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    From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to all on Sun Apr 8 12:21:00 2018
    Looking to obtain a legal copy of PX for winserver that maybe someone you know is no longer using.

    Thank you


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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to Dale Barnes on Tue Apr 10 21:27:00 2018
    Looking to obtain a legal copy of PX for winserver that maybe someone you kn >is no longer using.

    Well, do you have a valid key for it? Also, one would ask WHY? :)

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  • From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to Robert Wolfe on Tue Apr 10 22:21:50 2018
    Looking to obtain a legal copy of PX for winserver that maybe someone you
    kn
    is no longer using.

    Well, do you have a valid key for it? Also, one would ask
    WHY? :)

    No but I figured I would be purchasing the license for it if permitted. Why not? :) I did ask Santronics about it but only told it is no longer supported (PxWin that is) due to lack of interest.

    DOS still lives
    OS/2 Still Lives
    FD/IM/GECHO etc etc all still live.

    Why run on a Tandy but someone does. Its the fun in playing with the old systems. <evil grin>


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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to Dale Barnes on Wed Apr 11 09:00:00 2018
    No but I figured I would be purchasing the license for it if permitted. Why >not? :) I did ask Santronics about it but only told it is no longer support >(PxWin that is) due to lack of interest.

    Yeah - by their corporate customers and not by their hobbyist customers.
    I know that there have been those of us who have offered to buy the rights
    to the source code to PX/Wins to keep it updated, but Hector either refuses
    or just doesn't answer his emails.


    DOS still lives
    OS/2 Still Lives
    FD/IM/GECHO etc etc all still live.


    Hey, one of my other systems is a Telegard/2 system running under ArcaOS
    5.0.2 Professional :) It's even accessable via telnet and has the latest FrontDoor for OS/2 picking up the calls and transferring them to TG/2 :)

    Why run on a Tandy but someone does. Its the fun in playing with the old >systems. <evil grin>

    Oh, and I totally agree.

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  • From Father Paul@1:396/40 to Dale Barnes on Tue Apr 10 09:26:06 2018
    Hello Dale Barnes,

    On Apr 08, 2018 12:21pm, Dale Barnes wrote to all:

    Looking to obtain a legal copy of PX for winserver that maybe someone
    you know is no longer using.

    Thank you


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    Santronics still sells PX on their web site.

    http://santronics.com/index.php

    http://santronics.com/products/pxpress/index.php


    Father Paul, S.S.B.
    The Society of Clerks Secular of Saint Basil
    of the Holy Orthodox Church
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    http://www.reu.org ftp telnet://reu.org

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  • From Ruben Figueroa@1:124/5014 to Dale Barnes on Wed Apr 11 12:47:52 2018
    Why run on a Tandy but someone does. Its the fun in playing with the old systems. <evil grin>

    I would love to get my hands on a Tandy just for the fun of it myself.

    Ruben Figueroa aka Zazz
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  • From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to Father Paul on Wed Apr 11 13:57:03 2018
    Looking to obtain a legal copy of PX for winserver that maybe someone
    you know is no longer using.

    Thank you


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    Santronics still sells PX on their web site.

    http://santronics.com/index.php

    http://santronics.com/products/pxpress/index.php


    Yes it does but I did email them to ask them and the response I got was it is no longer supported due to lack of interest or something like that. I did ask about my upgrade to Win7 and got the price but I asked again about PXWIN again but have not heard from them yet.

    Also if you look at some parts of their web site, has not been updated in many years and others show 2018.

    Will see what they respond with. If they do not respond about PXWin, I am fine
    with that and I do understand it is not a money maker compared to WinServer. If not available, its not available. I really do not need to have it but I collect systems and compare them.

    Thanks for the info.


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  • From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to Robert Wolfe on Wed Apr 11 14:00:23 2018
    No but I figured I would be purchasing the license for it if permitted.
    Why
    not? :) I did ask Santronics about it but only told it is no longer
    support
    (PxWin that is) due to lack of interest.

    Yeah - by their corporate customers and not by their
    hobbyist customers.
    I know that there have been those of us who have offered to
    buy the rights
    to the source code to PX/Wins to keep it updated, but
    Hector either refuses
    or just doesn't answer his emails.


    I understand it. Fidonet is not the money maker it was back in the day. They have responded to most of my emails. I did also ask about releasing PXWin but did not get a response but I do not hold that against them, they have a business to run.


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  • From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to Ruben Figueroa on Wed Apr 11 14:05:42 2018
    Why run on a Tandy but someone does. Its the fun in playing with the
    old
    systems. <evil grin>

    I would love to get my hands on a Tandy just for the fun of
    it myself.


