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Volume 3, Number 1 6 January 1986

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1. EDITORIAL FidoNet Policy Guide released 2. NEWS Running Fido with a Cermetek 1200 SPC Modem Fido Related Ramblings Computer Group Association Formed 3. COLUMNS Fido Utilities, What, Where and When part 1 by Henk Wevers Rainbow Corner 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Special notice to Jim Filgo Special notice to Henk Wevers

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Volume 3, Number 2 13 January 1986

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1. EDITORIAL 2400 Baud and Electronic Mail 2. NEWS Change 10MB Hard Disk cluster from 4K to 2K Improper use of Fido and life threats The latest FIDO distribution list Fido and Color Graphics Automate removal of ROBOT messages -- KILLROBT 3. COLUMNS No body language on a terminal? Lotus Bulletin Board Announcement Rainbow Corner 4. FOR SALE IBM PC/XT compatible systems - $1850 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Special notice to Jim Filgo

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Volume 3, Number 3 20 January 1986

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1. EDITORIAL FidoNet Administration 2. NEWS Modified copies of Fido documentation Fido 108/62 afflicted with FidoRot Things That Need to be Said Running a "Non-Technical" Fido ProComm support board back on-line! Some more thoughts on shareware 3. COLUMNS Printer Tips A Critique of PC Pursuit Rainbow Corner 4. WANTED Rainbow hard disk controller needed Space Coast Fido is looking for people 5. NOTICES All About ARC version 4.52 The Interrupt Stack Special notice to Jim Filgo

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Volume 3, Number 4 27 January 1986

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1. EDITORIAL THINK BEFORE YOU LEAP: About IFNA 2. NEWS Fido's Archive System The latest FIDO distribution list Some more thoughts on Shareware More on "improved" BBS systems GAGS Version 1.06 released A (Possibly) Better Way to POLL 3. WANTED Outgoing Host Accounting System Wanted ! 4. FOR SALE Libertarian E-Mail Directory 5. NOTICES Version 5.0 of ARC released The Interrupt Stack KILLROBT update MENSA National PC-SIG Forming PRGUSERS - Software Update

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Volume 3, Number 5 3 February 1986

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1. EDITORIAL In Memorium 2. NEWS The Dream is, and must remain, alive! Encryption, Public Keys and Otherwise Valentine's Day FidoGrams Don't Miss Those Calls! FidoNet Mail Help (A Plea) Fido Sysop's BBS in the making!!! TROFF, Part 2 3. COLUMNS The World of Computing: Greetings, 1986 Predictions 4. FOR SALE New hard disk/modem combo for PCjr 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Higher Education Network to Form South Bay Users Group sets up new Fido node 143/17 Please Don't Ask Florida! The Challenger

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Volume 3, Number 6 10 February 1986

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1. EDITORIAL 110 Baud and More History 2. ARTICLES Why Not to Use ANSI.SYS Looking for Old Talkies Confessions of a Fido Tyro A Suggestion For a New File Transfer Protocol A solution for using the new O(utside) command in FIDO 3. COLUMNS You Can dTUNE A Program But You Can't dTUNE a Fish Notes from Abroad 4. WANTED S.I.G administrators for Financial TeleShare. 5. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 7 17 February 1986

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1. EDITORIAL IFNA and You 2. ARTICLES Software Tools in Pascal available on Fido 143/12 Exploring MSDOS file structures Where Oh Where Can that Interrupt Be? Announcing two new newsletters Encryption, Public Keys and Otherwise XMODEM protocol benchmark 3. COLUMNS Notes from Abroad 4. FOR SALE DEC 11/23 Minicomputer for sale Entertainment Software for your PC! File Security and Secret*File 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Higher Education Net proposed New Host for MetroNet Orange County is no longer part of SoCalNet New Version of Rovermsg Available

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Volume 3, Number 8 24 February 1986

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1. EDITORIAL E-Mail Addiction 2. ARTICLES Environment Space in Fido 11t 11t Problem and Solution Fido Compatible Systems Lazy Sysops The dream is, and must remain, alive. Part II Opinion on National Mail Time Free Time Ramblings Buyers Beware! 3. COLUMNS Notes from Abroad World of Computing: IBM compatability, manual typewriters 4. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! MACRO - A powerful front-end for any language Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 9 3 March 1986

