Resource Library: Multimedia

home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search

/ Resource Library: Multimedia / Resource Library: Multimedia.iso / hypertxt / msdos / montanac / jns.027 < prev next >

Wrap

Text File | 1993-04-01 | 37KB | 578 lines

Connect! Communications Company presents [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ [ ] ] ^ [ ^ [ ^ ] ] ] [ ] ] ^ [ ^ [ ^ [[[[[[[[ ] ] [ ] ] ^ [ ^ [ ^ ] ] ] [ [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ [ ^ [ ^ [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ ] \ Magazine (c) ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDBDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDBDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD? 3 Volume II Aug 1992 3 David E. Wachenschwanz, Publisher 3(c) Copyright 1992 3 @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ ] "Serving the Houston Online Community with BBS News and Information" ^ [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ CONNECT! MAGAZINE is (c) Copyright 1992 by David E. Wachenschwanz. All Rights Reserved. This electronic magazine may be presented on-line by other Bulletin Board Systems for access by their users as long as no charge is made for such access. No part of this electronic publication may be altered, changed, amen- ded, edited or copied (except where it is copied for distribution as is) with- out the express written consent of David E. Wachenschwanz and Connect! Commun- ications Company. Published monthly and available for downloading on many Texas BBS Systems Home System: The Atomic Cafe BBS (713)530-8875 P. O. Box 720894 Houston, Texas 77072 This publication may be file requested via FidoNet at 1:106/235. Request CONNECT! (no file extension) UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM8 3 FROM THE EDITOR 3 TMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM> This issue of CONNECT! is being put together at the last minute, due to an overwhelming amount of time in July being spent in preparedness for the GOP convention being held here Houston August 17-20. I am deeply involved in my company's participation of the event, and chances are next month's CONNECT! may be put together in much the same manner. As a result, there is no BBS SPOTLIGHT this month, and there may not be one next month. This feature is NOT being shelved, but will continue as soon as I have time to do it properly. If possible, we will endeavor to have a BBS SPOTLIGHT for September's issue, but right now it looks like that may be pushing it a bit. We're sorry for the interruption of normal services, but I don't make a dime publishing CONNECT! so it must take a back seat when compet- ing for my time with my real job. CONNECT! is a spare-time venture. The Atomic Cafe BBS (713-530-8875) is now a full fledged member of the FidoNet, our address being 1:106/235. The Houston Area 713 BBS List and this publication, CONNECT! Magazine both can be "file requested" over the FidoNet as HOUBBS (no extension) and CONNECT! (no extension). Although it was a hair-pulling experience setting up a Fido node on TBBS, all went well and we're receiving hundreds of echo mail messages a day. My thanks to all the guys in net 106, and especially Justin Marquez, Bob Davis, Lefty Frizzell, Bob Juge, and Ken Nelson (who allowed me to crash-test messages to him and also provided valuable assistance with kick-starting BinkleyTerm). Also thanks to Rick Kosick of Comp-U-Mall in Philadelphia for his expert help in making TBBS do something that it would rather not do. ONE BBSCON will be taking place this month in Denver. All the major BBS software authors will be in attendance, along with third party developers and BBS-related businesses like GW & Associates, BBS Technologies, Teleflora, and many more. U. S. Robotics, Hayes, Digiboard and other leading hardware firms will also be on hand to show off their wares. Probably the biggest benefit of the whole thing will be specific workshops by BBS authors. Phil Becker of eSoft will be teaming with BOARDWATCH editor Jack Rickard for the "Phil and Jack Show" that will offer advice on setting up and running a BBS as a profitable business. Alan Bryant of eSoft will hold a seminar on dBase programming techniques. And Mustang Software (makers of the popular WILDCAT! BBS program) will show off their new multi-line software and all the new possibilities associated with that. And much more. If you can attend, do so. It should be a great time in the Mile High City. Our usual news from science and technology from "The Hill" (Los Alamos National Laboratories) and U. S. Robotics gives us their latest financial statement. All in this