    Personally I would like to have a Raytheon PTS-1000 system, load the apps from Cassette Tape or maybe get the 5 meg disk drive....


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  • From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to Robert Wolfe on Wed Apr 11 14:12:57 2018
    Hey drop me a netmail on how to get in touch with you as I have tried to poll your systems but so far, no go. I am sure it is on my end.


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  • From Ruben Figueroa@1:124/5014 to Dale Barnes on Thu Apr 12 09:05:26 2018
    I would love to get my hands on a Tandy just for the fun of
    it myself.


    Personally I would like to have a Raytheon PTS-1000 system, load the
    apps from Cassette Tape or maybe get the 5 meg disk drive....


    Now that is really old. I was in my early 20's when I first used a computer that used cassette tape.

    Ruben Figueroa aka Zazz
    Mystic Prison Board Sysop
    telnet://pb.darktech.org:24
    Web: www.rdfig.net

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  • From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to Father Paul on Thu Apr 12 08:38:42 2018
    Santronics still sells PX on their web site.

    http://santronics.com/index.php

    http://santronics.com/products/pxpress/index.php


    Father Paul, S.S.B.
    The Society of Clerks Secular of Saint Basil
    of the Holy Orthodox Church
    frpaul@reu.org SysOp HIOC BBS
    http://www.reu.org ftp telnet://reu.org


    Yep, heard back from them yesterday so yes I can still purchase it.


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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Dale Barnes on Tue Apr 17 21:09:28 2018
    *** Quoting Dale Barnes from a message to all ***

    Looking to obtain a legal copy of PX for winserver that maybe someone
    is no longer using.

    Thank you

    This is going to be hard to find.

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Dale Barnes on Tue Apr 17 21:11:24 2018
    *** Quoting Dale Barnes from a message to Robert Wolfe ***

    I understand it. Fidonet is not the money maker it was back in the da
    have responded to most of my emails. I did also ask about releasing P
    did not get a response but I do not hold that against them, they have business to run.

    Yeah, but that's all the more reason to get rid of the excess baggage though and let someone else worry about picking up development that still has interest
    in the product. Last I understood, they were planning on opensourcing wcBASIC/wcCODE. If that comes to fruition or not, that remains to be seen.

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  • From Gene Buckle@1:138/142 to Robert Wolfe on Thu Apr 19 14:10:42 2018
    Re: Re: PXWIN
    By: Robert Wolfe to Dale Barnes on Tue Apr 17 2018 09:11 pm

    in the product. Last I understood, they were planning on opensourcing wcBASIC/wcCODE. If that comes to fruition or not, that remains to be seen.

    It would be nice if they'd release the sources to Wildcat! v3 and earlier too.

    g.
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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to Gene Buckle on Thu Apr 19 19:08:10 2018
    It would be nice if they'd release the sources to Wildcat! v3 and earlier
    too.

    I agree.

    So, just reinstalled WINServer 6.4 as 7 was giving me too many problems.
    Have not put any of my mods in place and now I see why I made as many modifications as I did :) Yellow -- yuck!!!


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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to Father Paul on Sun Apr 22 14:01:36 2018
    Santronics still sells PX on their web site.

    Selling is one thing. But, supporting is another.

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  • From Matt Munson@1:218/109 to All on Sat May 5 15:24:43 2018
    ROBERT WOLFE(1:261/20) wrote to ALL <=-

    Yeah, but that's all the more reason to get rid of the excess baggage though and let someone else worry about picking up development that
    still has interest
    in the product. Last I understood, they were planning on opensourcing wcBASIC/wcCODE. If that comes to fruition or not, that remains to be seen.
    A tossser and file proccessor can be done with WCBASIC/WCCODE. We dont really need a BinkP server.

    ... She sells unix shells by the sea shore
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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to Matt Munson on Sun May 6 11:01:14 2018

    On May 05, 2018 03:31pm, Matt Munson wrote to All:

    ROBERT WOLFE(1:261/20) wrote to ALL <=-

    A tossser and file proccessor can be done with WCBASIC/WCCODE. We dont really need a BinkP server.

    Enter FidoCat -- a project that does (or was supposed to do) just this. Unfortunately, the person that was supposed to help me work on it never really contributed much code and the project is stalled for now.

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  • From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to Matt Munson on Sun May 6 11:33:23 2018

    I understand it. Fidonet is not the money maker it was back in the
    day. They have responded to most of my emails. I did also ask about
    releasing PXWin but did not get a response but I do not hold that
    against them, they have a business to run.

