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PC PURSUIT ---------- With PC PURSUIT, you can explore a wealth of free resources and even discover more uses for your PC. In any of the locations accessible to PC PURSUIT, you have the ability to: * communicate with friends and associates on-line, * download and upload public domain software from thousands of Bulletin Board Systems in the 34 PC PURSUIT cities, * research professional projects and personal hobbies through free databases, and * shop and advertise in electronic catalogs. The features and benefits offered by PC PURSUIT SERVICE include: Portability: ------------ Because the service is widely accessible, you can use PC PURSUIT at home, at the office, or traveling. Accessibility: -------------- The service can be accessed from nearly 9000 local telephone exchanges via the Sprint network. You can dial thousands of free databases at 300, 1200, and 2400 bps in 34 major cities across the nation, 24 hours a day. Convenient Billing: ------------------ All PC PURSUIT service charges are billed directly to your VISA, MASTERCARD, or AMERICAN EXPRESS account; or automatically debited from your checking account. Nonstop Support: --------------- As with all other Sprint services, The Sprint Network reliable data transmission. Customer Service is available to handle problem system problem reports 24 hours a day at 1-800-877-5045. START SAVING TODAY AND JOIN THE THOUSANDS OF PC USERS FROM COAST TO COAST WHO ARE ALREADY ENJOYING THE COST-EFFECTIVE WORLD OF PC COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH PC PURSUIT. CALL TO REGISTER AT 800-736-1130 (voice). PC Pursuit Rate Schedule Effective July 1, 1989 Administrative Charges: Registration Fee Payable on a one time basis when US Sprint receives and processes your order. $30/order Password Change Fee Payable each time a new password is issued. $5/password Membership Fees: Regular Membership Includes up to 30 hours of non-prime time usage. $30/month Family Membership Includes up to 60 hours of non-prime time usage. $50/month Includes up to 90 hours of non-prime time usage. $30/month Access Charges: Non-Prime Hours Usage exceeding membership limits. $3/hour Prime Hours $10.50/hour Notes: 1) Non-Prime Time hours are: 6:00 P.M. - 7:00 A.M. local time Monday through Thursday; 6:00 P.M. Friday to 7:00 A.M. Monday. All day, New Year's Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. 2) Prime Time hours are: 7:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. local time Monday through Friday. 3) Usage is rounded to the nearest minute for purpose of calculating total usage on each connection. All calls are subject to a minimum call duration of two minutes unless they are one minute or less. Calls of one minute or less are not billed. 4) Any portion of a call to Pursuit during prime time will result in the entire session being billed at prime time rates. 5) Sales tax will be billed as applicable and is not included in the fixed monthly fees. 6) A Regular Membership will allow access for one subscriber at the Regular Membership rate using single ID and password. Family Membership will allow one subscriber, or one subscriber and their immediate family members, access at the Family Membership rate using a single password and ID. 7) Handicapped membership guidelines are posted to the NetExchange Bulletin Board System and are available upon request from US Sprint. 8) All of US Sprint's PC Pursuit charges will be billed the month following actual usage. 9) There may be charges to you for the use of the online computer systems to which you gain access through PC Pursuit. These charges, if any, will be billed to you by those operating the online computer systems and not by US Sprint. Equipment and Software Requirements ----------------------------------- To use PC PURSUIT, all you need are -- - a telephone line - a modem - 300, 1200 or 2400 baud compatible. - a terminal or a PC with asynchronous communications software PARAMETERS: ----------- Communication parameters for your hardware should be set-up consistent with the PC or BBS or host computer you wish to dial. FILE TRANSFERS: --------------- Most transfer protocols are compatible with PC PURSUIT. Across SprintNet's Public Data Network, PC PURSUIT transmits data utilizing 8 bit transparency. Due to XMODEM'S use of file transfers can take slightly longer. There are however, more efficent transfer protocols such as KERMIT, SUPER KERMIT and YMODEM. You can now dial into SprintNet as 7-E-1 or 8-N-1. If you dial in at 7-E-1, you can switch your parameters to 8-N-1 with your software to prepare for a file transfer. Or, dial SprintNet at 8-N-1 to begin with, using these steps -- 1) Dial your SprintNet local access number with your settings at 8-N-1. 