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Volume 2, Number 1 6 Jan 85

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1. HOT NEWS Article Submission Submitting an Article 2. COLUMNS Warning? 800 for Fido! 800 number As a followup to some of the suggestions raised ... 3. FOR SALE 7% over Wholesale Special offer to all FIDO sysops 4. WANTED One used Gavilan computer 5. FIDOLIST: HUMAN READABLE

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Volume 2, Number 2 16 Jan 85

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1. HOT NEWS Article Submission Submitting an Article 2. COLUMNS Distribution of the newsletter & misc. comments Fido of the South has been running for about 2 years ... "PLEASE...GET ME A MODEM FOR CHRISTMAS." The Graf Spee is a system I set up on my Compaq Plus ... 3. FOR SALE 7% over Wholesale Special offer to all FIDO sysops I have 2 new 20 meg hard drives which are external ... 4. WANTED One used Gavilan computer

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Volume 2, Number 3 21 Jan 85

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1. HOT NEWS 2. NEWS Article Submission Submitting an Article 3. COLUMNS Anchor Signalman Mk XII DTR fix In November, Gil Hendrix, a service representive ... Verbosity (an editorial) I am writing this article in the hopes that I may ... I have been thinking about how it costs $30.00 per ... Killer upload file Hot Stuff We've Heard Typesetting Without Troff UX-Basic: The Product ** Copy II PC. Computer Industry Academy Awards: An Interactive Video Product Family From Visage Inc. ... BBS News Round-up MicroPro released a new version of WordStar last year ... 4. NOTICES As a matter of brief introduction, I am Bill Macneill, .. 5. FOR SALE I have 2 new 20 meg hard drives which are external ... Introducing: *** The Modem *** 6. WANTED One used Gavilan computer

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Volume 2, Number 4 4 Feb 85

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1. HOT NEWS 2. NEWS Article Submission 3. COLUMNS BASCOM Bugs Computer vs. Family HP LaserJet Printer Letters to the editor Met-Chem International Price List NetWare - Column 1 - 1/28/85 A suggestion for naming Fido News Files FIDONET: In Public Domain, It Offers More Than Other ... We are a company which provides computer consulting, ... The Adventures of WANGMASTER 4. NOTICES As a matter of brief introduction, I am Bill Macneill, .. 5. FOR SALE I have 2 new 20 meg hard drives which are external ... We now have the PC to XT upgrade chip in stock for ... The Pacesetter Company 6. WANTED One used Gavilan computer

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Volume 2, Number 5 19 Feb 85

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1. HOT NEWS 2. NEWS Article Submission 3. COLUMNS I figured out that what I initially interpreted as ... NetWare Column #2 Micro-Talker 1 Multi User Voice Mail System Fido and AT&T 6300 + Prometheus 1200 Modem Sysops with high FidoNet node numbers 'Bug' in File.bbs Reader Message Routing Failures or What Do You Do When a Host .. 4. NOTICES As a matter of brief introduction, I am Bill Macneill, .. 5. FOR SALE I have 2 new 20 meg hard drives which are external ... For Sale! Turbo 10 Hard Disk Sale 6. WANTED One used Gavilan computer Info on Tandon 8 Inch Drive

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Volume 2, Number 6 1 March 85

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1. HOT NEWS 2. NEWS Article Submission FIDO 357 is proud to announce the availability to any ... 3. COLUMNS Setting Up a Fido BBS on a Sanyo Computer To all Fido Sysops interested in making extra money The Adventures of WANGMASTER The purpose of this article is to discuss the merits ... SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NETWORK - (Effective 2 FEB 85) Response to an editorial concerning military retirement FREEWARE - A Morally Bankrupt Concept Big hard disks on the AT FIDO BBS and the Sanyo 550 Series Computer Misc... 4. NOTICES As a matter of brief introduction, I am Bill Macneill, .. I am looking for programs to convert text files to ... THE UNDERDOG MAGAZINE 5. FOR SALE Salvation is at hand for all of you Sysops who run ... 6. WANTED One used Gavilan computer Info on Tandon 8 Inch Drive

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Volume 2, Number 7 15 March 85

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1. HOT NEWS 2. NEWS Article Submission Change of Command 3. COLUMNS Usenet, uucp, etc. Oops... Recently, here in Cherry Hill, NJ, a BBS system by ... !! S P E C I A L E D I T I O N !! or The Complete ... 4. FOR SALE M E M O R Y C H I P S A L E ! Now a freebie! A dissertation on the differences ...

