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*** VMS error in delivery mail, error message follows *** EXOS Mail server: delivery error: %MAIL-E-OPENOUT, error opening UD$3:[BALLER]MAIL.MAI; as outputMSG EXOS Mail server: delivery error: -SYSTEM-F-IVDEVNAM, invalid device nameLLER]MAIL.MAI; as outputMSG EXOS Mail server: delivery error: %MAIL-E-OPENOUT, error opening UD$3:[BALLER]MAIL.MAI; as output -SYSTEM-F-IVDEVNAM, invalid device name *** Original message follows *** From : INFO-MICRO@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-MICRO Digest V89 #17 Return-path: <daemon@csd360b> Received: from csd360b (csd360b.erim.org) by vaxc.erim.org id 20604B68002 ; Thu, 26 Jan 89 04:15:02 EDT Received: by csd360b.erim.org (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA15347; Thu, 26 Jan 89 04:15:21 EST Return-Path: <@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL:INFO-MICRO-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> Received: from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL by csd360b.erim.org (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA15338; Thu, 26 Jan 89 04:13:45 EST Message-Id: <8901260913.AA15338@csd360b.erim.org> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 01:30:35 MST From: INFO-MICRO-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-MICRO@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL To: INFO-MICRO@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-MICRO Digest Thu, 26 Jan 89 Volume 89 : Issue 17 Today's Topics: alliant Amstrad Archimedes 310 Info on ORCIM, Inc. needed When did computer viruses really start? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 24 Jan 89 21:09:19 GMT From: mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!euteal!mart@uunet.uu.net (Mart van Stiphout) Subject: alliant Hi out there, does anyone know if there is a newsgroup comp.sys.alliant? And if there isn't, would it be usefull to create one ? Mart van Stiphout Eindhoven University of Technology Dept. Electr. Engineering Email: mart@euteal.eutrc3.hp4nl.mcvax.uucp ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 89 02:57:48 GMT From: SERGE@pucc.princeton.edu (Serge J. Goldstein) Subject: Amstrad Amex is offering the AMSTRAD computer for 1199, 20 months to pay, no interest. It's an MS-DOS machine with 640K, two floppies, color monitor and a mouse. Has anyone ever heard of this machine? Good deal??? ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jan 89 00:38:13 GMT From: mitel!sce!cognos!alzabo!kebera@uunet.uu.net (Krishna Bera) Subject: Archimedes 310 Good day ,eh! I read about a computer called the Archimedes 310 in BYTE(R) magazine last year, and managed to buy one. It is a RISC machine, with a 32bit bus and proprietary operating system named Arthur. I am informed by the company's agents in North America, Olivetti, that some others have been sold here too. If so, and if these folks are reading this, would you be interested in sharing info/software/tips, etc.? Please E-mail to me at the below address (unless you wish to begin a discussion right here on comp.sys.misc, of course). I understand that there are quite a few Archimedes users in the U.K. -- do you have your own news.group and if so, how may I join in? Acorn have sold a micro called the BBC in the past (didn't do well here, I hear), and are also making an Archimedes 400 series as a workstation. I am satisfied of the potential of my A310, and people I have showed it to are impressed with its speed and great graphics and sound. More later if there is interest. -- Krishna E. Bera Programmer on the loose Brian's XENIXlings 517-1375 Prince of Wales Dr. kebera@alzabo.uucp Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Tel.: 1-613-723-9576 K2C 3L5 ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 89 04:43:29 GMT From: cica!glasscoc@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (John Glasscock) Subject: Info on ORCIM, Inc. needed My friend, Jochen Hellbeck, has been investigating good deals on laptops. His best find, so far, has been a virtual Toshiba called Ogivar Laptop 286-12. It has 80286 12.5 MHz Toshiba 3200 compatible 640K Ram (100 NS) Gas Plasma Display - 4 shades 640 x 400 Resolution EGA one 720K 3.5" drive 40 MB hard drive (28 ms) MS DOS 3.3 (Yechhh!) This baby is virtually a Toshiba, and the photo shows it to be indistinguishable from a Toshiba (if it looks like a duck, walks The price, including case, is $2,695.00. The company is ORCIM, Inc. 134 West 26th St NYC 10001 or 1700 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 1-800-237-6785 Concerns that we have are that this company does not apparently accept credit cards, and we do not know anything about the company. Have any netlanders dealt with this company? What is their reputation? Are they solvent? He is going to the business library to check their Dun & Bradstreet ratings (posting will follow), and to find whatever other info we may have here (one of the best business libraries). Your comments will be appreciated. Please e-mail to me John Glasscock glasscoc@cica.cica.indiana.edu I will summarize and post by next Wednesday, 1 Feb 1989. John Glasscock Indiana University glasscoc@cica.cica.indiana.edu Bloomington, Indiana ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 89 18:21:40 GMT From: elbereth.rutgers.edu!ron.rutgers.edu!ron@rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Subject: When did computer viruses really start? I'm not sure about the medical obsession, but the concept of a computer virus was certainly used in Science Fiction stories for well over ten years. The idea of a program that gets loose and takes over all the computers is pretty classic, even if it wasn't called a virus. Certainly the infamous Bell Labs cpp feature is classifiable as a virus and by my estimates must have existed about 12 years ago. -Ron ------------------------------ End of INFO-MICRO Digest ******************************