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Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 12:36:36 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 19 12:36:36 1985
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	I've decided to open, on a trial basis, one of our
in-house PC-XT-based dial-in systems to others on the net.
This is NOT an RBBS-type system, but, instead, a system
that exists for the dissemination of various appropriate
pieces of public-domian software for PCDOS. The material
has been collected from various public domain
sources, including Compuserve, the Sources, and area
RBBS systems.
	It's running on a PC-XT with 576 kb of RAM,
10 mb disk, and 360 k floppy. The o.s. is IBM DOS 2.1,
and the communications software is Chuck Forsberg's
YAM software. (Yet Another Modem; for more
information leave a message on the system.)
	This is not at all a messaging or conferencing
system, although you can leave public messages
that by their nature anyone can read, or you can leave
public messages to the Sysop.
	On this system there is a wealth of public domian
software that you are welcome to download using xmodem or kermit.
most of the material is squeezed, and some of it
is in library archive forms, but the unsqueezer and
squeezer are available in unsqueezed form, as are the
library archiving handlers.
	Please feel free to give this system a try; if it
doesn't answer, it means we're busy using it for
something else; if you get a busy signal, it means
someone elase beat you to it, of course; in either
case, please try again later. Your best chances of getting
in will be on the weekends and overnight.
	300/1200 baud, the number is 212-315-1365.
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