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...users can obtain a copy of Kermit for $5 from the Science Center supply room, or can get a more sophisticated program such as Procomm (similar in cost to Red Ryder) from friends. Those unable to obtain a terminal program from other sources should send a blank disk to the Happy Hacker at 14 Plympton St. and wait about a week for delivery...
...files you are interested in, it is necessary to transfer them from the mainframe to your computer. From a Class 4 account, Mac users simply type MACPUT filename and then set their communications program to receive a file. When the program has been put onto a Mac disk, it will need to be converted with a program called BINHEX (available from hacker friends...
...users can use a program such as Kermit. Type KERMIT on the mainframe and then type SERVER to put Kermit under the control of the PC's terminal program. From there follow Kermit's help file to put the program onto an IBM compatible disk...
Closest to home -- in the Milky Way itself -- Cornell and Caltech astronomers have found what may be the early stages in the formation of a new solar system, showing for the first time that a dust disk surrounding a sun- size star orbits the star in an orderly fashion. Such disks, initially found in the early 1980s, have been touted as the precursors of planetary systems. This discovery makes the claim a notch less speculative and suggests that stars with planets may be quite common...
Users with hard disks might have several useful utility programs, such as print spoolers or spelling checkers, automatically loaded every time they boot up. The Happy Hacker uses his hard disk's autoexec.bat file to perform several functions. After checking a calendar program to see if it's a friend's or relative's birthday, loading in a ramdisk and copying certain files to it, installing a utility which blanks the screen after five minutes of non-use, and finally printing a quote of the day (drawn from a very large database), the Happy Hacker finally has control...