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1. EDITORIAL What's Going On Here? 2. ARTICLES Software Support Downloadable Software Demos on Fido Demo Version of the Generic Adventure Game System New NODELIST Distribution 3. COLUMNS Notes from the UK Two Utilities for reducing Disk Access Time 4. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! MACRO - A powerful front-end for any language Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack DBase III For Sale

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Volume 3, Number 10 10 March 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Is Anybody Out There? 2. ARTICLES ANSI on FIDO, Part I of III The Association To Save Madonna From Nuclear War Need Help on Expanding My System New firmware upgrade for the USR Courier 2400 Proposal: FidoNet News-Groups ProComm 2.2 Released! Adds Telink and more... Server and Daylight: Two Fido Utilities 3. COLUMNS The View from the Top; Help Nodes 4. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! MACRO - A powerful front-end for any language Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Fidonet PCNews and Fidonet Languages USERFILE - USER.BBS flexible file lister /Allen Miller

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Volume 3, Number 11 17 March 1986

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1. EDITORIAL The Freedom to Compute 2. ARTICLES Animator, from Aegis Development - a (P)Review Using DoubleDOS and Fido 11t The latest FIDO distribution list Remote "Full Screen" Sysop Utility An Alternative to LISTGEN 3. COLUMNS Notes from Abroad 4. WANTED Optics Software Wanted 5. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Modula-2 Make Utility Public Domain Software Library Sale!! Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 12 24 March 1986

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1. EDITORIAL A BBs User's View 2. ARTICLES Astronomy SIG Four Hard Questions About Hard Disks DoubleDOS, Multiple Users, and Fido Sysop's Spare Time In Memory of the Challenger Response to Neal Curtain's article on Software Support "Stone Wall" is on the air! 3. COLUMNS Notes from Abroad 4. WANTED Help! I need YOU!! 5. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops 6. NOTICES Major BUG in Fido 11u! The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 13 31 March 1986

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1. EDITORIAL One Year Later 2. ARTICLES AIDS Information Available on Fido 114/15 CommoLore Magazine Space Shuttle Questionnaire SYSREPT Update 3. COLUMNS Notes from Abroad Rainbow Corner New MS-DOS Dac Easy-Word Under $50 4. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 14 7 April 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Trials and Tribulations of a Software Publisher 2. ARTICLES Amigo or Amiga? Computer Addiction A word from the author A New RS-232 Standard in the Making!! 3. COLUMNS Notes from Abroad Rainbow Corner The World of Computing: Super Macs and Israeli Magazines 4. WANTED ProtoCall Needs BBS Sysops! 5. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! ProtoCall National System Goes Online Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack FidoNews Bugs New release of PKSCrypt Public Key Encryption System Synchronous Modem Test Sites needed

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Volume 3, Number 15 14 April 1986

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1. EDITORIAL How to Avoid Sysop Burnout 2. ARTICLES ANSI on FIDO, Part II of III (Yes!! we do windows!!!) Fido Utility Catalog -- Help! Modifying Fido; Another Wish List Fidograms - your link to everyone! One of those Crazy Nuts Pay BBS's - another point of view Creating the political WILL to end hunger. 3. COLUMNS Notes from Abroad The Great Brown Bag Word Processor Hoax 4. FOR SALE PC Hardware for Sale Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Cartoon: Gruesome George European time by Henk Wevers Fido 17/0 (aka 138/3) uses DOUBLEDOS (1 year) New Rainbow Fido in New England

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Volume 3, Number 16 21 April 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Spaghetti Coding 2. ARTICLES Information needed on Fidonet compatible clones Automated File Relays Fido lives on a Zenith Z-100 3. COLUMNS Notes from Abroad The World of Computing: Copy protection and book reviews PC Week reviews ARC 4. WANTED Texarkana Regional Coordinator 5. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack FidoNet does NOT observe Daylight Savings Time

