From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!mcnc!idis!tom
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Title: info request (yet another)
Article-I.D.: idis.178
Posted: Tue Jan  4 14:35:12 1983
Received: Fri Jan  7 03:08:46 1983

	Friends and countrymen. Put this in the "I didn't think I needed to
know but..." message category. A local entrepreneur wishes me to write some pc
software, in return for which he plans to buy me a pc. Any help on the following
will be greatly appreciated.
	1. It appears that one gets the most bang for the buck by getting a bare
bones pc (16K, color board, no drives) from IBM and adding on. My current plans
include Tandon DD/DS drives with a Maynard controller, a C-Itoh prowriter, a
Princton graphic RBG color monitor , and an Alpha-byte 256K memory board
w/RS232. Any comments, recommendations, or warnings about any of the above or my
intended suppliers ("The Computer Line" in Colorado and Alpha-byte of Cal.)?
	2. I seem to remember a communications program in Basic appearing in
this newsgroup a few months ago. Does anyone have a copy that they could send
me?
	3. What experiences have people had with the various C compilers
available?
	4. The software I'm writing should hopefully be runable on different
pc configurations (64k-up; 1 drive-up; b/w,composite,or high-res color monitor).
Any words-from-the-wise on methods of achieving this? I'll initially be writing
in compiled Basic, with graphics no fancier then bar graphs.
	5. Can basic (interpreted or compiled) access all 256K?

	Thanks in advance. Please mail responses to me directly and, if there is
any demand, I will digestify.
					Thanks again,
						Tom N.
	mcnc!idis!tom    or    decvax!idis!tom   or   floyd!idis!tom