June 94. Ron goes on to say that Powerpaint screens are smaller than LOGO's, so you need to kee it have inside, how much RAM, what size hard disk, etc., or whch model MacIntosh you have, with what options. Before the PC busted the market, however, there were thousands of kinds of computers. CP/M computers alone are represented by hundreds of different makes and models, thousands of different software packages and books, hundreds of user groups with newsletters and dozens of magazines." David McGlone 'Computer Classics' The Z-Letter, July/Aug 94.By the time you read this, the baseball season and ADAsland Senior ADAMphiles newsletter ADVISA and distributed via ADAM News Network."The moving finger writes, and  having  writ,  moves on; And nor all your  piety  or  wit can move it to cancel a line, or change a word of it."That, at least,is about how  I  remember  something from Khalil Ghibran, a  stanza  that used to appear above the obituaries in a trade magazine.  This  is,  as you don't need to be told, the  last  Gleanings column in the last issue of the ADVISA, newsletter  of the Vancouver Islandays: "Now, if you can find an XT or an AT or a 386, or yes...even a 486, the claim is that you can access the media storage resources, the hard drive, the floppies or whatever is installed from your ADAM, while at the same time retaining the ADAM 'look and feel' that you've grown accustomed to."Last Word Dept. From the Aug 94 463 ADAM nl: "To Err is Human, and To Blame It on a Computer Is Even More So."t as complicated as it is today, we could just handle it better then. And the little old ADAM we own is an example of that. Here is an excerpt that says it better, or at least, differently;"Interest aside, few people realize just how diverse the computer industry used to be, and how many companies made machines that might have been called computers, all incompatible with each other in some way or other. These days it's pretty much which clone do you have from which company, and which of Intel's chips doesÌ1 ×59                       GLEANINGS.                    BY DAVID SANDS.Gleanings is a column of  information, rumour, quotation and opinion gathered from exchange  newsletters, Fidonet correspondence and other  miscellaneous sources. All the sources are cited, and the author's interjections within quoted material are in square brackets. Readers desiring more information should contact their newsletter Editor. Opinions expressed are those  of  the author.  Gleanings is written  for  the  Vancouver IMCon 06 will be history.  Some interesting things are predicted to be coming from ADAMCon, however. Bob Blair, of the South Florida ADAM User Group and one of the organizers, says ADAMCon will see the debut of a great new Chess game program for the ADAM, and Ron Mitchell, of the ADAM User-Friedly Group of Ottawa, says that the ADAM-IBM connection has been perfected and that we'll be able to use ADAMs as our computers, but IBM's (read clone machines of any make running MS-DOS) for their memory systems. Ron s Senior ADAMphiles.I have enjoyed being part of  the ADVISA, and even more, working with David Cobley, whose  untiring  efforts  and high standards have been an example for me and I am sure for everyone else in the world of ADAM.Gleanings will carry on,  at  least for another year, as an ADAM News Network column due to the enthusiasm of Ron Mitchell of Ottawa, the new ANN  co-ordinator. I believe Ron will bring a load of  ability and interest to to the job, and that he'll need it all. So will the ANN aname) I never got back on the scoreboard.  And  a  12-year-old son of neighbours blew  us  both off the screen. Who was it said 'youth is wasted on the young.'?For the record; congratulations  to Richard Clee, a VISA subscriber from far-off  Toronto, who is now a member of the ADAM Gallery of Honour. And  also to other electees, who's  names  you've  seen  here  over the years: George Koczwara, James  Poulin,  Robert Sebelist, Thomas Keene, Herman Mason,  Darryl  Sage,  Jerry  Vrancks  and  Bruce Walters.ou read all sorts of interesting  things  when you plow through the  endless  PC  and  Windows and Apple and IBM stuff in the newspapers. Example follows:"TOKYO -- Don't throw your  old  video  games  out  when you're bored with them  --  in 25 years they could be as valuable as vintage black  and  white  movies  and  rare music recordings.  At  least  that's  what  Nintendo  of America chair, Howard Lincoln insists.'As we look back 25 years from  now  today's  games will look like black and white movies  to say, feels wronged in the matter.  It  has been a long, dragged out and distasteful correspondence  string  and  the Gleaner commiserated with the gentlemanly James Young, moderator of the ADAM echo, who had to play the role of Solomon in this case."When you are NOT going to use your computer for a while (or if you go out), shut it  down and unplug it.  If you are using it and you hear thunder, PULL the plug.Better SAFE than SORRY!" Emerald  Coast ADAM Users Group nl,  Sept  94.(capitals  in  origm, and for  sure, if I ever see one at a garage sale I'll tell the seller  he's got a potential Chippendale there.From Don Woolston's meeting  notes column in the Nov '94 463 AUG nl; a survey of what members do with their ADAMs;"Don W - WP and games for his  grandchildren this summer who dearly loved them. (Why is it that after only a game or two, 6 year old David  could score higher points than Grampa ?) Oh well. " You think  you have problems; after I showed Audrie how to play  Addictus (ADAM Tetris gd the ADAM. But Ron's a bright guy--he  asked me to keep doing Gleanings,  didn't  he?--and  the right man for the job. It's no secret that the "band  of brothers" (that's from Shakespeare, right?)  is  getting smaller, and there are fewer and fewer of us to go into  the breach.  But, some day, around the campfires, men will tell such tales...There's something about transition that requires poetry. It won't do to get  depressed, although God Knows I have enough experience and more with that.  Onward!YAnd the Honoured Bob Sebelist  continues  his productive ways with a useful article,  complete with printouts, on how to put the familiar ADAM  'boot  screen' at the head of your  own  programs.  It's  in the Nov 94 463 AUG nl, among others.Netnews: should you make a deal  on  the FidoNet and not make  payment,  you  are  now  entitled  to be named and chastised on the  ADAM  Echo.  The unfortunate precedent was established because of the  activities of a Canadian echo  user,  who,  fairness  requires  us do today.' Lincoln said Wednesday.Howard [sic] was  in  Japan  to unveil Nintendo's 32-bit Virtual Boy video games system,  a  game  machine  which transports the player  into  a three-dimensional virtual world.  He said that this, and later versions would make today's games like Gameboy antiques by the turn  of  the century." Vancouver Sun, Nov 17/94. How do you like them news? I think I'll change my will, leave the ADAM to the kids, maybe try for a tax deduction  and  present  it to the National Museuinal)  And  you can get lightning  any  time  of  year  if  weather  conditions, especially winds, create an  imbalance in static charges between air and land, according  to  a  weather-person I heard on radio recently, the Gleaner adds.PC-File is a shareware program that will give you a 1500- record database, runs  under  TDOS, and is shareware. It is described as very powerful  and  easy to use, by Faye Deere. Shareware  means  you  try it and if you like it, you mail the  programmer  his  fee--about  $ FidoNet  when  discussing this topic. You can use a program  especially written to make your  newer  computer  think  it's  a  CP/M  Z80  model, however.  