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Volume 3, Number 17 28 April 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Challenging the Right of an Information Industry to Exist! 2. ARTICLES DECUS Dallas FIDO On-line Kermit versus XMODEM SEAdog and Fido 3. COLUMNS Why Own a Modem? Bug Report Column (or Does Fido have Fleas?) Notes from Abroad 4. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack DoubleDOS Help Node Change FidoRead version 1.5 Now Available Aviation Net Proposed

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Volume 3, Number 18 5 May 1986

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1. EDITORIAL It Takes All Kinds 2. ARTICLES Squeeze 720k onto 360k disks on an IBM-PC/AT w/DOS 3.2 A Question of Privacy Fido Utility Catalog 3. COLUMNS User Group Presentations Notes from Abroad 4. WANTED Fido Looking for File Help 5. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack CARTOON: Gruesome George, by Bruce White

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Volume 3, Number 19 12 May 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Avoiding Computer Chauvinism 2. ARTICLES Hayes Bell/CCITT compatible modems LOGMSG - A new Utility to log Sysop comments to MAILER.LOG New Version of SYSREPT for FIDO 11v 3. COLUMNS ADVENTURE Revisted FIDO Bug Reports (Killing Fido's Fleas) Notes from Abroad 4. WANTED ECHOMAIL Information 5. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops 6. NOTICES Trojan Horse Warning! The Interrupt Stack CARTOON: Gruesome George, by Bruce White FidoMail Diplomacy Metro-Fire Fido Celebrates First Birthday Notice of Renumbering - Net 124 Sysops Passwords In Use

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Volume 3, Number 20 19 May 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Whiz Kids and Communications 2. ARTICLES Defending the Amiga Born Again Fido and Fidonet computer and modem compatibility. Happy Birthday to ... Dolores???? Employment Opportunities Listings Fido & Novell Advanced Netware Creating a Fido Interest Index Electrical Fires Comparison of Utilities 3. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Daylight Savings Time and the Mail Schedules

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Volume 3, Number 21 2 June 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Why Are They Doing This to Me? 2. ARTICLES Alpha Computer Services Does It Again with INTRCPT! Announcing the International FidoNet Conference Forcing Fido to return back to SEAdog Does a Microcomputer Managers Association Exist? Are you having problems with your modem? WelchNet Goes Private 3. COLUMNS European FIDO node for media and radio enthusiasts!! The World of Computing: Educational software and humor 4. WANTED Position Wanted 5. FOR SALE Ham Radio (Drake TR-4/CW) for sale Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack CARTOON: Gruesome George, by Bruce White

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Volume 3, Number 22 9 June 1986

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1. EDITORIAL The Right to Information 2. ARTICLES EchoMail and Host Routing: A Plea for Sanity New Utility: FIDODATE The latest FIDO distribution list Minutes - Cincinnati Fido Sysop Meeting Help a Lost Dog Find His Way The Survival Communication Forum 3. COLUMNS Notes from Abroad The World of Computing: Multitasking and multicomputers 4. WANTED Wanted: Computer Related T-Shirts 5. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack CARTOON: Gruesome George, by Bruce White Starting a Conference for the MINDSET PC

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Volume 3, Number 23 16 June 1986

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1. EDITORIAL The Faceless Community 2. ARTICLES Lets help FIDO make it! Some comments on Fido and Time The Final Word MAILCOST - OutBound Host Accounting Program PCjr's Unite! 3. COLUMNS Fido's Bug Report - or How to Kill Fido's Fleas 4. FOR SALE HP150 System For Sale Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 5. NOTICES Looking for Cromenco Computer The Interrupt Stack Deaf TTY service for the Fido network?

