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