
[31m                        Legal Ease BBS
[37m
[37mIn my endless search for more boards to write reviews about I have overlooked
[37mone that is right here in my back yard.  When I need a file that I can't find
[37manywhere, am in need of a file that is unique or I have a legal question
[37mI always seem to call one BBS first, Legal Ease.

[37mLegal Ease has been in existence since the latter part of 1985 when it
[37massumed the bbs belonging to Miles Crawford called the MesSdos. It
[37mstarted on a 80286/20 with a 1200 baud Mercury modem and an 80 meg
[37mSeagate 4096 hard drive. Now Legal Ease runs on 1-486-50 LB with 1.546
[37mgigs of hard drive space, 6 CDs in a Pioneer six stacker, a 486-33 with
[37m670 meg of hard drive space and 1 cd on line, a 386-33 with 340 meg of
[37mhard drive space, and 1 CD online- A private node running a 486-50 with
[37mtwin 213 meg Maxtors and a Sony -and finally a maintenance node with a
[37m486-66, twin 340 meg drives with all 5 nodes operating through
[37mUSRobotic's HST Dual Standards at 16,800-all of which will be upgraded to
[37m28,800 as soon as the CCITT committee adopts V.FAST.

[37mLegal Ease in addition to having approximately 65,000 public share ware
[37mfiles on line- has the Washington state statutes, RCW, & WAC, the Court
[37mRules- Federal, State & local on line so you can search for any word or
[37mgroups of words in them. Also available are ethical opinions for the
[37mState. The printer drivers for Word Perfect are maintained online so that
[37mthe users of Word perfect can obtain the newest drivers without having to
[37mwait and pay 10 dollars for a disk with 1 set of drivers.
[37mThese services are and always have been free to all users.

[37mNow for those users wanting to download serious amounts of files,
[37mExtended access -graduated from 2 to 4 megabytes per 24 hour period can
[37mbe had for contributions from $35 to $100 per 12 month period. Any level
[37mof extended access also has hard drive support- type of CMOS setup,
[37mheads - cyc. etc is provided upon request. An online store provides
[37mcomputer systems, parts and accessories 24 hours a day. That missing
[37mcable your computer mail order house forgot to send you can usually be
[37mobtained Friday afternoon at 5:01 even though the normal stores have
[37mclosed for the evening- Usually week-end.

[37mMaster Card & VISA are accepted, Files on Disks are available and files
[37mon TAPE- Jumbo250 meg type are also available. Legal forms such as you
[37mwould find in a book store abound and are often times more current than
[37min the store. PCBoards 14.5 -soon to be 15 is the software that's run and
[37mupgrades are continuous.

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[37m      Here's a complete list of the hardware used on Legal Ease BBS.

[37m      80486-33 - 16 MB of RAM, Maxtor 8760e ESDI hard drive with an
[37m                 Adaptec 2322D cacheing controller and Sony 351 CD-ROM
[37m                 on NODE # 1 - LANTASTIC V.4.1 connected to.....\/
[37m                 for a total of about 1.3 gigabytes.

[37m      80486-50LB 8 MB of RAM, 1-Toshibia 878 MEG SCSI hard drive, with a
[37m                 in2000 SCSI controller on NODE # 2. Pioneer 6 disk
[37m                 CD-ROM player for a total of about 5 gigabytes.

[37m      80386-40 - 4 MB of RAM, QUANTUM 84 MB hard drive on Node # 3
[37m                 with an NEC external CD- about 700 Mbs

[37m      US ROBOTICS HST Duel Standard modems supporting up to 57,600 baud
[37m                 transfer rates, V.32bis, V.42bis and almost all other
[37m                 CCITT committee standards.  Yes the Hayes ULTRA will
[37m                 talk to these HST at 9600 baud or above. and

[37m      SONY CDR 351 CD Player, operating at 350 ms, accessing upto
[37m                 600+ Megabytes of share ware. (506 Mb - over 14,000 files)
[37m                 updated  up to 3 times a year.
    
[37m      PIONEER DRM-600 six disk CD Changer. A little over 4 Gigabytes.

[37m      Colorado Memory JUMBO 250 tape backup drive and TEAC/EVEREX 60 meg
[37m                 tape backup. Archive 6525- 525 meg tape backup.

[37m      Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 17, Optiquest 2000 D 15" & 14" EYE-Q Non-
[37m                 interlaced monitors to see whats happening.

[37m      Non-Public nodes consist of a 486-50 with 2-Maxtor 213 meg drives,
[37m                 16 meg of RAM, A 486-DX2-66 mhz

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[34m                  BBS Name - Legal Ease BBS
[34m                   Phone # - 509-326-3238
[34m                     Nodes - 3 public nodes are available
[34m               Modem speed - All nodes run USRobotics HST Dual Standards
[34m                             running at 16,800.
[34m              Fees charged - No fee for basic access.  Extended access
[34m                             available on many levels.
[34m         BBS Storage space - 7 Gigabytes inc. HD and CD-Rom
[34m                     Sysop - Bill Sorcinelli


[34m*Note
[37mThe main body of text in this article came from a reply I received from Bill
[37mwhen I asked about more information on his BBS.  It was well put together and
[37mI decided to leave it as you see it with only minor changes.

[31m-[34mTL[31m-
