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From: jlombardo@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: iii's and TV on a Sony 1304?
Date: 29 Jul 92 11:33:12 -0500
Summary: Can I play TV images on my Sony 1304 monitor?

Does anyone know of a way to play regular TV images through a Sony 1304
monitor?  I have a standard 9-pin plug on the back of the monitor but no other
video-in plugs.  Does anyone make an adapter for such a use?  Also, would it be
easier to convert signals from a VCR rather than from regular coaxial cable
since the VCR has already decoded the composite NTSC signal?  Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.
-Joe
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: "flicker" and monitors
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:17:20 GMT
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

In a message dated Wed 29 Jul 92  1:04, Unruh@physics.ubc.ca (william Unruh
wrote:

 UU> 've been looking at some color monitors (svga) and get some wierd
 UU> effects. In particular in many stores, the white windows background 
 UU> seems to flicker- at VGA, at 800X600 but not at 1000X700 interlaced.
 UU> That same monitor will not flicker in another store, or even when
[edited]

What was the lighting like in the various locations?  I'll bet the store
where you saw the flicker had lots of bright unshielded florescent bulbs
which flicker something awful at 60Hz.  Combine this with the monitor's
refresh rate and I'll bet the glare from the lights was sync'ing with the
monitor at your assumed 10Hz.  Those big cheap florescent lights often
found in commercial locations are pretty efficient strobes and screw up how
a lot of things appear in a more normal setting.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ankleand@mtl.mit.edu (Andrew Karanicolas)
Subject: Help with Video System on IBM PC XT
Keywords: IBM PC XT, Audio Precision, Video, Video System
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:56:53 GMT

Hello,

I've got an IBM PC XT in lab that I would like to use with an Audio
Precision (AP) System One signal generator and DSP processor.

The machine has 640K of memory, 10M hard disk drive, 5.25'' floppy
drive and uses an Amdek amber monochrome video monitor model 310A.

I cannot presently run the AP s1.exe control program correctly.  When
I try to, the hard disk is busy loading the program, then the screen
goes blank and the machine just hangs.  On a Dell316SX with color
monitor it works fine.  The AP manual says that a 640K PC XT is
sufficient to run s1.exe.  I don't believe I have any other resident programs.
(I can't tell with the "mem" command, is this because of DOS 3.0 which
is what I am running on the XT?)  The program does not require a mouse
though it is recommended for ease menu cycling.

The XT works fine, for now :), it would be nice to employ it for
dedicated use with the AP generator.

The Audio Precision manual lists the following graphic systems as
compatible with the AP control program:

	DISPLAY ADAPTER					RESOLUTION

	HERCULES MONOCHROME				720 X 348
	CGA, COLOR-COMPATIBLE MONOCHROME		640 X 200
	CGA, COLOR					320 X 200
	MCGA, ANALOG MONO				640 X 480
	MCGA, ANALOG COLOR				640 X 480
	EGA, MONO					640 X 350
	EGA, COLOR-COMPATIBLE MONO			640 X 200
	EGA, COLOR					640 X 200
	EGA, ENHANCED 64K				640 X 350
	EGA, ENHANCED > 64k				640 X 350
	VGA, ANALOG MONO				640 X 480
	VGA, COLOR MONITOR				640 X 480
	TOSHIBA 3100 PLASMA				640 X 400

(1) Is the video system I presently have among any of these choices?

(2) Can the XT be upgraded to any of the above choices by adding on a
new video card with the existing monitor?  I have seen some of the
above cards for less than $20 in the Computer Shopper.

(3) Can the XT be upgraded to any of the above choices by adding on a
new video card and a new monitor? :)

(4) Relating to above, is the Amdek 310A monitor capable of graphics?

(5) The machine has no mouse.  Can I add a mouse to this beast?

(6) The PC is running MSDOS version 3.0  Would it be a good idea to
upgrade to 5.0?  I have no room for windows on the hard disk however.

Please send e-mail if you can help.  I will post a followup article if
there is sufficient interest.

Thank you.

-- 
Andrew Karanicolas
MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory
ankleand@mtl.mit.edu
-- 
Andrew Karanicolas
MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory
ankleand@mtl.mit.edu
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From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Subject: Bustek-742 (EISA SCSI controller)
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:32:17 GMT

Hi netters,

although my last question about this controller didn't get any useful
answers. I will try it again.
I received an offer for an EISA system with the Bustek 742 controller.
This is fine. However, it is possible, that the system that will run
on this system won't support EISA harddisk controllers in the current release
but will be in one of the next's, I guess. So, my question is this:
	Is the Bustek-742 compatible with the Adaptec-1542 or can I configure
	it this way ?
	The DMA-speed shouldn't matter to the device-driver, right ?
	Or should I insist on the Adaptec-1742 controller which starts
	in Adaptec-1542 mode, instead ?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
Norbert Bladt.
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Phone: +41 31 999 65 52			FAX: +41 31 999 65 44
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From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
Subject: Scanner Advice
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:00:28 GMT
Distribution: USA
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA


   I'm in the market for a desktop scanner.  I also expect to
   buy a CDROM drive and a sound card in the next few months  
   as well.

   I want to do this is in a way that has the least likelihood
   of CONFLICTS and INCOMPATIBILITIES.

   I originally thought I would buy an HP Scanjet since they 
   make some very good scanners and I can get an employee discount.