It's called MYZ80, and here's the info:"Lee Bradley sells MY-Z-Demo, a package for running CP/M or the Z-System on a PC. It comes  on a high-density 3.5 inch  disk  with  Simeon  Cran's  Z80  emulator  My-Z80, version  1.11,  the  disk  also  contains  the shareware version   of   22Disk,   170   utilities,   and  copious documentation  files.  The  coree  meetings  was  just  two people, so the interest just wasn't there. Faye Deere of the ECAUG expressed the hope  in  her  Nov  '94  nl that surviving members might join the South Florida ADAM User Group and that James Poulin,  a prolific article author, could be persuaded to continue  and  write for her AUGER nl. There's always  a  home  for anyone who wants one in the ADAM world.A CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only  Memory) of CP/M (TDOS) programs is now  being  tested before release.  To quote David McGith En Francais SmartKEYS (CLEFS  Smart?) and accents on the vowels. Editor Jerry Vrancks  says  in  his introduction that pictures are worth  a  thousand words, but I'd like even more on this  subject.  Canadian  ADAM  cartons  do have Both Official Languages  on  'em--I've never seen a US carton--but it's  news  to  me that the ADAM could do French. While we're more or  less  on  the topic; one of Canada's early ADAM  groups  was the First Canadian ADAM Group  (FCAUG)  of  Montreal.  Its  newsletter,  Synction--McGlone  says  it  is 23,394 files  totalling  482  mb  [megabytes],  is  that "Given the mechanical durability  of  CDROMs  and  their absolute immunity  from  magnetic effects, everything on this CD-ROM is now safe from  wear,  all  but  the  most extreme heat, and  magnetic  fields." One little detail: there aren't any CP/M computers  that  use  CD-ROMs. You must use them  on  a  MS-DOS  or Windows, etc, computer. CP/M cannot even handle the directory  size of a CD-ROM, Guy  Cousineau  said  on 25  US.  The program is available for $3  US  plus  $1  shipping  for disk, and $5 US plus  $1.50  shipping for datapack, from ECAUG at PO Box 4934, Fort Walton  Beach,  FL 32549-4934 USA.Another one bites the dust:  the Metro Orlando ADAM User Group (MOAUG) has packed it  in.  The contributions this group made to the ADAM community were considerable: they hosted the  first  ADAMCon,  produced a fine newsletter, and through it, a  lot  of  information  for  everyone's benefit.Attendance at the  last  thst  is  $10.00 [US] Lee R. Bradley, 24  East  Cedar  Street, Newington, CT., 06111- 2534." (Z-Letter, Sept/Oct 94).Next best thing to being there:  Bart  Lynch,  of  Kent, WA.,  is  a  full-time  ADAMite  and  occasional  Boeing employee.  I  don't  think  he's  missed an ADAMCon yet. One of Bart's  hobbies  is  photography and he regularly shoots up a storm. November's  463  ADAM  nl  reproduces some  of  the  ADAMcon  06  pictures.  Interesting shots include one of an ADAM screen  in  French, complete wlone of The Z-Letter:  "The  beta version [test version] of the CD-ROM  also  contains a lot of software from Jay Sage, the complete  CP/M  sections  of at least one BBS, the contents of the CP/M laptops area of Genie, and  everything  that  was  ever stored at Simtel on the Internet. This last includes the entire CP/MUG and SIG/M libraries!" (Z-Letter, Sept/Oct 94)This is in addition to several  large  libraries McGlone now distributes, the  Sound  Potentials and Lambda.  The value of of this huge  colletax, lasted 12 issues, from November  of  1985  to January of '87,  at  which  time  both  disappeared without notice, explanation or apology.(Editorial comment. ADAMs that were exported overseas to countries in Europe included language cards for English, French or German,  as appropriate.  These were PC boards which mounted in Expansion slot #2, and were intended to be used with appropriate daisy wheels. Terry Fowler comes up with some  of the brightest ideas. One of his enthusiasms is  the entertainme boards. In most cases they will suffice for the  average  user. And if they want or need more RAM; they can always go to 256k or more. " (Faye B. Deer, AUGER, Nov 94)Interest in the GO-DOS/GO-BASIC program still continues. Patricia Herrington has informed the 463 ADAM club's Don Woolston that the program  is  now  Freeware--apparently not to be sold,  just  given  away,  although  obviously charges for copying etc, can still be made. (463 ADAM nl Oct 94) and Richard Cossaboon,  521  Chain St., Apt.  1, Nf the new models, too. After a quick glossing over of the new whistles and bells, most games and software become rarely used as you devote your time to the real  needs.  So I for one, find it hard to  invest  thousands  of dollars in a new model computer right now, and when  I  do,  I  will weight the prices  versus  new  features  very  carefully  for  the specific need I have  in  mind. It is simply going to be hard to  beat  my  current  set-up  using  ADAM  and  an inexpensive IBM XT clone for  the usesward,  of  Norwich, to Keith Marner, operator of the United Kingdom ADAM Subscribers club and nl. They appeared in the Oct/Nov 94 issue.Howard;" Mark Gordon seems to  be a clever guy if he can develop the items listed in  the Feb/March 94 issue, why stop there. How about an adapter  to play other makes of cartridges or better  still  make new cartridges to play on the Coleco, as there are  not  any new ones coming to light."Marner; " James,  on  your  first point, I think you are just too late with thisut it, but the latest AIM announces a sale on 64k  cards at US$29.95 plus US$5 shipping and handling and describes  this  as a "special pre-production  price."  (It's  certainly  a good price, even with the  exchange  rate) Which may mean that Terry will produce another batch of  expander  cards,  but the price will likely be higher.  A 64k card is an essential accessory for your ADAM, Faye  says,  and  a  supply  is crucial;"I tried to impress on Terry that what ADAM users really needed were 64K expandernt center, and another is saving money "In terms of enjoyment, however, the ADAM System is hard to beat  for  the price you pay. It already displays on any TV with Audio and Video jacks to produce a clear  and  steady color picture.  And with PIP (Picture-In-Picture) I  can  still  keep  tabs on my favorite TV  Program  or  Newscast while I worked on the computer.  I've introduced so  many new expansions to my ADAM  that  I  honestly  don't  have time to use most of them, but isn't this going to be true oorristown, PA., 19401, has  written a program using GO- BASIC. Graphic File Addresser  is  a label-maker program that described as  "one  of  the easiest programs I have run" by Jerry Vrancks of the 463 club.It requires a 320k disk drive and Dot Matrix printer, if you want to use the built-in GO-BASIC fonts.The GFA uses the  game  controller to select commands on screen and is one of the few  the Gleaner knows of which do so.Last  Words  Dept;  The  following  excerpts  are from a letter by  James  Ho in which I invest my  time  doing  computer  work.  And even when the time really  comes  to  upgrade,  there  will  still  be ADAM available at  my  entertainment center for fun and quick work. My  opinion,  ADAM  will  never  become  obsolete! Never." Terry Fowler  AIM  News,  AIM  nl,  October  94. Other gleanings from the AIM  nl: Terry has been lobbied hard by Faye Deere, in  the  AUGER nl and personally, to keep a stock of 64K expanders  available.  