    I would be open to paying 49-79 bucks for a supported
    fidonet product from you.

    If a supported PX/WIN lead to 10% more sales it should of
    been appreciated.


    Well I did send an email to Hector to see what it would take to take to take over PXWIN. There is no money to be made really from it but I would do it for the fun. Not sure they would even really consider it but we will see.

    In the meantime, I found my older WinToss code that was written back in the 90's that worked under 16 bit windows, I am now updating the code to work under
    32/64 bit windows. I have WC5 so going to see about getting it working with it
    first and go from there.

    More on this later but I do have a day job so I work as time allows.

    Dale


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  • From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to Matt Munson on Sun May 6 11:35:08 2018
    in the product. Last I understood, they were planning on opensourcing
    wcBASIC/wcCODE. If that comes to fruition or not, that remains to be
    seen.
    A tossser and file proccessor can be done with
    WCBASIC/WCCODE. We dont really
    need a BinkP server.


    You are correct, someone did send me a copy of what looks like a tosser but I have not looked into it yet. Mailer not really needed since there are ones out
    there that work just fine.


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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to Dale Barnes on Sun May 6 11:59:18 2018

    On May 06, 2018 11:33am, Dale Barnes wrote to Matt Munson:

    <mod hat on>

    Well I did send an email to Hector to see what it would take to take to take over PXWIN. There is no money to be made really from it but I
    would do it for the fun. Not sure they would even really consider it
    but we will see.

    In the meantime, I found my older WinToss code that was written back in the 90's that worked under 16 bit windows, I am now updating the code
    to work under 32/64 bit windows. I have WC5 so going to see about
    getting it working with it first and go from there.

    More on this later but I do have a day job so I work as time allows.

    Welcome to the echo, Dale! Glad to have ya aboard!

    </mod hat off>

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  • From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to Robert Wolfe on Sun May 6 13:30:15 2018

    Well I did send an email to Hector to see what it would take to take to
    take over PXWIN. There is no money to be made really from it but I
    would do it for the fun. Not sure they would even really consider it
    but we will see.

    In the meantime, I found my older WinToss code that was written back in
    the 90's that worked under 16 bit windows, I am now updating the code
    to work under 32/64 bit windows. I have WC5 so going to see about
    getting it working with it first and go from there.

    More on this later but I do have a day job so I work as time allows.

    Welcome to the echo, Dale! Glad to have ya aboard!

    </mod hat off>

    Yep, glad to be around. Playing with old and new stuff. It is keeping me out of trouble for now..... Let's see how long that lasts.


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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to Dale Barnes on Thu May 10 06:52:26 2018

    On May 06, 2018 01:30pm, Dale Barnes wrote to Robert Wolfe:

    Welcome to the echo, Dale! Glad to have ya aboard!

    Yep, glad to be around. Playing with old and new stuff. It is keeping
    me out of trouble for now..... Let's see how long that lasts.

    Hah! If you are anything like me in that regard, probably not long enough. :)

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  • From Dale Barnes@1:220/60 to Robert Wolfe on Fri May 11 19:30:24 2018
    Yep, glad to be around. Playing with old and new stuff. It is keeping
    me out of trouble for now..... Let's see how long that lasts.

    Hah! If you are anything like me in that regard, probably
    not long enough. :)


    Maybe a bit longer than you.... :)


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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to Dale Barnes on Sat May 12 09:05:00 2018

    On May 11, 2018 07:30pm, Dale Barnes wrote to Robert Wolfe:

    Yep, glad to be around. Playing with old and new stuff. It is
    Dkeeping
    me out of trouble for now..... Let's see how long that lasts.

    Hah! If you are anything like me in that regard, probably
    not long enough. :)


    Maybe a bit longer than you.... :)

    Heh, true, true. :)

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/18.62 to Matt Munson on Thu Jul 19 22:23:10 2018
    I would be open to paying 49-79 bucks for a supported
    fidonet product from you.

    I would agree with you on this one.


    If a supported PX/WIN lead to 10% more sales it should of
    been appreciated.


    I agree with you on this one as well.


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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/18.62 to Matt Munson on Thu Jul 19 22:24:10 2018
    A tossser and file proccessor can be done with
    WCBASIC/WCCODE. We dont really need a BinkP server.

    Yeah, but writing such a beast in wcBASIC is not that easy. I started such a project, but unfortunately, it seems the guy that was supposed to help me out with it decided to bail.


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