MaasInfo.SQWA = Specific Questions Waiting for Answers, by Robert Elton Maas, version of 1995.Aug.10, contact info updated 2012.Apr.19: The author can be contacted on Twitter.Com/CalRobert or TinyURL.Com/uh3t I am looking for answers for the questions listed below. Elsewhere I provide "trivial shareware" information, where I ask anyone who finds my information worth more than a dollar to please return the favor by helping me find information I am seeking. Well, this is a partial list of information I'm currently seeking. Anyone who provides satisfactory answers to me for a few of these questions thereby satisfies his/her "trivial shareware" fee for one of the actual MaasInfo files. Of course if you have already provided me with good information at some time, your fee may have already been "paid" in advance, i.e. my MaasInfo may be paying my debt for your past information rather than vice versa. %% Here is the text formerly in the file SQWA.WRU (moved into this file MaasInfo.SQWA sometime in late 1991), consisting of old questions from 1972-73 that to this day haven't been answered. I still would like answers or info-referrals for many of these. Note the questions as shown here are just brief summaries. I have lots more background info for anyone seriously interested in trying to answer a particular question, for example details of how I met and where I last saw the longlost heartbreaks, and names of files (documents & software) I've written in regard to technical topics. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS WAITING FOR ANSWERS (SQWA) Originally collected 1972-73, partially updated 1979.May.05, edited slightly sometime in 1988, converted from POX to plain ASCII text 1991.Aug.06 and folded into this file, then edited further as part of this file. (After each question is a list of keywords in parenthesis. Some items from earlier editions are now obsolete and marked as such here.) 1) REM -- Wanted, a currently-existing "sensitivity training" group, or people interested in forming one. (ENCOUNTER SENSITIVITY TRAINING GROUP) [OBSOLETE: I'm no longer interested in "sensitivity training" groups] 2) Davenport -- (73 years old female, youthful + healthy + lonely) Wanted similar age + health man to share life near Cottage Grove, Oregon. (MATCHMAKING COTTAGE-GROVE) [OBSOLETE: Lonely old woman died before I could find her a companion] 3) [OBSOLETE, PAID $100 FOR ALTERNATE METHOD] 4) REM -- Have some issues of "A Word in Edgewise", a hundred-page essay on human-intelligence robots of the future, want other people to read them, want to borrow other issues about different subjects. (HAVE WORD EDGEWISE MAGAZINE) Update 1992: We've managed to find the author's e-mail address, although I've misplaced it at the moment. Update 2012.Dec.30: I did a Google search for ["A Word in Edgewise" robotics] which turned up as first hit: http://www.wordedge.org/ (Dick Fredericksen, "I Have a Pipedream") 5) REM -- Wanted, expert player of Sprouts (math game) as opponent or co-researcher. I have done a lot of research on the game by myself already and want to share results. (SPROUTS MATH GAME PLAY) 6) REM -- Wanted, person who has tapes of oldies but goodies, to trade tapes by dubbing (see my list of what I want and what I have)). (TAPE OLDIES GOODIES DUB AUDIO) [OMITTED, POSSIBLE COPYRIGHT PROBLEMS] 7) [OBSOLETE, DOG DIED BEFORE IT COULD BE HELPED] 8) REM -- Wanted, the whereabouts of Mary Jean "Midge" Wardell, born 1950, last seen 1969. (WHEREABOUTS MARY JEAN WARDELL MIDGE) 9) REM -- Wanted, the whereabouts of Kathleen Pratt/Windsor, born 1947, last seen 1962. (WHEREABOUTS KATHY KATHLEEN PRATT WINDSOR PALMDALE SYLMAR) 10) REM -- Wanted, the whereabouts of Jacqueline June Smith, born 1945, last seen 1963. (WHEREABOUTS JACQUELINE JUNE SMITH JACKIE) 11) REM -- Wanted, the whereabouts of Alana Grajewski, last seen 1971. (WHEREABOUTS ALANA GRAJEWSKI) 12) REM -- Wanted, happiness: more reasonably, where to find good counseling or therapy on overcoming the "Work Ethic". (HAPPINESS WORK ETHIC ALTERNATIVE) [OBSOLETE, OUTGREW 'WORKAHOLISM' ON MY OWN, OR DID I?] 13) REM -- Wanted, an up-to-date consumer's information exchange. (CONSUMER INFORMATION EXCHANGE FEEDBACK) Update 1992.Spring: Will be checking out some UseNet newsgroups to see if they satisfy my needs. misc.consumers has too many random messages for me to have time to browse without better access software. Does anybody collect the articles in misc.consumers and organize them by topic and make an index to them plus the single-topic sets available for later browsing? 