European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes computers tuesday october 11,1994getting Board with on Lin services allow users to leave a a bulletin by Sandra Sugawara Washington Post Washington at tax time accountants generally get swamped by Calls from clients. Brent Gallagher of Bel Aire md., has figured a Way to keep things Calmer. He set up his own electronic a bulletin  now when his clients have tax questions they can sign onto their computers and using a Telephone line and Modem electronically Post their queries at any Lime Day or night they can also a pick up tax bulletins he has left on the bulletin Board and Transfer them to their Home computers and read any messages other users might have left. A i needed a Way for clients to keep in touch with me 24 hours a Day seven Days a week a Gallagher said. Messages marked As private go right to him. Others can be read by All. Gallagher also has set aside an area of clients to advertise their businesses to each other and to Exchange advice. Once bulletin boards were frequented mainly by computer hobbyists calling locally run boards or National ones on the internet or for profit operations such As Compuserve and America online. But in the past few years thousands of companies Nave joined. Jim Harrer president of Mustang software inc. Of Bakersfield calif., which Sells software that ban turn a personal computer into a bulletin Board said sales of his Wildcat product have jumped to 11,000 last year from 3,900 copies in 1991. \ a a majority of that growth has come from corporations wanting to set up private bulletin boards or from Federal computer bulletin boards offer a variety of services. A Pabio state and local governments who find it an easy Way to make official documents available and answer questions from the Public he said. Wildcats major competitors include galactic comm a the major bus and Clark developments pc Board. A the Market has just taken off in the last two years a said Steve Klingler general manager of Clark development co. In Murray Utah. Prices for the systems Range from $130 to $12,000, depending on How Many people can connect at the same time and what other belts and whistles the software has. That can make it a relatively cheap and others. A a it a been great for business a said Gallagher who said some clients sign on every night. Norand corp., a manufacturer of hand held computers for tracking inventory has used a bulletin Board to help it Deal with a dramatic growth in overseas business. The company based in Cedar rapids Iowa was faced with customers in Japan who wanted to report problems at 1 . Iowa time customers in Australia who faced an irritating five Day wait to get software improvements by airmail and sales staff scattered throughput the world who needed Quick Access to company software for demonstrations said John Wagner of Norand. Now customers can leave messages at 1 . And sign on 24 hours later to find the answer. Salespeople and customers can if they have the proper Access codes Transfer new software Over Tele phone lines into their computers in about 15 minutes. The Board gets about 1,000 Calls a month Wagner said. A Board run by Leboeuf Lamb Greene amp Macrae a new York based Law firm gives clients instant Access to their own files said Douglas Starkey the Law firms information systems manager. Starkey said it took him a week to set up the Law firms system a with several Calls to the technical support staff of. Galactic omm. He said the major consideration for firms thinking of establishing bulletin boards is Security How to keep outsiders out of confidential files. His Board uses a password system to control Access. Tue pm a Rock station in Dayton Ohio uses its bulletin Board to try to reach out to the a younger group of kids out there who weren to trained to use touch tone phones to get their information. They were trained to use computers a said Tom Carroll the stations program director. A tue a bulletin Board has concerts and sporting events schedules that listeners can Transfer to their computers and print. Listeners also can Post questions for the radio station Ana Chat with other teen agers on the Board. It gets roughly 1,000 Calls a month comparable to the number of voice Calls from listeners the station receives. The difference Carroll said is that tue does not advertise its bulletin Board number on the air. The station took out a few print ads but mostly the number is passed by word of Mouth among teen agers he said. Carroll said the Board has enabled tue to a stay in touch with a whole different group of people who maybe  pick up the phone but who will log on to their computers to ask. When a certain band is coming to  Effort to Sarajevo stepped up Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr the United nations Laid on extra Aid flights to Sarajevo on monday in a race to replenish dwindling food stocks As the City a third Winter of siege approaches. Twenty Relief flights arrived with 290 tons of food and 20 More were scheduled for today said . Aid spokesman Kris Janowski. About 20 plan loads of food and supplies also arrived sunday the first full Day of flights to Sarajevo in More than two weeks bosnian serbs had forced the Airport to close and blocked . Land convoys to retaliate for a nato airstrike sept. 22 against one of their tanks near Sarajevo. . Commanders called the strike after serbian attacks on French peacekeepers. Though serbs finally agreed to let Relief flights resume . Officials remain fearful of another possible Airport shutdown. A we have to make up the lost time and to try to build up stocks which will be difficult because All warehouses Here Are empty a Janowski said. Frequent suspensions of the Airlift because of gunfire and serbs closure of the Only remaining land route into Sarajevo have left food stocks perilously Low. Sarajevo a 360,000 residents depend on the Airlift for 8q percent of their needs. Serbian Clampdown on . Convoys also have left . Forces with potentially a pallets of food Are unloaded from a . Air plane sunday in Sarajevo As a worker from the . High commissioner for refugees watches left. About 20 plan loads of Aid arrived sunday in an attempt to build up the bosnian capitals supplies for the Winter. Crippling fuel problems. Simmering anger has threatened to boil Over since peacekeepers discovered the corpses of of serbian soldiers and four nurses thursday near a demilitarized zone on mount i Man Southwest of Sarajevo. Some had Slit throats suffered in what the Muslim led government said was a commando raid in a serbian military Post. Infuriated serbs threatened retaliation and demanded that the Muslim led government army be punished. The . Commander in Bosnia it. Gen. Michael Rose met monday with the bosnian serbs commander Gen. Ratko Mladic in a bid to defuse tensions and restore Freedom of movement for . Convoys. Sarajevo was fairly quiet monday but residents remained. Somber in the aftermath of sniping saturday that killed one Man and wounded 11 people including five children. Bosnian troops possibly retaliating fired at serbian civilians sunday in Vojkovich Southwest of Sarajevo wounding two women. The attacks prompted a protest from Rose who urged both sides a to take All appropriate measures to identify and prosecute the perpetrators of such crimes,"u.s. Scientists share Nobel for Medicine Stockholm Sweden apr two americans Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell won the Nobel prize in Medicine on monday for their discovery of How cells talk to each other. The scientists working separately in the 1960s and 1970s, first identified elements called a proteins and the role they play in turning external signals into action within cells said the Nobel Assembly at Sweden a Karolinsky Institute. Disturbances in the a proteins functions a too Many or too few of them a can Lead to disease. That discovery led scientists to Trace the disturbances to some common diseases such As diabetes and alcoholism. Mutated and overactive a proteins also Haye been found in some tutors and skeletal deformations the statement said. A due to the discoveries of Gilman and Rodbell and their work several laboratories turned to research in this area. Therefore we now know a great Deal about the functions of a proteins and How they control the activities of the cell a the statement said. Gilman 53, currently works in the department of pharmacology at the University of Texas in Dallas. Rodbell 69, works at the National Institute of environmental health sciences in North Carolina. They will share the prize which is Worth about $930,000. The award is to be handed Over in a ceremony on dec. 10 in Stockholm