According  to Faye, Terry wasn't that excited abo request. As you can see from the NEWS page, Mark is no longer developing new products for the ADAM. This is not directed  at you alone, James, but we must all act quickly to get in touch with developers. Their first request is always for our support.""This, if sufficient revenue  is generated, will lead on to development of new  products.  We  must  all  realize that if these people do not  make  money from their hard efforts, how can we  expect  them to continue production of the present line let alone idian is the Sysop of my favourite local BBS,  Ada Willis.  Here are some samples of her columns. I've taken the liberty of combining four columns into one.  with appropriate editing. Enjoy!. BDC.Too often the so-called "golden years" do not live up to our expectations and  usual  hobbies and sports begin to pall.  It is time then to begin  thinking  in  terms  of keeping  our  mental  processes  as  sharp  as they were before we became  members  of  the "leisure class".  The need to be stimulated mentallpported  Micro  Innovations sufficiently." (capitals in original). -- ADAMs, for instance.Nature, we are told, abhors a vacuum.  So apparently, does electronics. That's the message I get from this little piece that the Aug 94 Puget Sound ADAM Newsnet found in the CompuServe Magazine;"I don't know how many times in my 20-year career a customer has called me after vacuuming his computer to report fried memory chips or strange behavior.  He usual without fanfare or fuss.As mature  individuals  we  have the opportunity to join this "new wave" with an advantage the younger generation can never have..  the sense of adventure!  Computing, to the younger generation is another  class  in school...or something you have to  do  as  part of your job.  To the rest of us computing can be  fun...as  long as you don't give up too  easily!  At  the  keyboard you can turn out correspondence with perfect  spelling...fly  a  jet with Chuck Yeager...play  a  roundÌ1 ×58                     COMPUTER FILE.                     BY ADA WILLIS.We, who are  fortunate  enough to reside in the Qualicum Beach area of Vancouver Island,  are exposed to a small, non-profit local journal  know as the Meridian. It isn't distributed to your home like  many of our other freebie newspapers are.  If you want  a copy you'll have to pick it up at one of the myriad places where it is displayed. Sometimes I remember to do that,  but not always.  Among the many contributors to the Mer spend  what  they haven't got  on  developing  new  items.  Look at the stuff they have produced, memory cards  the  capacity  of which was never heard of in the  early  eighties, hard disk drives which we all thought was  only  for  IBM  and  MACINTOSH users, interface cards without  which  we could not ever dream of using  external  modems and 80 column monitors. Ask yourselves how many of  these  have  you  go sitting next   to  or  attached  to  your  ADAMs  and  then  ask yourselves  if  you  have  suy  is  vital  to  our well- being  and  in  getting  away  from that "rocking chair" syndrome.Computers and the things one  can  do  with them are the key to a whole new  learning  experience....they put the challenge back into our lives  and  keep  adding more as each one is met.  Computers were a new "frontier" not so long  ago  and  have  had  the  greatest impact on human society since the industrial revolution.  Without anyone really noticing, the world,  very  quietly,  entered the age of technologyly winds up spending hundreds to put things right.A vacuum of any kind, especially one with a brush attachment at the end, is one of the best generators and transporters of static electricity.  When a vacuum is running, especially an old one, it generates a good static charge that can dissipate right where you don't want it--in a chip.Never, under any circumstances, use a vacuum on the inside components of your CPU [Central Processing Unit] even the tiny ones sold 'for computers.' Always use compressed   of golf with champions on the finest courses in the world...play  chess  with  the masters....and.. my favourite activity, communicate with total strangers all over the world.  You can build...and destroy empires; venture into galactic space and explore new worlds that are fraught with danger. You can indulge your artistic flair with computer art, compose great new symphonies etc.. In short, you can do anything!  And the one for-sure guarantee  is...your mind will not rust out before it wears out!One thr money. It  is  a  sure  thing that the '286 with the inviting pricetag will be a white elephant in less than  six  months.  As you become more expert... and you will, I  promise!...that  slow-as-molasses  '286 will drive you right up the wall  and, believe me, it is hard to kick yourself from up there.The technology is moving  so  swiftly that even the '386 is becoming  the  "slow"  standard,  but,  if  you  plan carefully and make sure that  the system you purchase is "upgradeable",  the  '386  will seie" get launched. Learning computing is not that  easy...that is where the challenge  lies...you  will  be stretched to your limits and perhaps beyond, frustrations  are a fact of life and developing a new  way  of  looking at things is vital to getting the best out of this  new experience. Those many questions of what kind of equipment, which software..the best operating system, all must be carefully considered. Opinions  are  many  and  varied and, as usual, everyone believes they are right, but  what...I consider 8 megs of RAM to be the minimum....more if you can swing it.Next consideration...which operating  system!....a  real "can  of  worms".....here  I  can only give you personal preferences   as   my  advice.....just  start  out  with DOS5....this is all you will need to begin with.  As you become more familiar with your  new  hobby  you  can get adventurous.  Take  it  very  easy  buying  software and beware  of  systems  already  set  up  with  stuff  like "Windows  V5.1",  etc.  You  absolutecting  opinions  and  a  great deal  of  "techie  talk"  or  "compuspeak" and are about ready to forget  the  whole  thing...right?  Well,  just take a deep breath and keep  on  reading.  There is just one rule here...keep  it  simple....not because YOU are, but because the whole topic  of  computers  is  far from simple.The first consideration is not price, but need.  You can go for cheap and a  lot  of  "bells and whistles" thrown in....these are mostly just gimmicks to attract you into parting with youing is certain with computers...you  either  hate- 'em or become completely addicted to them.If you decide that you may want to become one of the new adventurers,  there  are  certain  "do's and don'ts" you should  become  aware  of.  One  thing  is for sure..you should NEVER walk into a  computer store and just baldly state.."I want to buy a computer".The purchase of this type of equipment has to begin with questions, asked of people who  have nothing to gain and who are usually  glad  to  help a "newbrve you well for quite some time.  Right from the beginning, make sure that the hard drive..(storage)..is of  adequate  size.  Start out with no less than  a  180  megabyte hard drive...more if you can afford it.  Then there  is  RAM...(Random Access Memory), this is usually the first mistake...1 or 2 megs of memory sounds like  lots  but, when you begin loading in those programmes and the  message  keeps coming up... "Not  enough  memory"...you  will  end  up with all your hair on the  floor  around  you!. is right for them may not be right for you.  A  computer is an investment with unlimited potential so you invest for the best return on your money.  