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Volume 3, Number 24 23 June 1986

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1. ARTICLES Silicon Mountain Fido Conference Uncooperative Fujitsu 85m What Happens When Sysops Meet EchoMail, Host Routing, and Topology Who Reads FidoNews Anyway? 2. COLUMNS FIDO's BUGS - (or how do we kill the Fleas?) 3. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack CARTOON: Gruesome George, by Bruce White

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Volume 3, Number 25 30 June 1986

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1. EDITORIAL FidoNet Business Meeting View from the Top - ECHOMAIL 2. ARTICLES An Introduction to ASCII A Warning about PC's Limited "C" TROJAN HORSE ALERT 3. COLUMNS Hard Disk Usage and Management Tips, Part 1 4. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Starting a conference for the Mindset PC Faculty Position Available - Computer Science

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Volume 3, Number 26 7 July 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Deteriorata 2. ARTICLES Freshening ARCs Before Posting for Download Employment Opportunities Notes 2 Last Embrace - a cautionary tale. Tips on QNEWUSER.BBS for Semi-Private Systems Computer worms 3. COLUMNS Hard Disk Usage and Management Tips, Part 2 Computer Industry SpotLight Job Market Research Part I 4. WANTED Auto-shuffle news letter as a scheduled event Computer Training Cruise Market Survey Wanted: Citadel sysops! 5. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! SERVTECH from Rylos Technologies 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack CARTOON: Gruesome George, by Bruce White Computer Training Market Survey Changing of the Guard in Net 135 Sched version 4 is now out

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Volume 3, Number 27 14 July 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Insider's Joke 2. ARTICLES Silicon Mountain Fido Conference War in the Falklands Mail Order Problems Review of the MultiTech MultiModem 223 Rovermsg update 3. COLUMNS Hard Disk Usage and Management Tips, Part 3 Computer Industry Spotlight Job Market Research Part II 4. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack CARTOON: Gruesome George, by Bruce White Net 105 & 146 merged!!

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Volume 3, Number 28 21 July 1986

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1. ARTICLES 2. COLUMNS Speeding Up Batch Files Computer Industry Spotlight Job Market Research Part III 3. WANTED Wanted: IBM PC programs for publication! Any large Fidos out there? 4. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack CARTOON: Generic George, by Bruce White FidoMail Diplomacy - Game F2 SPLTNEWS - A New Fido Sysop Utility

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Volume 3, Number 29 28 July 1986

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1. EDITORIAL The Faceless Crowd 2. ARTICLES DataCare Hard Disk backup Utility Notes on ConnCentral Fido Sysops Meeting Goals of the FidoNet Standards Committee EchoMail and Genealogy Starting Up Luther_NET Z-100 based Fido update 3. COLUMNS Adding RAM is easy! Computer Industry Spotlight Job Market Research Part IV 4. FOR SALE DataCare Hard Disk Utility Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Starting a Conference for Computer Genealogists WATCH OUT Genealogical Computing Seminar

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Volume 3, Number 30 11 August 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Witholding Information and Morality 2. ARTICLES In Rememberence Of... New FidoBBS from Computertown UK! An IBM-PC Compatibility Testing Program Computerfest '86 What is a Julian Date? New Outside Utility Available for Sysop's One Man's Opinion of PC-WRITE New Utility Reports Questionnaire Results New Fido BBS for Vietnam Veterans! 3. COLUMNS Subscripts, WordStar and Epson Computer Industry Spotlight 4. WANTED Wanted: IBM PC programs for publication! 5. FOR SALE Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 6. NOTICES FidoNews Bugs: The Missing Issue The Interrupt Stack CARTOON: Generic George, by Bruce White dBASE EchoMail Area

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Volume 3, Number 31 18 August 1986

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1. ARTICLES Free publicity for your BBS! USR Does It Again Yet Another Article on Shareware ALS...It Ain't Just Sex New Alternate Lifestyles Fido 2. COLUMNS Running 8-bit CP/M software under MSDOS =is= possible Computer Industry Spotlight 3. WANTED FidoNet information needed! 4. FOR SALE Get Your Baud in Shape with BDawg DataCare Hard Disk Utility Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! RAINBOW FREEWARE Published 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Need a node in Gainsville, Fla!

