File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-08-21.184, message 43


Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 14:11:43 -0400
From: Michael Betancourt <mwb2-AT-mosquito.com>
Subject: Technical resources summary


TECHNICAL RESOURCE SUMMARY
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These are the responses received as of 6 July.

This summary is a listing of available resources. When someone had the
deveice but it didn't work, or they didn't know what/how it worked their
response was left off. 

If it's not listed here, it's not available, or there was no response.

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Pierre: Hardware:               IBM
Michael B.:Hardware:         IBM
Frank: Hardware:               DEC
Barrett: Hardware:              IBM
Carlos: Hardware:              Amiga 1200 and Amiga 500
William: Hardware:             IBM
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Pierre: CPU:                 PC 486 DX 2 - 66 Mhz
Michael B.:CPU:            PC 486 DX  100 Mhz
Frank: CPU:                  alpha        
Barrett: CPU:                 486/50
Carlos: CPU:                 68020
William: CPU:                pentium 100
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Pierre: Memory               8 Megs
Michael B.:Memory:        12 Megs
Barrett: Memory:             8mg
Carlos: Memory:             6 mg
William: Memory:            32mg
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Pierre: Disk:                  250 + 540 Megs with about 100 Megs free
Michael B.:Disk Drives:  1 Gig  with about 850 Megs free, 4x cd-rom drive,
SCSI Zip drive
Barrett: Disk Drives:       1-105mg; 1-850mg
Carlos: Disk Drives:       1-170mg; 1-850mg
William: Disk Drives:      1.2 gb and iomega ZIP 100
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Pierre: Sound:       Soundblaster-Pro board 
Michael B.:Sound:  Soundblaster-Pro board 
Carlos: Sound:        Technosound Turbo 2 Pro (sampler) produce sound efects
>from any sound source (video, tape, radio, etc.) namely delay, chorus, echo,
reverb and many others)
William: Sound:       there is something but I don't know what
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Pierre: Scanner:       Genius scanmate color 24 bits true color, 800 dpi -
max "safe" scanning size 10.4 cm x 15 cm (i.e. normal photo format)
Michael B.:Scanner:       HP Scanjet 2c  color 24 bits true color, 1200-2400
dpi max scanning size 9 by 14 in.
Frank: Scanner:            none
Barrett: Scanner:           can rent at $1/scan
Carlos: Scanner:           maybe sponsored (probably some) or can rent
William: Scanner:          no
Lynn: Scanner:              Access to a Flat-bed and slide scanners.
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Pierre: Modem:              28.800 Tornado Fax Modem
Michael B.:Modem:        14.400  Fax/Modem
Frank: Modem:               na
Barrett: Modem:              14400
Carlos: Modem:              28800 Supra Fax Modem
William: Modem:             28800
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Pierre: Printer:         EPSON Stylus color 720 x 720 dpi (on sundays)
Michael B.:Printer:   Sharp JX-9210 Laser printer
Frank: Printer:          B/W laser (HP) 
Barrett: Printer:         24pin dot; with access to a 600dpi color HP  
Carlos: Printer:         simple black/white Commodore
William: Printer:        epson stylus color 700dpi 
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Pierre: Web space              2 megs on Euronet + 4 megs through my brother
Michael B.:Web space:       10 megs on mosquito.com + more via art.net
Barrett: Web space:             4-8mg available 
(counting william's 2 at AOL, probably has some at NETCOM too?) depending on
how AOL figures it
Carlos: Web space:              no
Lynn: WebSpace:                 http://www.sito.org/ (i'll know the rest of
the path soon).

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Software:

Pierre: OS                                 Windows 3.11
Michael B.:OS                            Windows 95
Frank: OS                                  UNIX, VMS
Barrett: OS                                 Windows95
Carlos: OS                                 Amiga MS-DOS
(reading MSO ascii language and pics from PC)
William: OS                                Windows 3.1  
Lynn: OS:               Have access to Mac, PC, Sun and Ultrix OS.
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Pierre: Graphic                               Photofinish
Michael B.:Graphic                          Photoshop 3.05
(with assorted plug-ins including GIF 89a)
                                                      Photofinish
                                                      Corel 5.0 Bundle
                                                      Adobe Premiere
                                                      Assorted Image viewers
Frank: Graphic                                 X-system   
Barrett: Graphic                                Photofinish
                                                       TruspaceSE
                                                       Macromodel
                                                       GIFcon (animated gifs)  
                                                        various other tidbits
Carlos: Graphic                                 Photogenics
                                                        Personal Paint
                                                        GFXCon
(Gfx converter, makes conversion of all kind of pics Amiga, PC or MAC)
William: Graphic                                Coreldraw5
                                                         Xara (corel)
                                                        Photoshop3
                                                        True-space2
Lynn: Graphics:                                 Photshop 3.0
                                                        ScreenSnap
                                                        Various JPEG and GIF
converters
I have web tools for creating imagemaps & server-push animations.
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Michael B.:Typesetting/Graphic Design       Quark Xpress 3.32
                                                                 Adobe
Pagemaker 6.0
                                                                 Corel 5.0
Bundle
Barrett: Typesetting/Graphic Design             Word for Windows
Carlos: Typesetting/Graphic Design             several
William: Typesetting/Graphic Design            Word for Windows
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Pierre: Sound                   What went with Soundblaster
Michael B.:Sound             Soundblaster Software
                                        Real audio encoder
                                        Assorted bits that came w/Win95
Carlos: Sound                   Music X,
                                        Octamed and many others (sound
effects too)
Lynn: Sound:                    apple's 'Sound Manager' and some software
for recording 'Real Audio' tracks, but haven't used it much
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Pierre: Text                       Winword 2.0, Claris works
Michael B.:Text                 MS Word 7.0
Frank: Text                       LaTeX, X-system
Barrett: Text                      Word for Windows
Carlos: Text                      Wordworth
                                        Cygnus Editor and many others
(converts to PC, ascii)
William: Text                      Word for Windows
Lynn: Text:                         MSWord (Mac & PC) 
                                         Word Perfect (Mac) 
                                         Simple Text, etc..
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Pierre: Optical Character Recognition                   Smartpage Direct
Michael B.:Optical Character Recognition              Text Bridge
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Michael B.:Scanning                                 Deskscan 2 (ver 2.3)
Frank: Scanning                                        none
Barrett: Scanning                                       photofinish    
Carlos: Scanning     no (as i said i have some possibilities to get friendly
support from Minho University and from Centro Amiga (Lisbon)
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Pierre: Web Browser                                Netscape 3.0 Beta 4 
Michael B.:Web Browser                           Netscape 3.0 (Beta 4)
Frank: Web Browser                                  Netscape, mosaic 
Barrett: Web Browser                                 Netscape 2
Carlos: Web Browser                                 AMosaic, IBrowse and AWEB
William: Web Browser                                 Netscape 2
Lynn: Web Browser:                                    Netscape 3.0/2.0
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Pierre: E-mail                                            Eudora
Michael B.:E-mail                                      Eudora
Frank: E-mail                                       standard UNIX, VMS
Barrett: E-mail                                           Eudora 1.5.4
Carlos: E-mail                                           THOR 
William: E-mail                                          AOL
Lynn: E-mail                                              Eudora, Elm
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Lynn: IRC: Homer (mac).
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Michael B.:FTP                                        Cute FTP
Frank: FTP                                               do
Barrett: FTP                                             CuteFTP 1.4
Carlos: FTP                                             Gui-FTP
Lynn: FTP:                                               Fetch (mac)
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Pierre: News                                           Trumpet News
Frank: News                                           do
Barrett: News                                           NewsXpress 2.0
Carlos: News                                           THOR
Lynn: News:                                             Via UNIX account.
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Pierre: Web Programming                        A quick and dirty HTML editor
Michael B.:Web Programming                  HTML Writer
Frank: Web Programming                        no skills
Barrett: Web Programming                       Word or Notepad and HOTDOG's
help file,
                                                               learning JAVA

Carlos: Web Programming                       no, i have to ftping from Aminet
Lynn: Web Programming:                         things in Perl are no
problem, neither is compiling and setting up Java scripts, but i don't know
enough Java to write them
de novo
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Michael B.: Other Stuff                     MAC opener (MAC-IBM converter)
                                                      WINZIP
                                                      STUFFIT for Windows
Barrett: Other Stuff                            can do HELP files
Lynn: Other Stuff:                              .zip .sit (stuffit) .hqx
(bin/hex) .uu (uuencode) .Z (UNIX compress) .gz (GNU zip) are all fine.

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That's it.

-- Michael Betancourt
                    E-mail: 	mwb2-AT-mosquito.com
 Index to Web Sites:	http://www.mosquito.com/~mwb2





   

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