2) Enter (cr) D (cr) 3) At "Terminal = ", enter D1 (cr) 4) proceed with your session.... How To Use PC Pursuit Service ----------------------------- Placing a PC Pursuit Call ------------------------- * Use a modem to dial your local SprintNet access telephone number with parameters settings of 8-N-1. * Type two CARRIAGE RETURNS (CR) D (CR) SprintNet Prompt User Input Comments ====================================================================== (1) Terminal = D1 (CR) Input Terminal ID. D1 is typical for PC's. If not known, type CR. (2) @ C D/NYNYO/12,YOUR ID (CR) Type area code desired, modem speed and your user ID. (Note that /3 = 300 bps, /12 = 1200 bps, /24 = 2400 bps). (3) PASSWORD = PASSWORD (CR) Enter user Password (4) D/NYNYO/12 Connected to target CONNECTED city outdial modem. (5) ATZ Type ATZ (in upper case) (6) OK Modem responds as cleared. (7) ATDT 7654321 Type ATDT (in upper case) and the 7-digit number you wish to dial. (8) CONNECT (CR) (CR) You are now connected to the computer that you dialed. Procees as if the number was dialed directly. NOTES: ----- 1. If the connection was not made, a BUSY will be seen within 30 seconds. The BUSY message means that the number dialed was either busy, not in service, or an invalid attempt to dial more than 7 digits. A BUSY will also be seen after disconnecting from the host computer, but you can dial another number by starting again at the fifth step and typing ATZ and dialing the number. 2. PC Pursuit uses standard HAYES dialing commands, which enable you to type the A/ (no CR) command to redial the previously dialed number. 3. When a typing mistake is made in the second and third steps, the log-on must be re-entered. To Disconnect from PC Pursuit ----------------------------- SprintNet Prompt User Input Comments ====================================================================== (CR) @ (CR) Escape to SprintNet command level. @ D (CR) At the @ sign,issue disconnect command. D/NYNYO/12 Disconnect from the DISCONNECTED target city complete. User is still connected to SprintNet at the local dial-up city. A PC Pursuit can now be placed to another city. NOTES: ------ 1. To DISCONNECT FROM SprintNet, log off your computer as usual, or hang-up. PC BUSINESSCALL PC BusinessCall is designed for professionals and for small- to medium-sized businesses that typically spend between 5 to 300 hours per month accessing PCs, bulletin boards or host computers by dialing long distance. Using the Sprint Public Data Network to carry the long distance portion of data calls, PC BusinessCall saves customers up to 75% off their monthly long distance charges. Sprint is offering PC BusinessCall in two pricing packages: the Initiator Program for intermittent low-volume users, and the Professional Program, which offers maximum discounts to customers with consistent monthly usage. The Professional plan requires a $95 per month minimum, but this $95 prepays for the user's first $175 of usage per month. The Initiator plan has a $10./month account fee, plus rates More [Y]es,N)o,C)ont,A)bort,J)ump! c ranging from $2.95/hr to $7.for basic service. Rates are higher for US Outdial (OutWATS) or Dial-in WATS. For the Professional plan, the user has no $10./month account fee. Instead, a $95./month monthly minimum prepays the user's first $175. of standard usage (not including US Outdial or In-WATS). Professional rates are also lower, ranging from $2.50/hr to $6.95/hr for basic service. INITIATOR: $50.00 one-time signup fee $10.00 monthly account fee 7.50/hr peak time usage 5.50/hr prime time usage 2.95/hr non-prime usage 10.00/hr prime time US Outdial 6.50/hr non-prime US Outdial 7.75/hr WATS Dial-in surcharge (prime time) 5.50/hr WATS Dial-in surcharge (non-prime) PROFESSIONAL: $50.00 one-time signup fee $95.00 monthly minimum 6.95/hr peak time usage 4.95/hr prime time usage 2.50/hr non-prime usage 9.00/hr prime time US Outdial 5.75/hr non-prime US Outdial 7.00/hr WATS Dial-in surcharge (prime time) 5.00/hr WATS Dial-in surcharge (non-prime) PC BusinessCall uses the Sprint Public Data Network to access remote computers equipped with 300 bps, 1200 bps or 2400 bps auto-answer modems. To use this service, a customer has his PC