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Volume 3, Number 32 25 August 1986

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1. EDITORIAL What a Weekend! 2. ARTICLES A Colorado Springs Diary Butch Walker Speaks Out Josh Gordon Chimes In A Voice from the Mist Message encryption utility Poems of a Fido teenage user Dealing with Seagate 3. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Metro-Fire Fido Dines Out! Mailcost 1.4 - Outgoing Host Accounting Program Updated

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Volume 3, Number 33 1 September 1986

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1. ARTICLES The Condemned (A Poem) Cincinnati Area Bulletin Board 2. COLUMNS Are You Being Ripped Off When You Buy Diskettes? Computer Industry Spotlight 3. WANTED Wanted: IBM PC programs for publication! Looking for a Few Good CADs 4. FOR SALE DataCare Hard Disk Utility Entertainment Software for your PC! Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 34 8 September 1986

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1. ARTICLES MAILCOST--some comments from a user Quit Belly-aching Fido Utilities from 130/3 Artificial Intelligence Conference International Fido Conference - notes by Allen Miller Problem with the date format in FIDOmail Help Out Loek! More coals on the fire, or IFNA in 500 words or less IFNA/Conference Remote Reaction 2. FOR SALE Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 3. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack CARTOON: Generic George, by Bruce White New Net in Southern California - #166

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Volume 3, Number 35 15 September 1986

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1. EDITORIAL The Day FidoNews Didn't Come Out 2. ARTICLES IFNA no pay THENA no play ELSENA have a say! Portland needs help! IFNA Conference Attendee List FidoNet in the Small Towns 3. WANTED REWARD FOR ENCRYPTION DATA!!! 4. FOR SALE Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 36 22 September 1986

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1. ARTICLES HELP!!! Copyright Violation OUTER is here! A new program for the "O" command Pittsburgh Area BBS Picnic Sweden and their Vikings! An Unsolicited Testimonial Shareware Authors: Under Attack?! Who Reads FidoNews? 2. COLUMNS MS-DOS Directory Trees Computer Industry Spotlight FidoUtil ver 1.10 review 3. FOR SALE DataCare Hard Disk Utility Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack ListGen warning! Pixie and Sched update

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Volume 3, Number 37 29 September 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Amateur Radio and Electronic Mail 2. ARTICLES IFNA Expenditures The Fidogram free telegram service Country Level Support for FidoNet The View from Europe 3. COLUMNS Perfect Calc to dBASE Files Bug Column - or Does Fido Still have Fleas? Computer Industry Spotlight Review of USR Micro-Link 2400bps Modem 4. WANTED Wanted: IBM PC programs for publication! 5. FOR SALE Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 6. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack WARNING: Node List Snafu

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Volume 3, Number 38 6 October 1986

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1. ARTICLES GOOD NEWS FOR FIDO SYSOPS & USERS !!! At last, FrontDoor FIDO Interface! Curbing Shareware Vendor Abuses [Welch] Dealing with Seagate A Proposal for the Funding of IFNA 2. COLUMNS Data Files to dBASE Files A request for files 3. WANTED Device Driver needed 4. FOR SALE DataCare Hard Disk Utility Public Domain Software Library Sale!! The Structured Programming Language for PC/MS DOS Dennis Baer 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 39 13 October 1986

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1. ARTICLES Ham Radio Oriented EchoMail Conference MAGICK EchoMail Conference Profile MAILCOST Review: A Reply from the Author On the Commercial Exploitation of FidoNet 2. COLUMNS dBASE Tips - Remember these basics FidoUtil revisited 3. WANTED Wanted: "Touchstone" software 4. FOR SALE Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 40 20 October 1986

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1. ARTICLES FidoNet - One Users Opinion 2. COLUMNS 2001 - A Computer Oddity Once More Into the Void 3. FOR SALE Public Domain Software Library Sale!! 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 41 27 October 1986

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1. ARTICLES Fidonews Archived for the Commodore 64 FidoNet - One Users Opinion PrintQ - a Very Superior Way to Print Putting 640K on a 64K/256K Xt MotherBoard 2. COLUMNS The Nautical View: Part 1 3. WANTED SEAdog Mail Defaults Changed 4. FOR SALE DataCare Hard Disk Utility 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack West Coast Link for SFFAN Group

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Volume 3, Number 42 3 November 1986