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Volume 2, Number 8 1 April 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Article Submission The New Kid on the Block 2. NEWS Upgrade your FidoBBS system to multi-tasking for less ... AT hard disk rumors I'm sure that all Rainbow owners have found as I have ... I have several scare stories lately about using ... First of all thanks to Tom Jennings for all the ... 3. FOR SALE A S C / U S C O M P U T E R P R I C E C L U B We have a confession to make. We've been holding out ... Seems like everyone and their cousins are in the chip ... ADS answering service is the FIRST service to run ... 4. WANTED Does anyone know of any utilities for converting RBBS ... 5. NOTICES *** UPCOMING EVENTS ***

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Volume 2, Number 9 14 April 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Article Submission Progress and Changes 2. NEWS Kent Leonard brought up the point "What did we learn ... Creating FIDO Source Yes! The NodeBook project is still going strong! FIDO Demonstration Public Domain Fido Project After 5 previous delays and one this morning, the ... This document describes how to install 640k of RAM on ... Public Domain Fido 3. FOR SALE A *Brand new* "BABY BLUE" Z80 card for the IBM PC. Fujitsu 41256 150nS 256K RAMS.... $9.99 each any quan. Weeee!!! We all have chips for sale!!!!!! THE COMPUTER FARM is a factory direct distributor for ... 4. NOTICES *** Calendar of Events ***

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Volume 2, Number 10 22 April 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Article Submission Special Edition 2. NEWS Unfortunately there isn't enough time to give you ... New Look for FidoNet Fidonews has managed to obtain an exclusive interview ... 3. FOR SALE New IBM-PC video craps game 4. WANTED Anecdotes about FIDO from SYSOPS who have "seen it all". *** Calendar of Events ***

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Volume 2, Number 11 29 April 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Article Submission Big News 2. NEWS California Senate Bill 1012 Software and Disk Swapping Fido re-write Currently, I run Fido as a semi-private system ... Hayes Smartmodem 2400 review 3. COLUMNS Pat Travers, a local Florida rock musician has a song ... 4. WANTED If anyone has a bulletin board devoted to genealogy, ... 5. NOTICES Our mistake *** Calendar of Events ***

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Volume 2, Number 12 6 May 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Any Day Now 2. NEWS Sensible Piracy Protection Freeware **** Reply to Fido 464 and all IBM BBS Fido sysops **** Modula-2 PC-Rockland, located in scenic South Nyack, New York ... Running Fido on the Sanyo 550 A Telecommunications Dictionary 3. COLUMNS Thank you for your interest in becoming a service ... 4. FOR SALE USRobotics Courier 2400 5. NOTICES *** Calendar of Events ***

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Volume 2, Number 13 13 May 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Electronic Hate 2. NEWS *** PROBLEM REPORT: Microsoft Macro Assembler v. 3.0 *** NETWORK CHANGES and FIDO VERSION 10I IBM PC-AT Failures. Again.... Watchdog -- The ultimate in system security -- 05/08/85 3. COLUMNS Fido Source Code 4. FOR SALE We now have our Lottery Analyzer available for public ... I have made up a Fido 'business' card displaying the ... 5. NOTICES PSHIFT Piracy Warning *** Calendar of Events ***

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Volume 2, Number 14 20 May 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Fido National User Directory 2. NEWS The latest PC Magazine talked of our beloved comm... For Rainbow owners/users only! More on 2400 baud modems 3. COLUMNS Recently I just purchased an IBM AT, after a few days ... 4. NOTICES *** Calendar of Events *** ROGUE Piracy Warning

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Volume 2, Number 15 27 May 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Waiting for Nets 2. NEWS Re: TPSECRET.BAS This is a copy of a letter I sent to Inforworld on an ... Can anyone help! How do you hookup (setup) a MICOM ... 4. NOTICES *** Calendar of Events ***