You go to  the  experts....and  these  are, quite simply, the people who  use  them the way you plan to.Before you decide  to  take  that initial plunge and see for yourself what this new technology  is all about, you will  have  asked  questions  of friends who already are computer users and are  now  totally  confused,  right?. You have heard many conflily NEED manuals for your   software....you   will  learn  more  by  personal experimentation than all the  classes you might consider at this point.Another must, right  at  the  beginning is...a modem and GOOD tele-commmunications software...NOT  the  "freebie" that comes with the modem.  The modem, once set up, will give you access to bulletin board systems, (BBS's) and a plethora of shareware to play around with until you find your direction. A good  analogy is....a computer without a modem is two dimennto a board and does all kinds of neat  things.  There  are  different  types  of chips for different jobs.  The  most  important  is  the microprocessor...it contains the complete arithmetic and logic unit of the computer...the  brains in other words. Chips  come  in  various  sizes  and, when you look at a motherboard it's rather like looking down on a miniature city with copper coloured roads and black buildings. The speed of  the  microprocessor  is what give the computer it's designation as a 386 or  4oks your  computer into the telephone network. This is a subject unto  itself that we will get into later.At this point I figured it  was about time to clear some of the fog  surrounding  the  new  "language"  that  has pervaded our society, No...not  French,  but the one you hear when us computer "nerds " meet!It goes  something  like  this...."Hi, Joe...did you get that new ROM installed yet?"......."Oh, hi, Bill....nope ......gotta get a new motherboard and need some more RAM first, some of the new a..the size (measured in kilobytes) is an indicator  of  the  capacity  of the computer. 1024 kilobytes  is  1 megabyte...1 kilobyte is 1,048,576 bytes.  1 megabyte  can  store  more  than one million   characters.    Hard  drives  come  in  various capacities....I have two hard drives...one has 105 megs, the  other  has  180...seems  like a lot but there never enough, honest!.SCUZZY....the affectionate  term  for  SCSI  drives...it stands  for  Small  Computer  Systems  Interface.  In my opinion it's the f. I talk this way  when  I'm  with other computer "nerds". Then, when I see someones eyes going glassy or crossed.. I know there is a "newbie" nearby....so here goes with a translation of the terms I have  already  used  and I'll add a few more you are likely to hear from time to time.ROM....an acronym  for  "Read  Only Memory":  A computer chip that contains instructions  to  the  computer  that cannot be changed.CHIP....a  little  gidget  that  looks  something like a black caterpillar  that  plugs isional...with  one  it becomes three and opens up your system and you, to a whole new world.Shareware is software on  a  try-before-you-buy basis... everything from  computer  assisted  drafting  (CAD)  to computer, arcade style games...and some of them are very sophisticated  (and  addictive).  This  way  you  get  a "feel" for what you are likely  to enjoy doing with your system without shelling out  big bucks for software that will end up being shelved....so,  a modem is a must!  it is a device that ho86.  The  number attached to that..i.e...50 is the speed.MOTHERBOARD....the  heart  of  the  computer....it holds most of the chips  required  to make the computer into a working unit and also the add-in  boards  such as video, communications, etc. It controls the interaction between the  various  components...power supply, floppy and hard drives, video  cards,  etc.  There's  an  analogy  there somewhere <grin>RAM....acronym for Random Access  Memory,  this  is  the main memory where data  is  stored..pps are so big the system chokes and crashes.....half my stuff ended up in the bit bucket last week...good job I backed  up first or the lot would have been grunged!  Maybe it's time for an upgrade...saw a nice 486/55  last  week...think I'll go for it. It had multi-media built in..nice touch  that!  there's a spare slot or two so I can  scoot  the tape drive over...might even go for a bigger drive...maybe  a 200 meg scuzzy.... nice stuff"...and so on.Makes a lot of sense doesn't it?  I plead guilty myselbest type of hard drive though the most expensive.  One of  it's  most important features is the ability of the SCSI adapter  to  interface  up  to seven other   devices,   such  as  tape  drives,  CD-ROMS  and scanners...to name but a few. My drives are scuzzies and the adapter runs  my  2  floppy drives, tape backup, CD- ROM,   hand   scanner,  modem,  printer  and  both  hard drives....and I have yet to  get  a bad sector on either of   the  two  hard  drives  because  they  are  factory formatted  and  " get started.All BBS's have names...unique to the SysOp's taste, some are good,  run  by  responsible SysOps, but some leave a lot to be desired.  In Qualicum  Beach  there are two in the first category,  Shangri-La, a large well-run system with two lines in, both with high speed modems...and my, more modest one, The Crystal  Cave,  also  with  a  high speed modem  and  one  line.  In Parksville, as far as I know, there are no first class ones. On the Island there are dozens! from Tofino to Victoria  andfor applications...or,  in plain English ..programmes.    Lastly..."interface"....it's  a  device that connects peripherals to the computer and allows the exchange of information.And now a  few  thoughts  on  one of the side effects of computing...a bonus that seldom occurs to us when we are at the shopping phase, this is telecommunications.Add a modem, a fast one preferred, a good communications programme to your shopping list,  Not the "freebie" that comes with  the  modem.  Ask  someone you know...(wou.  Verification  usually  consists  of a phone call to make sure someone with nefarious intent is not using your name and phone number to log on illegally.This  happens  more  frequently than many realize and is very much against the  law.  Strange  as  it  may  seem, there are those whose sole intent  is  to  make mischief and   vandalize  by  uploading  viruses....nasty  little critters that can make chop  suey out of your programmes ...even lock your system up and  clean the disks of data completely. merits of commercial service...suffice it to  say  I  cancelled  all  mine!   there  are  lots  of "goodies" but not enough cash, being online is addictive and not for the novice.A  BBS...which  means  Bulletin Board System...can offer the same, just less of it  and  be  far  more,  what  is termed,  "user  friendly".  It  is  usually a one-person hobby.....the person being known as the "SysOp"..meaning System  Operator.  The  SysOp  is  invariably  far  more available and willing to help a "newbieinterleaved...(two  more terms for later discussion!)...this just means you can't mess them up!To wind up...some of  the  other terms I used, the "bit- bucket", the non-existent place  where  your  hard  work disappears  to  leaving  no  trace behind....."crash" is what a computer does to pay you  back for pushing it too hard or asking it to do  something it is not equipped to do such as washing dishes or  vacuuming....."grunged", a term  for  something  you  did  to mess up your data.... "apps" is short   all points in- between. Most have echoes/conferences/forums.  These are names for plain old  messaging areas....many of them are international in scope.Most have CD-Rom drives  and  disks  with  thousands  of files ...all available to you  after  you have undergone the  verification  process.  Usually you must fill out a questionnaire  when you log  on...