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- Category 12, Topic 6
- Message 8 Wed Nov 05, 1986
- MICHAEL.M [-:SysOp:-] at 20:43 EST
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-
- This Sunday night at 9 pm (EST) (Thats 6 PM on the West Coast),
- our special guests will be representatives from Fiscal Information,
- specifically Mr. Lloyd Sponenburgh. Lloyd will be here to discuss
- Fiscal's revamped LT. KERNAL Hard Drive! Do attend and have your
- questions ready!
-
- The *new* LT. KERNAL is a 20 meg unit which runs in a parallel
- configuration, making it 110 times faster than a 1541. The
- drive will be manufactured/marketed through XETEC (the same folks
- that bring you those nifty printer interfaces and such).
- According to Mr. Sponenburgh, LT. KERNAL's DOS is now complete,
- and runs terrifically on either the C-64 or C-128, and they are
- working on making the unit CP/M-compatible. Other options and
- features were hinted at, so if you are in the market for a Hard Drive
- you wont want to miss this COnference!
-
- Seeya's on Sunday!
-
- -=:Mike
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- Category 12, Topic 6
- Message 9 Sat Nov 08, 1986
- MICHAEL.M [-:SysOp:-] at 00:59 EST
-
- Here are some preliminary specs on Fiscal Informations new and
- revamped LT KERNAL hard drive:
-
- FISCAL INFORMATION, INC.
- Lt. Kernal Hard-disk and
- DOS Vers 6.1
-
- System Features
-
- - Runs copy-protected software
- - Built-in KEYED INDEXED-RANDOM
- ACCESS method
- - Supports both C-128 and C-64
- modes of operation
- - Forty-two additional or en-
- hanced system commands
- - LOAD speed in excess of
- 100 (1 x 10^2) times the
- speed of 1541 floppy
- - automatic execution of any
- program on power-up
- - built-in CPM(tm)-like
- command-line features.
- - user definable "firm" system
- hardware features
- - up to eleven logical drives
- definable on the hard-drive
- - DOS allows up to seven FILES of
- any type to be open on hard-
- disk PLUS floppy files and
- hard-disk error-channel.
- - DOS differentiates between
- BASIC and M/L programs.
- - built-in FAST backup and restore
- - Direct invocation of any program
- from the READY prompt
- - Standard capacity of 20 MB
-
-
- ENHANCED or ADDITIONAL Direct-Mode
- DOS Features
-
- ACTIVATE AUTOCOPY AUTODEL
- BUILD BUILDINDEX CHANGE
- CLEAR CONFIG COPY
- D DEL DI
- DIR DUMP ERA
- FETCH I.C.Q.U.B. invoke
- L LOAD LU
- MERGE OOPS QUERY
- RENUM S SHIP
- TYPE UPDATEDOS USER
-
-
- ENHANCED or ADDITIONAL Run-Mode
- DOS features
-
- autoaccess autostart bell
- COPY DELETEkey INPUT#
- INSERTkey LOAD OPEN
- PRINT# SAVE SCRATCH
- SEARCHkey SHUFFLE
-
-
- *> Be sure to drop by on Sunday night! <*
-
- -=:Mike
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- Category 12, Topic 6
- Message 10 Mon Nov 10, 1986
- MICHAEL.M [-:SysOp:-] at 21:18 EST
-
- Welp, Sunday nights COnference with Lloyd and Roy from Fiscal Information
- was alot of fun and very informative. If you missed it, look for the
- edited transcript, which will be in our library tomorrow!
- Lloyd sent me some mail, a portion of which I think should be posted
- here:
-
- I talked with John Flickenger of XETEC today. He is ANIMATED!!!
- It looks like FCC and CSA are goingg fast on the 'new' package,
- and we will have production units in hand by Wednesday or Thursday of
- this week.
-
- By the way, nobody even asked about the KEYED INDEXED-RANDOM ACCESS method
- incorporated in the DOS 6.1.....
-
- This 'little' piece of code lets you write VERY sophisticated DATABASE-
- MANAGERS in regular C= BASIC. As an example, you can put together a
- complete on-line dictionary, with 30,000+ words and FULL text definitions
- in about 42 lines of BASIC.... AND, it'll get to ANY word's def. in about
- 8 tenths of one second!!!! A full DINOSAOUR (dictionary+thesaurus) only
- takes about 50 lines of BASIC. And these apps run at M/L speeds, even
- though the 'calling' routines are in BASIC, because all the KEY searches
- are incorporated in the DOS!!!
-
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-
- Thank you Lloyd and Roy for joining us! It was a pleasure.
-
- -=:Mike
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