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Volume 2, Number 16 3 June 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Closer and Closer 2. NEWS Over the past several months there have been some ... "Compu-peater" a new concept The Duties of a Network or Region Coordinator As many of you know, Tim Meyers has written a Fido ... Computer Conference - Maui Hawaii Obtaining a Fido Net Number Fidonet Regions Fido Message Security Loophole New Fido Utility Software 3. NOTICES Fidonews Bugs *** Calendar of Events ***

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Volume 2, Number 17 10 June 1985

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1. EDITORIAL This Is It! 2. NEWS Coordinators List GO! GO! GO! -- June 12 is IT ******* WARNING ABOUT DOWNLOADING EXECPCT4.LBR/LQR ... Pay? You must be kidding! 3. WANTED Help Wanted 4. NOTICES *** Calendar of Events *** The First FidoBaby

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Volume 2, Number 18 17 June 1985

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1. EDITORIAL In Defense of Copy Protection In view of the expansion of Fido, I would like to ... 2. NOTICES Piracy Warning *** Calendar of Events ***

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Volume 2, Number 19 24 June 1985

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1. EDITORIAL The Answer to Copy Protection 2. NEWS I am unhappy, is anyone else out there unhappy? I am ... The first call Hello from Fido 17/35 3. FOR SALE The Computer Farm now carries Hard Drives for the ... Lotto-----Lotto-----Lotto-----Lotto-----Lotto 4. NOTICES Fidonews Bugs *** Calendar of Events ***

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Volume 2, Number 20 1 July 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Towards Better Communications 2. NEWS Computer Hacker Convicted of Tapping ARPANET A few FIDONEWS issues back, someone mentioned the ...

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Volume 2, Number 21 8 July 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Computer English 2. NEWS Response to Bruce Lomasky Micro-Systems Software Inc. recently began shipping a ... Master Fido Userlist 3. NOTICES Fidonews Bugs

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Volume 2, Number 22 15 July 1985

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1. NEWS Remeber the days when the only people we really had ... Programming Hints This is simply a request for information. I am ... Life and times, of a PIRATE Users have rights too 2. COLUMNS Gnawing the Bone 3. FOR SALE Graphics board option and GSX-86 software 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 23 22 July 1985

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1. EDITORIAL User Unsupported Software 2. NEWS A Fido BBS with a mission Fido V10j Documentation correction. Running Fido with MultiLink News Flash! For about eight months in Bryan/College Station has ... A few Ideas about the rewrite of FIDO. Sauntering Sysops Batman... The following text is from the Sex Story board RAUNCH ... 3. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 24 29 July 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Fido in the News 2. NEWS Help fight bad BBS laws - 01 The following is a sample letter that is to be copied ... FIDO Re-Write E.R.A. on Fido & FidoNet There is a wonderful, new world out there for ... 3. WANTED I am trying to find some back issues of FidoNews from ... WANTED: Cbasic2 CP/M De-Compiler 4. NOTICES Correction to National USER LIST The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 25 5 August 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Backwards vs. Upwards Compatible 2. NEWS A cry for help - Four unrelated questions BBS press service offers free issue of INFO-MAT ... Public vs. Private Bulletin Board Systems Shipuser.com IBM admits hardware flaw in PC-AT! Fido Utilities 3. NOTICES The first edition of the National Fido User List is ... The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 26 12 August 1985

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1. EDITORIAL The Dog Barks in Washington 2. NEWS More on software piracy... A Short History of Adventure Games Update on ROVER (a Fido Clone) Sam was your average 15 year old American teenager, ... Some observations on long distance phone services For those of you that use [*shudder*] Wordstar on ... 3. FOR SALE CopyX is now available 4. NOTICES It is with great sorrow that we must announce the ... The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 27 19 August 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Your Fellow Users 2. NEWS The Southern California Network (102) has renumbered ... The following was captured, from a BBS in Golden, ... Search for Data-capable Fire Departments Relentlessly ... How FidoNet Can Help Fight Against Federal ... This is one of those once upon a time letters...... This story was graded an A in English class for the ... FIDO <==> UNIX Mail 3. WANTED Because of hardware problems, we have been unable to ... 4. NOTICES Have you paid for your freeware yet? The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 28 26 August 1985