(term  for  calling  a BBS)...the  first  time..after  a suitable interval your security level  will  be  upgraded and more will be made available to yho is not in the trade) ..about the  type  that will fill your needs the best and then,  when all is set up, prepare to venture into the world of BBS'ing.There are  online  commercial  services  and  there  are BBS's.    When   you  are  learning  telecommunications, commercial services are not  the  greatest idea....every tick of the computer clock is money marching out of your bank  account.  Most  BBS's  are  either  free or have a nominal   sign-up   fee.   I'm  not  going  to  go  into discussing the...column on this at a later date.This is the  reason  that,  when you are ready for going online, you make sure that  it  is  a  BBS that is fully protected against  virus  attacks...you can then be sure of "clean" virus free files.  The  BBS  you call usually carries a listing of other local BBS's you can call.One  of  the  most  interesting  areas  to  visit is the messaging   area...especially   if  the  BBS  brings  in "echoes". There are  very  few topics not covered by one echo or another and ares in the field of data manipulation. Prices of new, more sophisticated systems, continue to decline  because  of advancements in design, production and reliability.  And  the emergence of Third World countries as the main sources for labour-intensive components has had a marked effect on current prices.And when the market price for new, more advanced systems declines, the  marketable  values of previous-generation systems also decline, to the  point where the second and third generation systems, such as Pted, rather dull and lonely hobby.  A high speed one will pay for itself  in  no  time,  and  prices  are tumbling.  Now is the time!. d didn't it recommend using a narrow tube tip of some kind to get right down into your ADAM? If so, how many ADAMs did I assist into the Silicon Valley of Death? Any? The advice business is full of mental anguish, and not just for those who take it, it's tOne of the problems that  arises, when data manipulation programs advance in sophistication (read speed and size) they frequently create situations where earlier versions of that same program, cannot be used to manipulate those packets created by later versions.  Most programmers are careful to accommodate downwards  mobility,  whereby the newer versions  can  handle  the output of their earlier versions, but not vice versa.The compression system installed on my local Fisonet BBS is an updated version oÌ1 ×58        FEW RAMBLING THOUGHTS FROM YOUR EDITOR.                     DAVID COBLEY.Over the six years we have  been publishing this journal not only has our format and content  noticeably changed, but the ADAM world  has  taken on a different look. Many of the formerly well-known personalities  have  moved to other ventures and  new  characters have emerged to take over the forefront of our ADAM fraternity.And the face of computing has  been  irrevocably altered by the exponential rate of progres usually  brought  in on FidoNet, a completely volunteer  mail-handling network that spans the globe...there are  others  such  as  Internet....the biggest but not entirely free.  Last,  but  not least is online gaming. Most BBS's have "doors" listed; enter one and you find yourself in another world...everything from card games to  space  adventure and they are interactive team games. A modem is a little like an  Aladdin's  Lamp which makes computing three  dimensional  and satisfying rather than an isolaC-XT and 80286 MS-DOS systems, capable of running much of the present stock of IBM-compatible MS-DOS  software, are now well within the reach of many former and current ADAM devotees.Technological change in the computing  world, is a self- sustaining process.  The  more sophisticated and capable the current and developing systems  are,  the faster and more reliably they can be  used to facilitate the design and manufacture of even more  sophisticated products and their efficient utilization. Ad infinitum!ough on we who dish it out, too.ADAM's House often tells me more about the state of the ADAM world in its ad's than it does in Terry Fowler's (Mr.  ADAM's House), fine nl, the ADAM International Media.  For example, the same PSAN nl that advises us to eschew, if not abhor, vacuums, also carries an ad from Pearland offering ADAM computer systems--the basic set we all bought, but less printer or power supply, for $99.95. The printer is available for another mere-- $99.95! Or a power supply for $49.95. Thinkf PKZIP, called PKZIP V2.04G. We, in the CP/M (T-DOS) world, have some earlier versions of the ZIP program which we can use, but because of limited memory size, a limitation of  the microprocessor used in most CP/M systems, while we can UNZIP packets created by PKZIP, there is insufficient memory working space for us to create ZIPped packages for uploading to the BBS.I tried using my ADAM with  local bulletin boards with a limited degree of success, including  the upgrading to a 2400 baud modem, as I've wm- de-plume!!!Anyway to continue, since I was definitely interested in getting my daily assignments from U of A, and one of our local entrepreneurs, (the fellow who used to run the BBS I originally depended on until he suddenly up and closed down) had just opened up a local source of InterNet.I approached our family  Treasurer (Midge) for authority to set up an InterNet account.  My proposal was accepted by the financial committee (of one) and I went ahead and opened the account.  In other words, I sent systems.  The  ADAM keyboard is just that  much  more  comfortable for me, when compared with those of later acquisitions.About a month ago, my e-mail access to InterNet, another Fidonet BBS, went off the air for several days. It seems that, while trying to upgrade the backup system he uses, our sysop inadvertently reformatted block zero of his #2 system hard drive, which happened to be the systen where the InterNet e-mail was handled.  It was a critical time for me, because I had just signed up to partimary system was destroyed  or  interrupted by enemy attack or other forces. I suppose they  still  finance it, but I'm not sure. It certainly seems self sustaining now and has grown to include almost the entire world, including some ex-communist countries.  Academics being academics, they favoured a most difficult and  not user-friendly system. What is it about  these  scions of higher learning? Must they select the system that is least useful to we other, lesser mortals? Anyway. Now I have not only to studf it tries to deliver your  mail and it cannot connect up, right there and then! it cancels  the  attempt and sends you, as the originator, an  unwelcome little note saying your mail was undeliverable. The note is produced by the program, not by some human agency, and it's terse to say the least.  Our local gremlin  that  returns mail, calls itself  Daemon-epaus.island.net.  I  don't know what the epaus stands for, but my Oxford Encyclopaedic Dictionary lists daemon as a form of demon, a most appropriate noritten in my previous articles on the subject of adding an  80-column terminal to ADAM. But once my main source BBS was exclusively using a form of data compression which was  not available to CP/M (or T-DOS), I perforce  needed  to look elsewhere for access or choose to move to some system that could utilize this compression system. There were no alternative sources.Despite the foregoing discussion,  ADAM is my choice for word processing,  even  though I now have later versions of VDE on both my MS-DOS a cheque for one year of what's known as a Shell account.  