month's CONNECT! Magazine. Cheers. --David E. Wachenschwanz Editor IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM; : LETTERS TO CONNECT! : HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM< Mailbox is still empty. Chickens. NOTE: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ARE WELCOME. SUBMIT A PREPARED TEXT MESSAGE IN THE BULLETIN BOARD SIG ON THE ATOMIC CAFE BBS (713-530-8875). ADDRESS YOUR MESSAGE TO SYSOP. OR IF YOU PREFER, MAIL YOUR LETTERS TO: Letters To The Editor CONNECT! Magazine P. O. Box 720894 Houston, Texas 77072 ALL LETTERS WILL BE VERIFIED PRIOR TO BEING PUBLISHED. ALL LETTERS MUST BEAR THE FULL NAME AND DAYTIME PHONE NUMBER OF SENDER, ALTHOUGH NAMES CAN BE WITHHELD ON REQUEST. MAILED LETTERS MUST BE SIGNED IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE CRITERIA. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM8 3 NEWS BRIEFS 3 TMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM> U.S. ROBOTICS SALES UP 44% FOR THIRD QUARTER EARNINGS UP RECORD 64% SKOKIE, Illinois -- July 22, 1992 -- U.S. Robotics, Inc. (NASDAQ:USRX) announced record sales of $28.5 million and record earnings of $2.8 million for the third quarter ended July 3, 1992. Revenues for the quarter were $28.5 million, an increase of 44% over the $19.8 million for the same quarter of the previous year. Net income for the third quarter increased 64% to $2.8 million, from $1.7 million for the same period of fiscal 1991. Earnings per share for the quarter were $.26 on 10,945,000 weighted average shares outstanding compared to $.21 per share on 8,317,000 shares for the same quarter of the prior year. Revenues for the nine months increased 42% to $81.4 million, from $57.2 million in the corresponding period in fiscal 1991. Net income advanced 43% to $7.8 million, from $5.5 million for the year earlier period. Earnings per share were $.72 on 10,850,000 weighted average shares outstanding for the nine months ended July 3, 1992 compared with $.56 on 9,825,000 shares in the prior period. "Our performance in the third quarter reflects consistent growth in the international marketplace and the continued strength in the organizational desktop and system level products. In addition with the release of several new products including new modem products with facsimile capabilities, we believe we are well-positioned for continued growth," said Casey Cowell, U.S, Robotics Chairman, President and CEO. "I am particularly pleased with the record results in light of the competitive environment in the data communications marketplace." U.S. Robotics, Inc., (NASDAQ:USRX), is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of data communications systems and products. Both corporate headquarters and manufacturing operations are based in Skokie, Ill. U.S. Robotics owns and operates Miracom Technology Ltd., Slough, England, and U.S. Robotics, S.A., Lille, France. The company markets its products to business, industry, government agencies and original equipment manufacturers. IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM; : NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF : : SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM< LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIST NAMED U.S. ADVISER TO RUSSIAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 30, 1992--A Los Alamos National Laboratory arms control expert has been appointed as the U.S. member of the scientific advisory committee for the newly established institute that will employ nuclear weapons scientists from the former Soviet Union. Edward Dowdy will review scientific proposals for the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow. Dowdy said the center will provide non-military research opportunities for scientists whose careers had focused on the design and development of weapons of mass destruction. Most of the scientists at the center will come from Arzamas-16 and Chelyabinsk-70, the Russian counterparts of Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories. "The scientific advisory committee expects to receive proposals across a broad spectrum of scientific projects aimed at enhancing the economy and helping remedy some of the ecological disasters in the former Soviet Union," Dowdy said from Washington, D.C. Dowdy went to Washington in January as science adviser to Victor Alessi, director of the office of arms control and nonproliferation at the Department of Energy. Dowdy now is on assignment from DOE to the U.S. State Department as senior science adviser to Robert Gallucci, who is the assistant secretary of state for politico-military affairs. Among the topics on which researchers