14) [OBSOLETE, I'VE LOST MY ACTIVE INTEREST IN FOLK DANCING] 15) REM -- Wanted to be mailed announcements of all free-to-public events and clubs at Stanford. (MAIL ANNOUNCEMENT FREE PUBLIC EVENT STANFORD ASCA) Update 1992.Sept: su.events has just a tiny smidgen of this info. Could somebody with access to lots of this info volunteer to post weekly event calenders to su.events? Update 1995.Feb: Even better, could somebody volunteer to keep a WWW index of Stanford events? 16) REM -- Wanted, a girl (age 14-30) who likes to kiss, is attractive, is compatible with me, doesn't smoke or drink, etc. (GIRL KISS FEMALE GIRLFRIEND ROMANCE MATCHMAKING) 17&20&21) REM -- Wanted, up to date info about algorithms to sort variable-length data in large files (>= 30,000 records). Also, a person to work with me on Sort/Merge project. (ALGORITHM SORT VARIABLE-LENGTH DATA FILES MERGE COMPUTER) What is the state of the art in in-RAM Sort/Merge algorithms which minimize page-faults in a paged enviroment? (COMPUTER SORT MERGE ALGORITHM PAGE FAULT ENVIROMENT) Update 1991: I've done some more research and have a program on my Macintosh working, but further collaboration might be useful since my program leaves some potential optimizations undone. 18) REM -- Wanted, person interested in moneyless society, who understands the Heat Death of the Universe, to discuss our ideas. (HEAT DEATH UNIVERSE DISCUSS IDEA) Update 1991: Hmmm, I wonder if somebody connected with GNU might be able to help me? I'll have to investigate that lead when I have time. [Update 1992.Sept: INACTIVE] 19) REM -- ASCA Request -- seminars / meetings / projects / lectures etc. on how to set up a good public information system. Also I want to get in contact with people who are thinking about public access to ISR (Information Storage and Retrieval), and persons interested in exchanging new ideas in ISR such as Generalized Computer Dating, Binary Vote Scheme, computerized conferencing, and maybe trying some of these ideas. (ASCA SEMINAR MEETING PROJECT LECTURE INFORMATION ACCESS RETRIEVAL STORAGE COMPUTER-DATING GCD VOTE CONFERENCING COMPUTER) (Update: Perhaps I should post this to PARA?) 20,21) [MERGED WITH 17] 22) REM -- How can I get over my lingering BURNOUT symptoms, or can I? (BURNOUT ULCER VOMITBURP DETACH PSYCHOLOGY) 23) REM -- How can I improve my memory? No matter how vitally important something is, or how desperately I want to remember it, I still forget. I'm sick and tired (pissed-off) at people who recite "If you really wanted to remember it, you would." For myself, that simply isn't true! (I have almost hired an answering service to telephone me to remind me of appointments.) (IMPROVE MEMORY REMEMBER FORGET APPOINTMENTS) Update 1991: I haven't encountered many of those annoying people recently, and I keep a calendar of important things to do on my Macintosh now, so this isn't so big a problem now. 24) REM -- I want to be tested for vitamin and mineral deficiencies. What am I lacking? Where can I get a super-good blood test? (TEST VITAMIN MINERAL DEFICIENCY HEALTH NUTRITION) 25) REM -- Research into finding a general strategy for Misere Nim games, like the general strategy for ordinary Nim. Anyone have any results or ideas? I have already achieved some major results in this research project. Wanted think-tank / problem-solve / discussion / exchange. (STRATEGY MISERE NIM GAME MATH) Update: Conway has a book that explores some of these games, although with a very strange notation. Someday when I have time I should bite the bullet and borrow the book from the library and try to understand his notation, and then decide whether he did anything worthwhile at all or just introduced a lot of dead-end mumbo jumbo that begs the question. 26) REM -- What vitamins and minerals are needed by my body. How does cooking etc. degrade the vitamin content of various foods? Wanted a handy source of info for now and whenever I begin using a new kind of food. (VITAMIN MINERAL COOKING FOOD) 27) REM -- Wanted, people to read my diary and love me, maybe even someone who will publish it. A one-ounce packet of randomly-selected clippings from copies of the diary is available for anyone to sample. (Update 1993: I can't afford the postage currently, so samples are now available only by e-mail.) (READ DIARY LOVE PUBLISH SAMPLE) 28) [OBSOLETE, I NO LONGER CARE ABOUT PDP-10 ALGORITHMS] 29) [OBSOLETE] 30) REM -- Where can I find an expert on the WFF'N PROOF games? Has anyone analyzed the proof games (multi-person)? (WFF WFF'N-PROOF GAME LOGIC SYMBOLIC) 31) REM -- Re the N.Y. Times computerized on-line