Nothing to do with the oil consortium by the same name!!Remember that using InterNet  necessitates your learning at least the rudiments of UNIX,  the operating system of choice on the 'Net. Unix  is  an older operating system, much favoured by the academics  that  were  the original users of the system, which  was initially established by the U.S. Department of Defence  as  an alternative means of  National  communication  in  the event their pricipate in a six-week course from the University of Alabama, on using InterNet. The college sends out, on InterNet, one lesson per day, and I was losing out on my lessons.InterNet is a bit  different  from Fidonet when it comes to undelivered mail. If you  don't  immediately  collect your mail on a  Fidonet  board, it just sits there until you do collect it, or until  the  assigned storage space for that Echo on your local  BBS overflows it out of the bottom of the pile.  But -InterNet  acts differently! Iy the convolutions of InterNet in order to get my (our) monies worth, but I must also become  familiar with yet another computer command language.On my Shell account I get 75  minutes access per day for one full calendar year. I can  send  and receive private mail to/from anyone that has  direct access to InterNet, or who has indirect access via a Freenet, or via Fidonet UUCP gateways, or Compuserve (CIS), or Genie, or America On-Line (AOL), or a whole list of others I forget.I can access over 6000 News the known ADAM world. He writes almost all of the material that appears in his newsletter. Much of  it profound; all of it well- researched, extremely useful and topical.Now Tom is not a believer in  reprinting material that's already been  published  elsewhere. Maybe that's because he can generate enough material  to  fill his newsletter himself. But to we, less prolific mortals, who strive to produce an ADAM newsletter, a reliable source of someone else's outpourings  is  essential. And ANN has fulfillhere our local GP took his MD. From there went to the  Education Ministry in Singapore. Midge having spent six years  in  Malaya.  From there to Pensacola, Fl., and got a  weather forecast, and then to a chat session at the University of Washington. All in a few minutes and in the comfort of our own home.Both Midge and I claim Welsh  ancestry and so, one day I journeyed electronically to the University of Wales, set in a delightful Welsh  city  called Aberystwyth. There I was able to read what was on  in lso undertook to host ADAMcon06. I guess, that with the combined load, as the time of final preparations for the convention drew near and the supply of ADAM articles declined, something had  to  give. And wisely, Bob chose to let his ANN disc editing slide.  Unfortunately,  that coincided with a decline  in  articles coming in to your editor and rather than accept  a lesser standard for our newsletter, I decided it was time to quit publishing it, before things got worse.But I wouldn't want you to  think tusurp David Sands enviable reputation for reporting ADAM goings-on through his Gleanings column,  for  which David deserves all the credit he can get, as well as  my personal appreciation. He didn't get a chance to  comment on Tom Keene's latest newsletter which arrived after David had taken our stock away to his place to prepare  his column. So, with yours and his implied permission I will mention one point.I think I can  say,  without  fear of argument, that Tom has to be the most prolific writer  among Groups,  which are much like Fidonet Echoes except  they  are faster and worldwide. I can use a program called Gopher,  that's an approporiate name, to access  hundreds  of  bulletin boards thoughout the world. One day last week,  Midge  and  I visited, by way of my computer and InterNet, her old university, the University of  Liverpool,  and accessed it's information services; we went from there  to the dat centre at Kings Colege Hospital in London, where Midge's #2 daughter did her nurses training, and wed that need admirably in the past. This year, however, was different. Especially from May until October.I would be remiss if I did not  mention  that,  prior to this year, there had been lean and late delivery periods for ANN, but that happens in any volunteer organization.Two years ago,  Bob  Blair,  after he retired, and moved from the Washington. D.C., area  to  Florida, offered to take over  as  Editor-in-Chief of the ADAM News Network. Which he did with notable success.  Then, at ADAMcon 05, Bob a the local cinemas that week. And I'm sure I'm only scratching the surface.If I sound all enthusiastic  about all this, it's likely because I am. It's fascinating,  and loads of fun, and I can hardly wait to get back on for my next session.But, 75 minutes soon disappears when you are having fun, and I don't want to incur unnnecessary overtime charges. So much for InterNet, which I hope to deomnstrate at our next VISA meeting, at our home, on December 3rd, 1994.On to other things. Without wishing to hat ANN was the prime cause. Nossir!  It was time I  took a rest from my self- inposed deadlines, and let a  year fall where it may.  I need the break! and I'm going to try to use it wisely.                    FREENETS FOR ALLThe FreeNet phenomenon is  sweeping across the nation!!! According to messages I downloaded from a local BBS, the number of established FreeNets  in  Canada is increasing rapidly. During Science and  Technology week (Oct 14-23) alone several new systems were inaugurated including oration. One of the first in Canada. There are others  in B.C. including one in Vancouver and others in Prince George and Trail.And there are FreeNets in many other countries including the U. S., Germany and New Zealand.The main selling point of  FreeNets is the fact that the service is free, at best, or  inexpensive, at worst. The major costs are borne by  commercial users and sponsors, who utilize the system for advertising  or  to  transfer data to other users or their  own branches. For example, the rowsmith FreeNet  Association,  our  local  group trying to get a FreeNet system  working  here. We're not really close to starting here yet, but we're optimistic.What is a FreeNet you may ask. With editorializing, here is an explanation gleaned from  the text that was handed out to those attending the  initial meeting of the group that has formed the Mount Arrowsmith FreeNet Association.A FreeNet is a free computer service that promises to be as indispensable as your television  and telephone. Like youin  the  psychiatrist explained how the human brain worked by comparing its functions to data processing. Here is an edited version."As I talk to you now,  it's the left hemisphere of your brain that's processing my  speech. When I make a string of noises, your brain understands them. Hearing, speech, rules of grammar, mental calculations - all of these are controlled by the left hemisphere.The left stands for logic, order and discipline.  Serial input! But if two people are  talking to you at the same  modem attached to your telephone.  You dial a telephone number that connects you to the FreeNet  computer,  then follow the simple instructions  and  menus that take you to the information you seek. (Menus  are  lists of options from which you can make selections).The first FreeNet was  established In Cleveland, Ohio in 1986 to handle medical enquiries.  