at the International Science and Technology Center probably will focus are environmental monitoring, nuclear power plant safety, alternative energy sources, magnetic fusion and basic research, Dowdy said. "One of the chief objectives of the center is to form collaborations among weapons scientists and non-weapons scientists in the former Soviet Union and their counterparts in the West," Dowdy said. "The center will seek to establish an appreciation for Western scientific practices in the Russian weapons scientists and bring them closer to the rest of the world scientific community." The center is being established with $75 million from the United States, Japan and the European Community. The U.S. contribution is coming from the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991. Dowdy said Russian and other scientists will send research proposals to the center's office in Moscow. After initial review, the office will forward the proposals to members of the advisory committee, who will arrange for formal review by an international committee of experts. Dowdy said he would review some proposals himself in subjects where he feels qualified to do so. Dowdy helped negotiate the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, served as science adviser to the START delegation and chairman of the START treaty's notification protocol working group. He was a member of the first session of the treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission. At Los Alamos, he worked as manager of the treaty verification technology development program. He also served as leader for groups at Los Alamos responsible for such areas as development of nuclear materials safeguards and assay techniques, nuclear reactor critical assemblies design and operations, nuclear emergency response techniques development and operations, and nuclear weapons intrinsic radiation measurement methods development. He holds master's and doctorate degrees in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University, as well as bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. Dowdy has served on the graduate faculties for nuclear engineering at the University of Missouri and Texas A&M University. He holds four patents and is the author of numerous publications. LOS ALAMOS DESIGNS ROBOT FOR USE IN GENETICS RESEARCH LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 28, 1992--A robot developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory frees humans from some of the time-consuming work associated with genetics research. The robot will speed completion of the Human Genome Project--an international research effort to decode all of the genetic information present in human deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. "Much of the laboratory work for the Human Genome Project is tedious and repetitive," said Patricia Medvick of Los Alamos' Sensor Systems and Robotics Section. The robot automates a process known as gridding, which transfers bacteria cells cloned for known fragments of human DNA from their storage sites to specific locations on a grid. "After an initial set-up procedure, the robot can run unattended for two-and-one-half hours, " Medvick said. "The previous gridding mechanism needed constant attendance." Medvick discussed the gridding robot at the recent Science Innovation '92 conference in San Francisco. Robert Hollen and Tony Beugelsdijk, also of Los Alamos' Sensor Systems and Robotics Section, David Bruce and Edgar Hildebrand of Los Alamos' Biochemistry and Structural Biology Group and Larry Deaven of Los Alamos' Center for Human Genome Studies are co-developers. The robot arm rises above its rectangular base like a small crane and operates on an L-shaped axis. A tool gripper slides up and down the arm to lift and release tools, perform the gridding task, sterilize tools and move containers of cell colonies. Geneticists command the robot with a personal computer, using object-oriented software. To transfer cells containing known fragments of DNA, the robot picks up a tool that resembles a metal hairbrush and dips the tool's 96 steel pins into a plastic microtiter plate with 96 wells that contain cell colonies. The robot arm then swings over a nylon membrane and the tool gripper lowers the pins onto the membrane. The pins deposit a few cells from each colony on the membrane. The robot re-sterilizes the pins and swings back to the next microtiter plate for another transfer operation. "Each microtiter plate is labeled with a bar code, which directs the pins to a specific location on the membrane," Medvick said. A completely gridded membrane has 16 x 96, or 1,536 dots of