access to the morgue index (started 1969.Nov) which costs several hundred dollars a month for unlimited service: (a) How useful and convenient is this service (consumer feedback wanted)? (b) Is there any way to get limited service at a lower cost, perhaps through a local multiplexor? (N.Y. TIMES MORGUE INDEX MULTIPLEXOR ACCESS) 32) REM -- Does anyone have an answer or any ideas how to research my conjecture in knot theory about rubber-bands around a box? (KW: TOPOLOGY MATH KNOT-THEORY KNOT RESEARCH CONJECTURE) 33) REM -- Where can I find a group of people who like new untested ideas and want to try them out, to share those many random ideas I come up with. (IDEA RANDOM TRY SHARE) 34) REM -- Wanted, the whereabouts of Emilie Burge, last seen 1972. (WHEREABOUTS EMILIE BURGE) 35) [OBSOLETE, I HAVE ACCESS TO MACINTOSH ALLEGRO COMMON LISP NOW] 36) Anybody interested in hiring me to do computer programming, information organization, or something else I can do well? General resume, and specific resumes (LISP, Macintosh, ...) available on request. (Update 1993.Apr: This unemployment has gone from bad to worse. I have now been unemployed 1.5 years, am nearly $12,000 in debt already and going $700 deeper into debt each month to support myself, wife, and two little children born 1990.Mar and 1991.Dec. I urgently need help finding a source of income before my credit runs out and we all lose our apartment and have to live on the streets!!) 37) Fran -- Wanted, a male companion, easygoing, sense of humor, age 20-30, likes music (different kinds), understanding, not good-looking, near Sunnyvale. I am female, age 18, 5'6" tall, brown hair. I like poetry, studying people. Contact Fran Olson, (408) 732-4827. (KW: CONNECT PERSON DATING GIRLFRIEND MATCHMAKING SUNNYVALE COMPANION COMPANIONSHIP MALE FEMALE LONELY LONELINESS DATE FRIEND) Note: Ages refer to when this ad was written in 1973. 38) Gary Bailey (Remote Computing Co.) -- Hydrogen conversion for cars similar to propane conversion. Want current status of R+D. (KW: AUTOMOBILE HYDROGEN CAR PROPANE) 39) [OBSOLETE, EXCEPT FOR THE 'WELL' THERE ARE NO ONLINE SYSTEMS IN SAN FRANCISCO I MIGHT WANT TO GET INTO WHILE AVOIDING LONG DISTANCE CALL, AND I CAN LIVE WITHOUT THE 'WELL'] 40) REM -- Many charities are in competition for what little money we have to spare. Is there an index of charities, showing where their money goes, and providing their mailing addresses? (CHARITY INDEX) Update 1991-2: Jim Cooper says the CFC (Combined Federal Campaign) has info about what percentage of collection from each collector actually goes to charity. Is there anybody on the network connected to the CFC who could relay questions & answers and distribute ASCII databases? 41) [OBSOLETE] 42) REM -- Re sources of energy, there are several "hidden costs" associated with each plan. I want information, estimates of costs involved in the following methods of utilizing garbage as an energy source (garbage to Methanol, garbage to Methane/Propane, garbage directly to electricity, garbage to boil water to run turbine to produce electricity, garbage to pellet fuel, Methane/Propane to Methanol) with respect to the following factors (initial cost in money, raw materials, energy, manpower and time, maintenance cost, efficiency of plant compared to theoretical maximum based on thermodynamic calculations). [PARTIAL ANSWER, SCIENCE MAGAZINE 1979.FEB.23 P.719] (SOURCE ENERGY GARBAGE METHANE PROPANE METHANOL ELECTRICITY CRISIS PELLET FUEL ENTROPY THERMODYNAMICS METHYL ALCOHOL) 43) REM -- How good are (Methanol, Propane, Methane, Natural gas, pellet fuel, mixed gasses, Hydrogen, Gasoline, Coal) for the purposes of (Automobiles, busses, trucks, rapid transit, ordinary trains, electricity generation, commercial process heating, chemicals for plastics etc., home furnaces, home cooking, emergency generators)? (METHYL ALCOHOL METHANOL PROPANE METHANE GAS PELLET FUEL HYDROGEN GASOLINE COAL AUTOMOBILE BUS TRUCK RAPID-TRANSIT TRAIN ELECTRICITY PLASTIC INDUSTRY FURNACE GENERATOR) 44) REM -- Re aluminum in garbage which is used as a source of energy. Has Combustion Power Company or anyone else found a way to stop it from coating the turbine blades with aluminum-oxide? Can it be removed from pellet-fuel? If left in pellet-fuel, does it foul up coal furnaces in which it is substituted? (ALUMINUM-OXIDE GARBAGE SOURCE ENERGY COMBUSTION TURBINE PELLET-FUEL FUEL FURNACE COAL) 45) REM -- Re garbage and other organic materials as an untapped source of energy -- it seems to me that the most promising approaches toward utilizing this energy