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1. EDITORIAL A Sense of Ease 2. NEWS Some Utilities I'm Looking for and Haven't Found This article has two purposes! The first one is I ... An Idea for FidoNews GTE's PC Pursuit Offers Users Electronic Links Via ... Review of Alpha Software's "Keyworks" keyboard macro ... 3. WANTED Help Wanted for SEAdog 4. NOTICES Fidonews Bugs The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 29 2 September 1985

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1. EDITORIAL There is much legislation going around to restrict ... 2. NEWS National Fidonet User Directory The Continuing Story of Linking Fire Department ... New Fido Message Renumbering Utility Available Make your PC Faster for $20.95!!! On our way to a WorldFidoNet 3. NOTICES New version of ARC The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 30 9 September 1985

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1. EDITORIAL How We Do This 2. NEWS Warning Warning Burnout Occuring!!!! Fidograms Rewrite of FIDO Documentation Announcing the first ever Fido Bulletin Board that is ... Bulletin Board Ettiquette for New Users and Old Timers BBS Laws and the Moral Majority PC Pursuit and Fido Bug in Newly Released RENUM Program An Update on the Current State of Rover 3. NOTICES An Exclusive Engagement! The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 31 16 September 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Curious Products 2. NEWS Zaxxon: A Tale of Trojan Freeware A Contest Good News! The First Computer Privacy Act! Note on overseas FIDO operation. Out of the Doghouse Interesting Things From the World of USENET 3. FOR SALE F o r S a l e Real C h e a p 4. NOTICES As of September 16, the phone number for node 109/603 ... The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 32 23 September 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Fido from the Inside 2. NEWS A C o n t e s t !!! LA50 Print Utility Buy American.....Screw N.E.C. !!! SanyoNet - Help for the lost Sanyo user. 3. COLUMNS A long time ago... on a node far, far away (from PDPvax) 4. FOR SALE !!! Attention !!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 33 30 September 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Daylight Losing Time 2. NEWS Greetings from Mike's "C" Board The UN*X Gateway is Complete! The aliens are coming! - The aliens are coming! A new Fido Network A Bit of Clarification 3. COLUMNS A long time ago... on a node far, far away (from PDPvax) 4. NOTICES Robot - Version 3.20 The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 34 7 October 1985

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1. EDITORIAL NEC SCHMEC 2. NEWS The Computer Underground - pre-publication preview A Modest Proposal *** More Regarding the NEC V20 Microprocessor Chip *** PRIVATE or PUBLIC - An ongoing debate Corporate Nets and Nodes NEC 'V' Series Processors: A review New Fido Sysop Utilities for You 3. COLUMNS A long time ago... on a node far, far away (from PDPvax) 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 35 14 October 1985

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1. EDITORIAL ARC? What's an ARC? 2. NEWS "Fido BBS Christmas Wish List (Early)" NODE NAME Contest Update I'm Tired I've always wanted to be a Sysop, and when I found ... I have to take exception to the comments about ... 3. COLUMNS A long time ago... on a node far, far away (from PDPvax) 4. FOR SALE Digital Equipment DF03-AC dual speed (300 or 1200 ... 5. WANTED WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE - (OK..Working anyway) 6. NOTICES Interruptions to Service The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 36 21 October 1985

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1. EDITORIAL The Problems of Scale 2. NEWS Programming Query ** DOS Backup Command Caution ** The Dirty Dozen Falling Back - Batch Style All right, I will ask, what happened to the newsletter? 3. COLUMNS A long time ago... on a node far, far away (from PDPvax) 4. NOTICES Have you paid for your freeware yet? Back Issues The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 37 28 October 1985

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1. EDITORIAL A New Look for Fidonews 2. NEWS Utility for Sysops Fidogram Free Telegram Service Metro-Fire Fido net/node change Brother, Can Ya Spare the Time? 3. WANTED Is Charles H. Downs out there? 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Node List Bug