cells. "Each dot of DNA represents a known fragment of human chromosome 16," she noted. Next, the bacteria grow for 48 hours, which amplifies the cloned DNA. The geneticists then chemically treat the cells to break them open and expose their DNA. The process glues the naked DNA to the membrane. The geneticists use the gridded membranes as filters to trap and identify unknown DNA sequences. They put the filter in a chemical bath that encourages joining, or hybridization, between similar DNA sequences. They label a piece of unknown DNA with radioactivity and add the labeled DNA to the bath containing the filter. They remove, rinse and cover the filter with photographic film to record any hybridized DNA. Radioactivity exposes spots on the film wherever unknown DNA fragments have joined with known DNA fragments. "From the pattern of 'hits' they can identify the unknown fragment," she said. Ultimately, scientists will have filters representing the entire human genome. "Scientists will be able to walk into a genetics laboratory with an unknown fragment of DNA and have geneticists identify its composition and origin," Medvick predicted. "Scientists also will be able to determine the difference between a disease-causing gene and its normal counterpart." LOS ALAMOS SETS UP MATERIALS MODELING PROJECT LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 20, 1992--An engineer at a small aerospace company comes up with an idea for a light-weight, corrosion-resistant alloy that can withstand the high temperatures and stresses experienced by the turbine blades in jet aircraft engines. The engineer is faced with two choices. He can synthesize the material, then characterize and test it, a costly and time-consuming process. Or he can try to predict how the material might behave, which might show that his material won't meet his needs. Such predictions require the help of chemists, experts in atomic-level physics, materials theorists and programmers who can use supercomputers to simulate his material. Los Alamos National Laboratory's newly formed Materials Modeling Project offers the resources the engineer would need to decide whether to pursue his idea or go back to the drawing board. Established by the Center for Materials Science and Industrial Partnership Center, the modeling project will use Los Alamos' multi-disciplinary capabilities to meet immediate industrial needs and plan long-term research that will help in the development of new and improved materials. "The traditional experimental approach to materials development through chemical synthesis, processing and characterization can't keep up with today's needs," said project leader Richard LeSar of the Center for Materials Science. "The complexity of the materials problems facing industry demand a unified effort by many researchers with a wide variety of skills," LeSar continued. "We're witnessing the birth of a new approach, in which advanced modeling techniques and computer technology may allow us to calculate the properties of new materials much faster and less expensively than an experiment." Although Los Alamos has a wide variety of modeling capabilities and the world's most advanced scientific computing facilities, LeSar said these strengths need to be focused on solving specific problems in brittleness, ductility, behavior at various temperatures and pressures--the full spectrum of materials properties. "Companies may be interested in predicting how new materials will behave in macroscopic applications, but such predictions depend on our ability to examine material behavior at the sub-microscopic level," LeSar said. For example, to determine how brittle a new material might be, Los Alamos researchers could build up a model of how the material forms, atom by atom. >From that model, they could examine how the atoms combine to form grains, then simulate how different processing methods affect the locations, sizes and formations of the grains. Then they could examine how those grains affect the fracture properties of the material. Such simulations might show the best way to reduce brittleness in processing the material. The project will encourage Laboratory-wide cooperation in advanced modeling of complex problems in the synthesis, processing, structure and properties of materials, LeSar said. The chief goals are twofold: developing a "tool box" of working computer models and techniques that will establish Los Alamos as a national resource for new industrial programs in materials; and producing an engineering test bed that will integrate the models on advanced computers, such as the recent use of the Laboratory's Connection Machines 2 supercomputer