This is an edited transcript of a special *live* chat conference, held
on the *Portal System in the Amiga Zone chat area, on the evening
of November 7, 1993. This transcript is Copyright 1993, The Amiga Zone,
and may be freely distributed provided no further editing of any
kind is performed on it. User Groups may reprint this transcript
in their newsletters and it may be posted on Bulletin Boards, Usenet,
and FTP sites.
Our special guest speaker was Mr. Dave "Hazy" Haynie, of Commodore
West Chester. The conference took the form of a question & answer
session with Dave.
This conference took almost exactly four hours in real time. Much
superfluous yakking and hellos and g'byes have been edited out to
make for a cleaner read. Thanks to Brian J. Cerveny for his
yeoman's job of editing this capture of the conference. Thanks to
Bill Seymour for maintaining the question queue during the evening.
And thanks to all who participated. And special thanks to Dave Haynie
for his vast storehouse of Amiga knowledge and willingness to give
an entire evening to this endeavor.
ABOUT PORTAL:
The Portal Online System offers unparalled Amiga support in its
Amiga Zone SIG. Not only do we have huge file libraries with thousands
of Amiga programs and files of all description, but we also maintain
the entire Fred Fish disk library online (currently at 930 disks)
for downloading. There are also a gazillion Amiga-specific message
bases, nightly live chats, over twenty Amiga-specific Commercial Vendor
areas (with their own file libraries), and more. Over 2.5 Gigabytes of
Portal disk space is devoted exclusively to the Amiga Zone.
In addition, Portal offers all the familiar "Internet Services"
including FTP, IRC, Telnet, and etc., wrapped into an easy-to-use
menu system. There are NO limits on these services and no additional
hourly costs to use them. Every Portal user also gets an unlimited
Internet-connected Email box, as well as a full UNIX Shell account
if desired. Portal has a "T1" connection to the Internet and runs on
a large network of Sun workstations.
For more information about Portal, locate, download, and read the
Portal ad in any recent issue of the "Amiga Report" online magazine.
Or send email to "cs@portal.com".
Or phone 1-408-973-9111.
Portal can be reached by direct dial (to Cupertino, CA), by
SprintNet and Tymnet, or from anywhere in the world as "portal.com"
via telnet. Portal does NOT surcharge hi-speed modem users.
*Portal is a registered trademark of Portal Communications
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