msp@psuhcx.psu.edu (Mark S. Pfaff) (10/14/89)
hey. so i'm trying to get started on this cbds system apparatus and as luck would have it, the ops know little if anything and there don't seem to be any readily available information sources (excepting of course the manuals which weigh in at about 12 pounds and don't appear to contain much for the newcomer.) I'd simply like to find something along the lines of getting started with the damned thing as well as perhaps a diagram of exactly what those 40 some entirely unmarked buttons on that extra keypad do. apparently the reason i couldn't get the program to do anything was because i needed to hit one of those buttons, which one i have no idea. oh well. any help would be groovy, so to speak. mark pfaff and make sure you respond to msp@psuecl.psu.edu because the rest of the mailers in these parts. thanks. incidentally the cbds business is running on some ibm 4341 apparatus with 5080 terminals (i may be wrong on the numbers, but it's something like that if it helps. i feel so insignificant.)