to simulate dynamic fractures in ceramic composites. LeSar said the modeling project is a natural outgrowth of Los Alamos' active materials theory effort. Among successful past and current programs are: * "materials by design" simulations of material properties at the atomistic level, * models of how composite materials fracture, based on models of microstructural evolution developed in part at the Laboratory; * computational models of the mechanical responses of metals; * other projects including characterization of the electronic structure of materials, theories of material behavior under extreme pressure conditions and the synthesis of thin films. The Materials Modeling Project will sponsor workshops at which industry representatives can discuss their problems in developing specific materials. Workshop participants will identify the critical scientific issues for multidisciplinary Laboratory programs aimed at solving those problems. The first of these workshops, "Modeling of Metal Matrix Composites and Multiphase Materials" is scheduled for October 28-30. Organizing the workshop is Prof. David Embury of McMaster University, who is on leave to Los Alamos as the Center for Materials Science's B.T. Matthias Scholar. The second workshop, on "Materials for Electronic Applications," will take place next spring under the leadership of Alan Bishop, leader of the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group. The modeling project also will sponsor regular half-day overviews of specific modeling methods that should increase involvement by Los Alamos researchers in all aspects of materials modeling. The project will have internal and external advisory councils. LOS ALAMOS IMPROVES OCEAN CLIMATE MODELS LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 21, 1992--Predicting the effects of global ocean currents on climate should become more reliable, thanks to recent research in applied mathematics and massively parallel computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Laboratory scientists will discuss their work on computer-based models that simulate the currents, temperature, pressure, salinity and other factors affecting ocean dynamics in two papers presented at the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics this week in Los Angeles. "Los Alamos' global climate research and efforts to develop a more powerful ocean model are exciting and important to applied mathematics and computational science," said James M. Hyman, chairman of the meeting's organizing committee and leader of the Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Group at Los Alamos. "This work fits perfectly the theme of this year's conference, which is mathematical modeling of large-scale physical systems," Hyman added. In separate sessions at the conference, Los Alamos researchers will present two approaches to improving simulations of ocean dynamics: Darryl Holm and Roberto Camassa discuss their efforts to develop equations describing the effects of small-scale, high-frequency energetic waves and eddies on global currents; and John Dukowicz, Rick Smith and Bob Malone describe numerical methods for massively parallel computers of models that represent the fully three-dimensional effects of these high-energy waves and eddies on global ocean currents. The ocean strongly influences global climate over decades and even centuries by absorbing and emitting heat and carbon dioxide. Models that simulate ocean dynamics and their impact on global climate are computationally more demanding than the better-known atmospheric models. That's because most of the kinetic energy in the atmosphere resides at the spatial scale of large storm fronts (hundreds of miles long), while the major component of kinetic energy in the ocean is at much smaller, but highly energetic scales, in the form of eddies and waves that require at least 10 times finer resolution. But better ocean models are crucial to integrated atmospheric-ocean models with which scientists hope someday to predict potentially dangerous changes in the earth's climate. Standard ocean models treat the ocean surfaces as a "rigid lid," thereby removing some of the effects of small-scale, high-energy features. These models assume that the density of the ocean varies with depth, but ignore surface wave effects. Trying to model such effects can slow calculations by as much as two-thirds and make models less stable. "The rigid lid approximation distorts the effect of surface pressures on ocean dynamics. Without modeling some aspects of the small-scale, high-frequency waves and eddies, we can't know whether our global oceanic models are truly