source are (1) Garrett Research's garbage-to-oil process (2) the carbon-monoxide process. Any rebuttal, or shall we start turning these pilot plants into full-scale plants as soon as possible? (GARBAGE SOURCE ENERGY CRISIS PYROLYSIS GARRETT OIL CARBON-MONOXIDE) 46) REM -- What set of routines exist for manipulating finite groups, especially symmetry groups for data structures such as molecules, Sprouts situations and arbitrary lists. I prefer LISP functions but will accept packages of routines in other computer languages. (FINITE GROUP ALGEBRA MATHEMATICS MATH SYMMETRY MOLECULE SPROUTS LISP COMPUTER) 47) REM -- Where does there exist an index of available computer programs and subroutines, the index being accessible to the public, including as much as possible the following: Location and name of program, cost (if any) of purchase or rent of program, description of purpose, how to operate it, input format, output format, feedback from users on bugs and general usefulness, cross references to similar programs, name/adr/phone of experts who can tell you more about the program, keywords for access to each programs' info from the top level of the index, subject breakdown in the index. (COMPUTER PROGRAM SUBROUTINE INDEX KEYWORD ACCESS) Update 1992.Sep: Lots of this info is scattered in archives of various machine-specific interest groups, including INFO-MAC, but I'm looking for a more unified index that is better for seeing the state of art and state of availability. 48) REM -- Does anyone know a closed-form expression for the following recursively defined function: f(n) = if n <= 1 then zero, else the smallest non-negative integer not an element of the set {f(i-1) XOR f(n-i) such that 1 <= i <= n} where XOR is the "exclusive-or" logic function operation bitwise on the numerical argument. (MATH GAME NIM RECURSIVE FUNCTION) 49) REM -- I want to get into a discussion group regarding the moral aspects of forcing or pressuring someone else to go along with you. This question appears in regard to advertising, romance, politics, evangelism, broadcasting, conversation, etc. (DISCUSSION MORAL ETHIC FORCE PRESSURE RAPE ADVERTISING PROPAGANDA BRAINWASH COMMERCIAL) 50) [OBSOLETE] 51) [OBSOLETE] 52) REM -- I'd like to start or join a discussion or conference on how to make best use of a simple keyword-based public ISR system similar to the Resource One Community Bulletin Board. I have several good ideas and want to exchange ideas with other people. (DISCUSSION CONFERENCE RESOURCE-ONE BULLETIN BOARD EXCHANGE INFORMATION ACCESS STORAGE RETRIEVAL ISR) Update 1991-2: Resource One / Community Memory is now defunct, but this general quesition may still be worth discussing. Maybe I should post it to PACS-L or PARA? 53) REM -- Wanted, an expert at the psychological and medical consequences of biorhythms, to read my diary from 1961 to 1989, record data about probable ups and downs of biorhythms. I can then perform a Fourier analysis on this data to determine how much biorhythms affect my life. This would be a reasonably good scientific test of the biorhythm theory. (PSYCHOLOGY MEDICAL BIORHYTHM DIARY UPS DOWNS FOURIER THEORY) 54a) REM -- I have heard advertisements on the radio for a proctal examination, a pap test, regular dental checkups, yearly medical exams, and several other tests and exams I don't remember. Is there any way to get a complete list of reccommended medical exams and tests (including how often for each)? I would like to submit the list to my doctor to find out when (if ever) I have most recently received each, and thereby determine whether I am overdue for any of them. (PROCTAL EXAMINATION PAP TEST DENTAL MEDICAL DOCTOR) 54b) Whenever I go to a new doctor, I have to fill out a questionnaire about my medical history, most of which I do not remember very well. Is there any standard way to collect the important information from all my previous doctors and summarize it in a "medical resume" which I could use for reference the next time I have to see a new doctor? (DENTAL MEDICAL RECORD RESUME DOCTOR) 55) [OBSOLETE, I NOW HAVE AN ALGORITHM TO EFFICIENTLY COUNT UP TOTAL NUMBER OF OCCURRANCES OF EACH WORD AND PRESENT IN SORTED OUTPUT IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER AND IN ORDER BY COUNT.] (Suggested additional keywords for most of the above: REM SQWA SQWA- CONNECT PERSON WANTED INFORMATION) %% New questions for MaasInfo.SQWA (just a few questions as a starter, 1991 Spring/Summer) 56) Where can I find a specification of the code (data representation, translation) used by Binhex version 4? Update 1991-2: I have found a document which is a reverse-engineering of BinHex 4.0 representation, together with some Pascal sample source code. When I have time I'll check if this info is correct ... 