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Volume 2, Number 38 4 November 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Settling In 2. NEWS The Dirty Dozen Ripping off Tom Jennings, and all of us Any Libertarians out there? 3. COLUMNS FidoNet Route Files Explained, Part 1 4. WANTED Kurzweil 4000 computer wanted 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Death and Corporate Politics A Warning to Quadram Owners

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Volume 2, Number 39 11 November 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Future Directions 2. NEWS Tom Jennings responds to Paula Giese A Request to Writers of Online Documentation Files Maple's Freeware Directory Exploited? Me? FidoGrams and Packet Radio 3. COLUMNS FidoNet Route Files Explained, Part 2 4. WANTED FIDONET info requested 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack New Board Announcement

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Volume 2, Number 40 18 November 1985

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1. EDITORIAL In Pursuit of PCs 2. NEWS Fido Distribution List GTE Telenet's PC Pursuit HELPS BBS and Fido systems Problems with Fido Utilities on an AT Utility Programs Ripoffs revisited -- What we can do 3. COLUMNS FidoNet Route Files Explained, Part 3 4. WANTED Emporia, Kansas mailing list SBC-100; Multi-user Turbo DOS 5. FOR SALE Sand rail for desert fun! 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack An Apology to GTE Change in Net Number for Austin, Texas

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Volume 2, Number 41 25 November 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Freeware, Again 2. NEWS GTE TELENET (PC Pursuit), LDX, SPRINT, MCI, AT&T My Views More PC-PURSUIT Beyond War Fido Returns--Distributes World-Wide Petition PC Pursuit for the Uninitiated Reach Out and Play! New version of SHUFFLE available 3. COLUMNS FidoNet Route Files Explained, Part 4 4. WANTED Fido's Wanted- Earn Money! Need DEC Rainbow accessories 5. NOTICES New version of ARC released The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 42 2 December 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Why Do We Do This? 2. NEWS On the Interests of Fido: A Collection Proposal History of the World Free Holiday FidoGrams IBM's Latest Tricks: Token-Ring, etc. 3. COLUMNS FASTBACK Commerical Backup Software 4. WANTED Fido Art Contest 5. FOR SALE Spiv's Great Computer Sale --These Things Must go! 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack SPECIAL NOTICE for DEC Fido Users and Sysops

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Volume 2, Number 43 9 December 1985

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1. EDITORIAL The Two Faces of Users 2. NEWS Rover, Rovermsg, Renum, and the UN*X Gateway They've struck again New Kaypro PC Announced The PC's Space Program 3. COLUMNS Why I Buy Mail Order USRobotics Courier 2400 Baud Modem Rainbow Corner 4. WANTED Fido's Wanted- Earn Money! 5. NOTICES Software Listings from BYTE Articles Available on Disk The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 44 16 December 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Tom Jennings' Trip to Europe 2. NEWS Multilink, JRam Boards, & Fido Using the FIDO sysop command `0' on sanyos. Introduce Deaf/Blind to Computers Free Fidogram Christmas Deadline 3. COLUMNS FidoNet Musings Why You Should Use A Retail Store Fido with Multilink Rainbow Corner 4. WANTED In Search of Rainbow BBS's Fido's Wanted- Earn Money! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 2, Number 45 23 December 1985

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1. EDITORIAL Fido for the Deaf/Blind 2. NEWS A Request to Writers of Online Documentation TROFF ITT XTRA USERS GROUP Software Piracy -- What We Can Do Libraries and Squeezed files: an Explanation More Sysop Utility Updates 3. COLUMNS PIBTERM Review Rainbow Corner 4. WANTED Fido's Wanted- Earn Money! 5. FOR SALE 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Looking for Jim Filgo John Epler, Where Are You?

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Volume 2, Number 46 30 December 1985

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1. EDITORIAL 110 Baud and Teletypes 2. NEWS FidoGram Ramblings More Fido rewrite ideas MEDNet - Medical FIDO Network Sanyo Questions, Answers, & Comments 3. COLUMNS Avoiding Snow on the Color Graphics Adapter FIDO Sysop's Utilities Rainbow Corner 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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