reliable," Holm said. "We want to understand in much greater detail these small-scale elements, where rapid variations are creating a bottleneck that slows down the computer model," he continued. "We believe that eventually we will be able to represent reliably the average effects of these high-frequency elements on larger-scale, low-frequency elements." Waves, eddies and variations in temperature, pressure and salinity produce global convection and circulation currents that move warm water from the equator to the poles, chiefly through the southern oceans and along the western coasts of Asia and the Americas. These currents act like conveyor belts for heat and mass and have a profound impact on global climate. "They're responsible for heat transport that strongly affects climate and they involve wind-driven convection, a pretty delicate, unstable business," Holm said. Holm and his colleagues are developing models that can incorporate a variety of effects, such as variations in pressure, density and temperature at different depths and the imbalances that produce wave dispersion. He said the non-linear effects that cause waves to form, mount to a peak and break over can be balanced by the tendency of energy to disperse in surface waves and eddies. Los Alamos is developing new sets of non-linear equations based on turbulence theory that describe how the ocean's kinetic energy establishes this balance. Dukowicz said he and his co-researchers are approaching the same problem from a computational science, rather than an applied mathematics, approach. "In the process of improving existing models so they will run on massively parallel machines, we've found ways to improve both their efficiency and their resolution," Dukowicz said. In current global models, the highest degree of resolution is about one-half degree of latitude by one-half degree of longitude, or roughly 3,000 square kilometers. Improvements in those models at Los Alamos will double the resolution when the models are running on the Laboratory's new Connection Machine-5 supercomputer. "We have improved the algorithms so they give a more accurate treatment of coastal and ocean bottom topography, which has a huge impact on the dynamics of the major ocean currents, " Dukowicz said. By eliminating the rigid lid approximation, Dukowicz said his group has improved the way the standard ocean models run on massively parallel machines. Although the new models developed by Holm and his colleagues aren't encoded yet, Dukowicz and Holm hope the new models will yield even greater efficiency. "By examining this high-energy mode, we're gaining new insight into how these models work, and we're creating highly resolved versions of the models," Dukowicz said. Los Alamos is working with ocean modelers at other institutions to implement some of these new methods in widely used ocean models. Funding for much of the global climate research comes from the Department of Energy's Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics, and Model Physics Program and the President's High-Performance Computing and Communications Program. Supporting the authors of the papers are Len Margolin and George Nickel of Los Alamos' Physics Division, and staff of the Theoretical Division and Advanced Computing Laboratory. ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD? 3 SYSOP MODEM DISCOUNT PROGRAMS: V.32 and V.32bis MODEMS 3 CDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD4 3 Vendor Support BBS SysOp Price List 3 CDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD4 3 ATI V.32 (416)756-4591 $350 $699 3 3 Cardinal 9600V42 none $269 $699 3 3 CompuCom V.32bis (408)738-4990 $399 $539 3 3 CompuCom V.32 (408)738-4990 $229 $339 3 3 Galaxy Networks UFO V.32bis (818)998-1758fax $299 $999 3 3 GVC SM-96V V.32 (201)579-2380 $379 $695 3 3 GVC FM-9696/144V V.32bis (201-579-2380 $329 $599 3 3 Hayes Ultra 144 V.32bis (800)874-2937 $599 $1199 3 3 Hayes Ultra 96 V.32 (800)874-2937 $399 $999 3 3 Intel 14.4EX V.32bis (503)645-6275 $399 $699 3 3 Intel 9600EX V.32 (503)645-6275 $299 $599 3 3 Multi-Tech MT932BA V.32 (612)785-9875 $435 $869 3 3 Multi-Tech MT1432BA V.32bis (612)785-9875 $450 $899 3 3 Practical Peripherals PM9600SA (818)706-2467 $339 $399 3 3 Practical Peripherals PM14400FXSA(818)706-2467 $250 $549 3 3 SupraFAXModem V.32bis none $249.95 $399.953 3 SupraFAXModem V.32 none $199 $299 3 3 Telebit T3000 V.32bis none $399 $949 3 3 Twincom 9600 V.32 none $279 $299 3 3 U. S. Robotics DS V.32bis (708)982-5092 $499 $1295 3 3 Ven-Tel V.32 (408)922-0988 $439 $699 3 3 Viva 9624e V.32 (805)499-9649 $249 $349 3 3 ZyXEL U-1496E V.32bis (714)693-0762 $370 $695 3 @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY Tell our advertisers that you heard about them in CONNECT! Magazine! --advertisement-- IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM; : MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK! : : : : T H E A T O M I C C A F E : : Electronic On-Line Information : : and Entertainment Service : LMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM9 : 4 9600 V.32/V.42bis lines at : : (713)530-8875 : LMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM9 : 2 14,400 V.32bis/V.42bis lines : : at (713)530-0558 : LMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM9 : 3.9 GIGAbytes of software : : On-Line with NIGHTOWL (Tm) : :CD-ROM under Master File Mgr(Tm): LMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM9 : ON-LINE MAGAZINES SUCH AS: : : : : **BOARDWATCH MAGAZINE** : : **USA TODAY DECISIONLINE** : : **CONNECT! MAGAZINE** : : **DALLAS-FORT WORTH ON LINE** : IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM< HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM; : $20 per quarter ULTRA-TRIVIA 3 CHESS CHALLENGE $45 per year : : 90 MINUTES ON-LINE PER DAY UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS *FREE MULTILINE CHAT* : : CONNEX (Tm) The Connection Exchange Matchmaker/Biography System : : (713)530-8875 V.32 *Limited FREE service* (713)530-0558 V.32bis : : FidoNet *THE ATOMIC CAFE BBS IS AN ASP APPROVED BBS* 1:106/235 : HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM< UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM8 3 CONNECT! SPOTLIGHT: 3 3 BBS SYSTEM OF THE MONTH 3 TMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM> Every month, we thought it would be nice to spotlight a different BBS system from the Houston Area 713 BBS List (c) to better acquaint the Houston on-line community with the various features, services and philosophies that make up a particular BBS. We'd like to feature yours. Contact David Wachenschwanz at THE ATOMIC CAFE BBS, 713-530-8875; or via FidoNet at 1:106/235; or write to CONNECT! Magazine, P. O. Box 720894, Houston, Texas 77072 for more information. This month, due to time restrictions we will not be spotlighting any particular BBS. Instead, we welcome the following NEW systems to the Houston Area 713 BBS List: SYSTEM NAME PHONE MAX BPS SOFTWARE SYSTEM TYPE HOURS A Womyn's Line........840-8160 19,200 Maximus DOS 24 Altair IV BBS.........947-2253 2400 Spitfire DOS 24 Americans For Perot...326-ROSS 2400 TriBBS DOS 24 Armadillo Ranch.......550-7918 2400 TAG DOS 7am-10pm Chameleon.............526-1434 2400 GBBS APL 24 D & D Computers.......449-7680 9600 TAG DOS 24 Doc's Little BBS......331-0874 2400 Spitfire DOS 24 Double Bogey..........556-0735 9600 Telegard DOS 24 G's BBS...............586-7751 14,400 GT Power DOS 24 General Node 2, The...437-0723 14,400 PC Board DOS 24 Houston Lifestyles BBS586-9151 2400 Galacti DOS 24 Ice Box, The..........855-2742 2400 TAG DOS 9am-5pm King's Throne, The....980-7733 2400 Wildcat! DOS 24 Milliways BBS.........443-7878 38,400 WWIV DOS 24 Mr.Wobbet's W. World..493-2561 2400 WWIV MAC 24 New Atomic Brain,The..880-5469 2400 Telegard DOS 24 Organic BBS...........487-9668 2400 TriTel DOS 24 Perfect General, The..421-2405 14,400 Wildcat! DOS 5pm-6am Pig's Trough, The.....629-7908 2400 Spitfire DOS 24 Platinum BBS, The.....667-4215 2400 RBBS DOS 24 Private Sector, The...342-7609 9600 Waffle DOS 24 RADIO_FREE_HOUSTON....479-3323 9600 Maximus DOS 24 RaveSignal............992-2193 2400 Wildcat! DOS 24 Round Table, The......942-7607 14,400 Maximus DOS 24 SouthWest Tower BBS...772-8461 2400 RemAcess DOS 24 Stadium Club, The.....458-2037 14,400 Maximus OS2 24 Tomball Connection,The370-2156 2400 Spitfire DOS 24 Trading Post, The.....493-0477 2400 Tritel DOS 24 USS Pegasus...........777-0821 9600 Opus DOS 24 Valley Soft BBS.......893-2851 2400 WWIV DOS 24 Virtual Underground...488-2438 38,400 PBX DOS 24 Void, The.............367-5558 2400 Telegard DOS 7am-9pm Vomit Comett, The.....484-3050 2400 Telegard DOS 24 W.A.B.................488-0613 2400 Sterling AMG 24 Windows Mania BBS.....558-8707 2400 Wildcat! DOS 24 Womb, The.............597-9662 19,200 Spitfire DOS 24 Pass this electronic magazine on to a friend, or upload to your favorite BBS. If you print out a hard copy, remember to recycle and save a tree! [[[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[ [ ] ] ^ [ ^ [ ^ ] ] ] [ ] ] ^ [ ^ [ ^ [[[[[[[ ] ] [ ] ] ^ [ ^ [ ^ ] ] ] [ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [ ^ [ ^ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[[ ] \ Magazine (c) CONNECT! Magazine is Copyright 1992 by David Wachenschwanz ALL RIGHTS RESERVED