57) Where can I find a publicly-accessible database of Macintosh application signatures (such as WILD for Hypercard), especially one that indicates which applications are free/share-ware and which are commercial? (Boston Computer Society is alleged to be working on such, but I haven't been able to make contact with the person in charge.) Update 1992.Sep.20: I give up trying to find such an index already available. I'll just have to create such an index myself. Contact me to volunteer to help me once I get moving on this project. 58) Where can I find a publicly-accessible database of bugs in various Macintosh programs and fixes for any that are fixable? (Yes, I know that INFO-MAC has some of of that information hidden in the various digests, but I am looking for more of a database with that information nicely organized and not mixed with other messages.) 59) Where might I find tutorial and checklist of effective techniques for finding a correct EMAIL address when the one tried first bounced? This should cover cases when the host doesn't exist or is unreachable, when the host exists but the mailbox doesn't, when the non-delivery notice is so strange you don't know why your mail bounced, and when you get some mailer-bounce message for something that doesn't even seem to be one of your messages and have no idea why it was sent to you. This checklist would be an alternative to dumbly posting a query to INFO-NETS and having five people spend their time telling you the same thing they told the last person who asked the same kind of question. Update 1992.Sep.20: I have some techniques I've perfected, so maybe I should write a strawman draft of this FAQ document and challange the other experts (Nauen, JIK) to tell me what I overlooked? Update 1993.May: I now have written MaasInfo.FailNet. 60) Where might I find any significant collections of public-domain information online? I already now about Project Gutenburg which contains public documents (Declaration of Independence and Constitution) and published books whose copyright has expired. I also already know about the giant archive at PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU containing the periodic postings for all the UseNet newsgroups that have any. But I'm looking more for lots of little facts (stars of movies or TV programs, TV program listings, lists of radio stations with call letters frequency and city, etc.) that are common knowledge that go far beyond those Gutenburg and PIT-MANAGER archives, any other major organized collections of useful "trivia". 61) Service bureaus around here (Mountain View, CA) charge $3.00 for each page that is scanned (digitized), with or without OCR. This seems very expensive. I would expect something more like $0.30 per page if the whole process is automated (nobody manually correcting anything except alignment of paper in the scanner). Does anybody know of a mail-order service bureau (or a local service bureau, Mountain View, CA, I've overlooked) that scans at such a reasonable cost? Update 2008: The computer lab in the apartment complex where I've resided recently/currently has a scanner hooked up to one computer, so I can now scan for free, although each scan takes several minutes, so it's not practical for scanning my complete paper file. %% Addenda, new questions added later 62) I'm interested in finding people who have read or browsed "The Evolution of Cooperation" by Axelrod, or who are otherwise expert at "Prisoner's Dilemma" and related non-zero-sum games, who would like to discuss such matters. (I wonder if there's an interest group on such matters.) 63) Long ago I gave up trying to compute optimum nutritional diets because the information about how much of certain nutrients (vitamins, minerals, amino acids) in certain foods wasn't available from all the public documents I could find. I'd still like to fill in the gaps in my food & nutrient matrix. (Contact me to find out which specific elements are most needed.) Maybe I could find a nutrition interest group and post a query? 