It  now has more than 100 dedicated telephone lines receiving 10,000 calls per day, on a wide variety of topics.Victoria already has a  FreeNet in opene in Edmonton, another in Calgary,  another on the Niagara Peninsular, one in Manitoba, and ones in Fredericton and Saint John. And Toronto and Montreal are close to firing up. Toronto is expected to start service with between 70 and 100 lines for access. Phew!!!Looks like the Information Superhighway is underway here as well as in the States.I've been using the electronic mail (E-mail) on Internet for some time now, thanks to  a local BBS. It helps that the sysop is also the treasurer  of the Mount Armajor funding for the Edmonton  FreeNet was provided by a group  of  eight  sponsors who each donated $20,000 towards getting their system  up  and  running.  I don't think we'll get  that  kind  of sponsorship around here, but you never know until you try.On an entirely different subject,  I  recently  finished reading a work  of  fiction  involving idiot savants. In the book was a passage about  an  imaginary conversation between a  clinical  psychiatrist and the publisher of a scientific journal, wherer TV, this exciting new concept delivers information, and like your  telephone,  it  provides person-to-person communication.FreeNet is an electronic forum.  You  can discuss issues with community leaders  or  exchange ideas about hobbies and other interests with enthusiasts you have never met. FreeNet enables you to send and receive electronic mail, (E-Mail) with other FreeNet users, whether they're local to you, or otherwise, including international.To access FreeNet you need a  computer which has atime,  you will get confused,  because you are trying to process parallel data with a serial facility.On the other hand,  our  little-used right hemisphere is concerned with our vision and artistic ability. Parallel input.It has formidable powers that  we're only just beginning to understand.  We know a lot about brain structure, but very little about brain function.You could watch a wall  of  a  hundred televisions, each running different programs,  and  your  right hemisphere would be able to  spot  to improve on perfection!!)FILEMNGR.661   Part Five and the conclusion of my series on Filemanager V3.0.GLEANING.661   Need I say more. From Nov/Dec issue.Cheers and all the very best. David.------------------------------------------------------------THECARD.TXT   An article by Ron Mitchell describing some preliminary investigations into Chris Braymen's  Xmas94 package. Truly a wonderful bit of work. You'll like it. What we'd like to see is more ADAMites taking advantage of the programming capÌ1 ×67ADAM News NetworkMonthly Disk - December 1994.Note: This Readme File covers both sides of the disk. This month. there is no Readme file on the other side.ALTCAROL.IZG This is an alternative set of Christmas Carols for the Xmas94 program on the other side. Chris provided the music, but just in case you'd like to hear more. 'Some assembly required.' but don't worry, you can do it. See the file on this side called THECARD.TXT. Basically, all you have to do is uncrunch this file and clone it to aritten in my previous articles on the subject of adding an  80-column terminal to ADAM. But once my main source BBS was exclusively using a form of data compression which was  not available to CP/M (or T-DOS), I perforce  needed  to look elsewhere for access or choose to move to some system that could utilize this compression system. There were no alternative sources.Despite the foregoing discussion,  ADAM is my choice for word processing,  even  though I now have later versions of VDE on both my MS-DOShem.GLEANING.651David Sands usually tongue-in-cheek look at the other ADAM publications he reads.FILEMNGR.651 An article on Filemanager V3.0 Part Four.RAMBLING.661  This is actually my swan song editorial but it deals with many other rambling thoughts about FreeNet, InterNet, and computing in general. It may be of interest to the ADAM community at large, especialy if judiciously edited by someone at arm's length.(editor's note. I would not presume to edit any material David gives me. Difficult immediately if one of them had a faulty picture.But if you played a hundred different  tunes and one was being played  out  of  tune,  your left hemisphere would give up the ghost."r one and you find yourself in another world...everything from card games to  space  adventure and they are interactive team games. A modem is a little like an  Aladdin's  Lamp which makes computing three  dimensional  and satisfying rather than an isolaability that this set of utilities offers. XMAS94.IYG         This is the file on the other side of the disk all by itself. If needs to be uncrunched using UCRLZH.COM and then CLONEDed to a blank single sided EOS disk. ed by PKZIP, there is insufficient memory working space for us to create ZIPped packages for uploading to the BBS.I tried using my ADAM with  local bulletin boards with a limited degree of success, including  the upgrading to a 2400 baud modem, as I've w blank EOS disk. Then make a BACKUP of your Xmas94 program disk, and use the files provided here to replace the existing ADM files and Slides.DEF file.  My thanks to David Cobley, (Vancouver Island Senior ADAMphiles for the following material.------------------------------------------------------------ MERIDIAN.651   This is a collation of articles written by our local Fidonet Echo sysop, Ada Willis, and first printed in a local freebie paper called The Meridian. I have ADA's permission to circulate tÌ1 ×69The Christmas Joys of ADAM<by Ron MitchellDecember 4, 1994Ten Christmases ago there was a television ad that urged me to 'command the powers of ADAM'. It was one of the few television ads I ever paid any attention to. It altered the course of my life, for better or for worse.And here I now sit feeling particularly pleased with myself. The other ADAM in this room, the one normally used to run the Byteman BBS, is playing Christmas carols. They are carols that I told it how to play, and it's noterPaint you can prepare some quite impressive pieces of graphic work. You can use colour and fonts and clips, the whole toolkit. And that's exactly what the contributing users did.Patricia Herrington provided the fonts and Yule Tools,Bob Sebelist provided the clipsSol Swift provided PowerPaint (just a small contribution!)and Chris Braymen put it all together, adding music for both ADAM and for MIDI if you are so equipped.Now there's teamwork, eh?So I'm sitting there at 3am this morning wonderington all the way through the fall of 1993. So this year in my new role as Editor of the ADAM News Network, desiring to be politically correct, I vowed to make amends. Sent Chris a screen or two a few weeks back thus making sure that AUFG and ANN were both among the Christmas wellwishers as part of Xmas94. That taken care of, Chris' news created a stir of excitement.The file made its way through the telephone net between Salt Lake City and Ottawa, into my hard drive and through the cloning process onto a frieving better quality that the ADAM voice chips can produce. Quite simply, you make the pictures, you play the songs, and these drivers will help you put it all together into an integrated product. There is nothing difficult about this software. If you can read, you can understand. And here is a case in point. All of the following  was done today, from a standing start (not even knowing where I'd put the MULTI-MEDIA disk) and on about 4 hours' sleep.My objective was to produce another set of Christmas C I want you all to see it. It's an example of truly superb and advanced ADAM programming, using the full capabilities of the computer. You're going to see the card, and I guarantee you'll love it.  