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1. ARTICLES Winner of GAGS adventure game contest announced THE CHEAPEST PHONE BILL EVER! 2. COLUMNS The Nautical View: Bobsterm Pro 128 3. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 43 10 November 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Double Dawns 2. ARTICLES CompuServe's side of the story The Ultimate Utility HOW TO BUILD A BETTER NODELIST Net 109: The Saga Continues 3. COLUMNS Doug's Column Off to a GREAT start! The Nautical View: The "Open BBS" 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 44 17 November 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Wow! Fast Service! Why is this FidoNews different? 2. ARTICLES Introduction, or "What did we want to accomplish?" "How does this affect me?" IFNA ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DRAFT IFNA BY-LAWS DRAFT Recommendations to the Board of Directors What did we leave out? What if I don't like it? Special Thanks 3. COLUMNS Alternatives Alternate Method for Voting Why International? More proposed changes More Comments and Suggestions 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 45 24 November 1986

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1. EDITORIAL What's Up? 2. ARTICLES Marketing Research Questionnaires WHO "COPYRIGHTED" MY ECHOMAIL CONFERENCE? The Brian Walsh Logical T's FRAUDULENT Contest MULTITECH 224EH Keep a Running Scoreboard on your system! dBASEIII Bible project Tom Jennings, Thrasher National Vietnam Veteran's Echo-Mail Conference 3. COLUMNS Review of Boyan-C1 (a NEW term program) 4. FOR SALE Magazine On Disk for IBM PC and Compatibles The Structured Programming Language for PC/MS DOS Dennis Baer 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 46 1 December 1986

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1. EDITORIAL What Mean These By-Laws? 2. ARTICLES BackComm, A productivity tool Doug's Column FireNet IS a Reality! MSG - a SysOp's message utility Selective DOS directory search and more for Fido Sysops THE CHEAPEST PHONE BILL EVER! Let's Lease a Satellite! 3. COLUMNS Responses about FidoUtil from FidoNet Coordinator Ramblings 4. FOR SALE UNDER-C(tm) Library 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack NY MetroNet System Crash Author Needs Help

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Volume 3, Number 47 8 December 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Alternate Networks 2. ARTICLES The Australian FidoNet Association An Alternate Proposal for IFNA Bylaws Automatically Compile the Nodelist Doug's Column 3. COLUMNS Notes from the distributor Nautical View Part 4: A Review of GEOS The World of Computing: Ram-Resident programs 4. FOR SALE The Structured Programming Language for PC/MS DOS Dennis Baer 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack Net/Node # for WORD.DBF Project

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Volume 3, Number 48 15 December 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Welcome to the Big League 2. ARTICLES DoubleDOS - Is it worth the trouble? Hard Disk Security & The Trojan Horse Computerfest '86 *** IMPORTANT **** IMPORTANT **** IMPORTANT **** IMPORTANT **** HUSITA Modem information needed IFNA is not International! Thinly Disguised Ad PC-WRITE NOW CHECKS SPELLING! 3. COLUMNS Doug's Column Nautical View Part 5: BBS Security 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 49 22 December 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Time to Vote! 2. ARTICLES IFNA ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DRAFT IFNA BY-LAWS DRAFT disABLED - an Echo for the Handicap Doug's Column Registered programs and "canned" messages SEAdog Nodes Get With It! "Sponges" - Solution? 3. COLUMNS Mike Ringer's Column Nautical View Part 6: Shouldst Thou Notch Thy Disks? 4. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack For Sale: All Rights to Computer Game Program (GAGS)

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Volume 3, Number 50 22 December 1986

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1. EDITORIAL Like Pulling Teeth 2. ARTICLES THE VIEW FROM "DOWN UNDER" 3. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack

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Volume 3, Number 51 29 December 1986

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1. ARTICLES Managing a Major Network Reorganisation INVITATION TO JOIN A NEW ECHO CONFERENCE - "SOFTWARE CAREERS" Western New York Net formed 2. COLUMNS What is Baud Rate 3. WANTED Writer wanted 4. FOR SALE Magazine On Disk for IBM PC and Compatibles DISCACHE V0.01 Buy some MIDI for Christmas!! 5. NOTICES The Interrupt Stack LAPTOP echomail BBS for Whisper Reader/LEX-31 owners

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