64) I need some simple ASCII text files printed. The local one-hour photo driveup charges 40 cents a page plus $6/hr for computer time (minimum $2.00 even if I just want to print one page). The only alternative I've found is Kinko's which charges 50 cents a page plus $6/hr for computer time pro-rated by the minute so it'd cost about $1.10 per page regardless of quantity. I can't afford such terribly high prices, nor can I afford to buy a printer. Is there anyone in the local (Mountain View, CA) area who has a printer who will print my files for a much lower fee, like 5-10 cents per page, and no $2 minimum? Update 1994: Kinko's now charges $12/hr for computer time! 65) (1995.Jan) Christine Irizarry wants to know about any online service that lets users check basic biographical information. 66) (1995.Jan) shchoo@horng.pl.my wants to know where to find online index of online books & periodicals etc. (We already know about Project Gutenberg, but want to know about all the rest) 67) (Wanting to know for years, to confirm something somebody told me when I was a kid, question moved here 1995.Aug) How can I find out the date and crew of the first American (USA) reconaissance over Hiroshima after the 'atomic' bomb was dropped over it? %% New SQWA (Specific Questions Waiting for Answers) in 2005 68) I'd like to set up framework for database of FAX numbers of rogue ISPs and other companies that harass people with unwanted ads. Looking or any such data, and anyone to work with me to set up such a database. 69) Any of these related to my beloved? Heather Thompson - (563) 355-5449 - 2126 Oak St, Bettendorf, IA 52722 Heather Thompson - (319) 592-3553 - 1041/2 Washington St, Bonaparte, Heather Thompson - (712) 256-2742 - 2742 7th Ave, Council Bluffs, IA Heather Thompson - (563) 391-3406 - 1317 Emerald Dr, Davenport, IA Heather Thompson - (712) 782-3122 - 203 River St, Irwin, IA 51446 - Heather Thompson, 443 Carver Hall, Mathematics Department Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 70) Want department-store info about this product: Elephant toothbrush: http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/0/BC+PD++948 71) When I try to print a MS-Word document, and the computer puts up an alert that there's text outside the printing area, how to capture the text that shows in the alert, so that I can e-mail it to somebody to ask for help how to fix the problem? 72) Any other tiny-page Web sites except mine? %% More from recent years, finally copied here starting 2013.Jan.09: 73) Looking for device I can attach to my telephone landline to filter incoming calls (by matching caller-ID, or requiring touch-tone password), so that I get alerted by ring-tone *only* when I'm called by somebody I've pre-authorized to call me, all other callers get recorded message referring them to Web page where I ask them to explain why I should accept their calls. It can be standalone device with some way to configure it, or device that plugs into USB port of Dell Optiplex GX280 computer configured by Windows-XP control panel. 74) Looking for Windows-XP software that allows data to be captured from not-finalized DVD-R, ignoring some corrupted data that makes it unloadable in the DVD recorder that originally created it. 75) Looking for Windows-XP software that allows viewing commercial DVD. Software that comes with system says it can't find decoder. 76) Looking for search engine where I present an image (JPEG) and the search engine tells me where to find the indexed images which are most similar to it. Google promised this kind of service a year ago but hasn't yet made it available AFAIK. (Update later in 2013: Google similar-image search is finally online, allowing me to discover that htsweety is really Leanna at BigButts, and blue_eyes_irina is really irinat.com) 77) Looking for null-modem cable to connect between my Mac (need male MiniDIN-8 on cable) and my Dell/Sony computers (need female DE-9 on cable). 78) Looking for null-modem cable to connect between any two of my Dell/Sony computers (need female DE-9 on both ends of cable). 79) Looking for replacement diskette drive for my Macintosh Performa 600. 80) How to start a game on IGS linked to JagoClient? [Update: If I simply start game from commandline, JagoClient recognizes the start and shows it.] 81) Looking for repair to my reel-to-reel tape recorder, or else way to digitize my entire library of tapes for storing on USB thumb drive and then playing on modern computer. 82) Looking for agency that will negotiate on my behalf, with credit-card companies, to refigure a lower finance-charge APR retroactively, not reducing the amount I borrowed, but effectively reducing the amount of finance charge that was added to my debt, thus reducing the amount that I now owe. 83) Looking for simple working example of using PHP to use Twitter API with oauth. I tried GitHub without success. %% Very end of MaasInfo.SQWA as of 2013.Jan.09 13.