The Christmas card is a product of many different efforts from many talented ADAMites. It is also a product of users making use of super programs such as PowerPaint. What we were all asked to do was to develop a PowerPaint screen or picture in HRP format and forward them to Chris Braymen. As you know, using Pow doing a half bad job considering that the musician, me, is untrained and the arranger, me, more or less does his own thing. ADAM's voice chip is making sense of it all nonetheless.Here's the story.Last night Chris Braymen phoned me with what was an expected piece of news albeit a week early. The Card was ready. That's XMAS94, the annual diskfull of greetings from all ADAMITES near and far. I missed last year's. Never saw it, never contributed to it, despite urgings from Ron Collins and Patricia Herring just how this thing works. Actually, I already knew the answer. Just hadn't been paying much attention. At one of the ADAMcon's (forget which...might have been South Bend, might have been Cleveland, not sure, I bought from Chris a disk that he called MULTI-MEDIA Utilities. MULTI-MEDIA Utilities provides the user with a toolkit of driver programs giving you the capability to add music and graphics to your own SmartBASIC programs. If you have a MIDI setup, you can run the sound out through that thereby acheshly initialized 160K EOS disk. It was one of the few occasions where CLONE.COM didn't give me a hard time by eating my hard drive or doing something else equally wierd. My experiences with that program could fill a book, but are now quite beside the point. Suffice it to say that each time I do this - transfer a complex file over phone lines, I'm amazed that the process works at all, let along perfectly and with out error.To make a long story even longer yes, it worked! The card is a thing of beauty, andarols for Chris' Xmas94. Not that I didn't like the ones that are already there, but I just wanted to see if I could do it. Have Keyboard, - Will Play. The result is on this disk, offered as an accessory to the main card. You can install it quite easily if you wish, and I'll get to that in a minute. In concept, here is general idea:1) Chris' card program is a set of drivers, or what's known in the trade as an 'engine'. To function, it requires several different types of data files including CMP ADM and y work disk.There is on the Xmas94 disk a file called Slides.DEF. This is the file that tells the drivers how many data files of each type are to be used, and what their titles are. Xmas94, in its original state contains 21 picture files, 5 masks, and 9 song files. I simply changed the names of the song or ADM files, substuting my own. As it turned out, there was only room for 7 of the Christmas Carols I had prepared, so two had to be dropped. They're still on the ANN distribution disk, but not included ales. You can follow the SmartBASIC program and get a pretty good idea of what's going on. In fact it's  highly recommended that you print out all the BASIC programs on the disk and keep them with the word processor doc file that Chris provides. You'll learn the process more quickly using all the material available.3) There is no need to re-invent the wheel. You can use Chris' programs with your own data files. If you want to modify them so as to provide a particular effect or to play the pictures and/or mes, to make room for my own. I happen to have mostly 320K drives, but I deliberately didn't use the capability this time. Wanted to see what the single sided drive owners would be up against. As it turns out there are some things to watch for.Once you've erased the original ADM files, you'll have to crunch the disk to make sure the space liberated is truly free. This you do using normal FileManager procedures. Once you've done this, you can copy on my ADM files from side one of this ANN disk, AND the revi0 files to a separate work disk. Then using a bootable program in the MULTI-MEDIA Utilities disk, I converted the MF0 Files to ADM files, a simple process performed entirely by the program that Chris provides. That left we with two versions of each file on my work disk.I then made a backup of my Xmas94 EOS disk, and set the original aside....as all good users should do to avoid trouble.On my backup disk, I erased all the ADM files that were there and used FileManager to copy over my own ADM files from mMSK files. The CMP files are compressed picture files and the MSK files are transitional masks, the various neat effects you get between pictures, such as the fade or roll left, right, etc. He even provides a MASK editor on his disk and also a small text editor to assist in putting everything together. More about these utilities another time. 2) Once the drivers (3 binary files) are installed, all the engine does is feed the installed MIDI, VIDEO and SOUND chip routines with the information in the data fis part of my package. It will be left to you as an exercise to install them if you wish. So the changes were made with Smartwriter to the Slides.DEF file, and the amended version was saved back to the disk. And that was that. It worked, first time!There were a couple of problems along the way, and you might run into them if you're working with a 160K single sided disk drive. Xmas94 uses all the space available, and there is no room for additional data files. That's why I had to erase the original ADM filelodies in a given order, you can do that too.So today, I today I sat down and played shortened simplified versions of 9 Christmas Carols. Why 9? Well that was the number of music files that the original contained. I decided simply to replace the ADM or music files that were already there, although it's a relatively simple matter to add more, if you have the disk space.  I used SEQUEL and my MIDI MITE interface (Bonafide Systems, Chris Braymen) to prepare the song files, saving them as MF0 or MIDI format sed Slides.DEF file. That should put you in business.If you have a double sided drive, you can simply copy the additional ADM files on to the disk to add to the ones already there. There is no need to erase the original files, and you can use those plus mine for a total of 18 Christmas songs. Remember, for a single sided drive, there is only room for 7 of my new ADM files. (I'm not as efficient a musician as Chris, In fact I'm not a musician, he is).And there you have it. With just a little open minded +>@+~20v4<>+4-z05A<-+l5A0p4<~%++04<'0fH4HHpHHv
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Chris provided the music,  but just in case you'd like to hear more. 'Some assembly     required.' but don't worry, you can do it. See the file on   this side called THECARD.TXT. Basically, all you have to do  is uncrunch this file at of work. You'll like it. What we'd like to see is more ADAMites taking advantage of the programming         capability that this set of utilities offers. XMAS94.IYG         This is the file on the other side of the disk all by        itself. If needs to be uncrunched using UCRLZH.COM and then  CLONEDed to a blank single sided EOS disk. ANN-12.LLBA Christmas label for your disk. Use Swift's Label Maker.    It's a large label. Or, you can load it with PowerPaint.sly edited by       someone at armiter and add the two additional  names to the list. The number immediately preceeding the     list of song titles should also then be changed from 7 to 9.--------------------------------------------------------My thanks to David Cobley, (Vancouver Island Senior          ADAMphiles for the following material.------------------------------------------------------------ MERIDIAN.651   This is a collation of articles written by our local Fidonet Echo sysop, Ada Willis, and first printed in a local freebåååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååå's length.(editor's note. 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