or terminal dial a local telephone number to connect to the Sprint Public Data Network. Local access is provided from more than 18,000 cities and towns in the United States. The user enters the destination city, and then enters a command for dialing the local phone number of the system he is accessing. A special outdial modem on the network then completes the call and connects the user to the database, remote PC or other information source of his choice. At present, PC BusinessCall is available for accessing systems in the local calling area of 34 major cities in the continental U.S., with additional expansion planned for 1990. Access is provided to all other locations in the continental U.S. through US Outdial calling. Besides calling regional information systems, remote PCs, or private computer systems, applications of PC BusinessCall include retail store polling, collecting inventory or sales updates, customer order delivery, hotel and airline reservation systems, telex delivery, automated data back-up and recovery services, and many more. Dear PC Pursuit Customers: Based on a request for clarification from the Product Management message area, please note the following information: 1. Each PC Pursuit call (not made to a direct accessible host) will have 60 seconds subtracted from the actual duration of the call. If the call's actual duration was 90 seconds or less, the call will not be billed or reported. 2. After 60 seconds is subtracted, the adjusted call duration will be rounded up to the next whole minute. This means that a call of 10.3 minutes will have 1 minute subtracted to offset call set up (9.3 minutes) and then will be rounded to 10 minuted for purposes of calculating total usage of the connection. 3. If, after rounding, the adjusted duration is less than 2 minutes (the current Sprint call minimum), the adjusted duration will be changed to 2 minutes. 4. Calls that begin on the last day of the month and do not terminate until after midnight will be billed in the ending month and treated as that month's current usage for purposes of computing minimum usage charges. If you have any questions, please feel free to call US Sprint at 800-736-1130. Thank you. Dear Customers, The following addresses the questions and issues raised by a number of you regarding pricing and some related topics: 1. Pricing for PC Pursuit was devised to distribute the total cost of the service across the entire product; therefore, no special pricing exists for speed of access, distance of call, or calls made to DAF hosts. 2. A Regular membership may not be shared with anyone. 3. Accounting for a call begins with the connection to the city outdial modem. We will not bill for any calls of 1 minute or less (excluding directly accessible hosts) and all calls will have 1 minute subtracted for call set-up. However, there is a 2 minute minimum so a call of 2 minutes would have 1 minute subtracted for call set-up but be billed at the 2 minute minimum. 4. Only new customers will be charged the one time registration fee. Existing customers switching from one membership to another will not be charged another registration fee. 5. Customers that start or end a call outside of the non-prime time (6:00 p.m. or 7:00 a.m.) will be billed at prime time rates. 6. Exchanges that are supported as a part of PC Pursuit are listed on the Net Exchange. Some exchanges have been available that were not a part of the Net Exchange and Sprint carried the cost of those additional exchanges. 7. Restrictions regarding BBS access are generally done at the request of Sprint Network Security or TELCO. It is not Sprint's intent to censor our customers; however, we do want to protect customer ID's and passwords. If a BBS is posting user ID's we will restrict access. We do not shut down an entire exchange to restrict a BBS. Thank you, PC Pursuit Product Management This text smeared across cyberspace by: _________________________________________________________ || Junk Culture Hallucination | || xe0nsun ration || ||Junk Culture|!|1093-686!|00-2400|!|24hrs Per Midnight|| || | || Bog: Phydeau Koft || || || || *Well-oers* | || Nuker, The Living Ego, William F. Tell | || HwitzerExplosion Guy, Armitage || || Ootat o the Heioscrotms || || || ||"Surrealst Manifsto" 'zine is a Junk Culture Production || || Offical Dropsie of "OneEight Two Magazine || || || || "Whs's there? | || h splendid,show in theinfinite." || || -- Araon || ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^