   But HP has a weird, mutant, neither-fish-nor-fowl interface
   for these things.  It's kind of SCSI, but in a proprietary way
   that forces you to buy a card but which isn't standard enough to 
   support other SCSI devices or device drivers.  Nor can it use 
   standard SCSI.   This is well and truly bizarre and even though 
   I work here I'm not going to try to explain or defend it (I'm 
   in trouble now   8-)  )

   How do other scanners do it?

   Most of the "SCSI" interfaces on sound cards are hobbled, low 
   bandwidth ones which are only designed for CDROMs.   They usually
   lack the drivers and speed for anything faster.

   Most of my slots are filled -- I have a modem and two video cards,
   and two printers, and tape drive.  I don't have a lot of slots left.
   Lot of these cards have their own ROM BIOS's and special drivers 
   taking up precious address space in the upper memory area.

   Does anyone else here have a truly "stuffed" system?  Could you
   describe what you have and how you do/did it?


---peter


  

  

   
    
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rlw@elan (Robert Wald)
Subject: SVGA card memory maps
Summary: Questions of SVGA maps and chips
Keywords: SVGA graphics VGA
Organization: Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:27:34 GMT

  I'm hoping that someone can help me with a few questions about
SVGA stuff. I'll post a summary. Thanks.

- Its my understanding that on a 386 (or above) machine, the upper
memory area from 640-1024K is reserved for hardware, but if
there is no hardware card in a particular area, then the space
can be mapped to allow certain device drivers and buffers to use
this area, saving space in the 640K area for applications. I'm using
DR DOS 6.0, and I guess this is true for that and MS-DOS 5.0 and
other things using a 386 memory manager. This is just for confirmation,
or are there things to watch out for here?

- The real question. How can I tell which addresses are being reserved by
a SVGA card? I think that normally it should only grab 128K, but I can't
tell from the limited documentation if this is true for this particular card.
In fact, it implies that it wants A000-DFFF, which seems excessive, but
its not really clear if this is the real range, or if it applies at all times.
So is there something I can use to tell if I have to exclude this
area explicitly from the memory manager?

- This chip in the card is a Trident TVGA8900C, with a Quadtel ROM, but
I don't think that this determines the map. But I was wondering what the 
differences were between the major VGA chip types like the 8900, Trident
9000, Tseng labs ones, others. What are their characteristics and 
also, which can be altered to use more than 256 colors (which I have been
told can be done for some, but I don't know how).

Thanks


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From: risner@ms.uky.edu (James Risner)
Subject: Re: IDE 1806 cylin. formatting ? help
    <1992Jul22.171943.140@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:27:31 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle) writes:

>In article <1992Jul21.234244.2845@memstvx1.memst.edu> shenyk@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>>Just buy a new CP-30174E IDE drive
>>it's   4 heads,46 sectors. "1806" tracks ===> 170 MB (by the spec.sheet
>>d/l from Conner BBS)

>Are you sure you mean tracks...assuming you really mean cylinders, 
>4 heads * 1806 cylinders *46 sectors = 162Megs. (plus a little bit)

Actually to get this to coexist with fdisk you are required to use the
autoajusting geometry of
903 cylc, 8 heads, 46 sectors...

Braindamagement of days long gone places hard limits of 1024 cylcs, 64 sectors,
and 256 heads.  The only way around this is to lower the max head count, and
that is difficult to do since nothing is compatiable with your NEW fdisk
partitioning format... Why would the people who came up with the partitioning
scheme only allocate THREE BYTES to the cylc, sector AND head count?
THREE BYTES!!!!!

Risner
From: afshwrh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Wayne Hodgins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Genoa 5400 svga
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:02:52 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Environment Canada (CMC), Dorval, QC

Hi
I have a Genoa 5400 svga card with 512kb memory. The problem
is that test software (Infoplus,checkit,norton etc) indicates
only 256k mem. Does anyone know of jumper settings etc which
should be made to ensure that the 512k is recognized?
Thanks in advance
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob)
Subject: Re: Micronics address
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:33:13 GMT

Joaquim Jorge (jorgej@colossus.cs.rpi.edu) writes:
| Could somedy please post the address/telephone for Micronics ? They do not
| seem to have an 800-number listed.

  Micronics Computers Inc.
  232 E. Warren Avenue
  Fremont, California 94539

  (510) 651-2300
  1 (800) 659-5901
  Technical Support: (510) 651-2323
  FAX: (510) 651-5666
  ==

  Bob                                           Seattle, Washington
From: eric@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Eric Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: how to build your own PC?
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:57:19 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

AMD were advertising prototype designs for people wanting to design their 
own MS-DOS compatible PC.  I'd imagine C&T would also have similar stuff 
available.  Personally, I'd prefer to use a Motorola chip 8-)
--
eric@zen.maths.uts.edu.au  Eric Lindsay, Sch of Maths, Uni of Tech
Don't take life too seriously.
It is only temporary.
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From: bni@modulex.dk (Bent Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: OSI TP4/CONS on X.25 Network
Keywords: OSI TP4/CONS
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:22:29 GMT
Organization: A/S MODULEX, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hi netters,

I am looking for an OSI TP4/CONS implementation to be used on a X.25 network.

Our hardware platforms are IBM RISC System/6000 and IBM PS/2 with SCO UNIX.

Please help with information about hardware and software suppliers.

Thanks.
--
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A/S MODULEX                 Phone : +45 44 53 30 11
Hoerkaer 20                 Fax :   +45 44 53 30 74
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rcg1597@zeus.tamu.edu (GUYNN, RICHARD CARL)
Subject: Re: Weird problem with 486/33/256 motherboard
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: External cache problem
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:09:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.213838.21110@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, rvuori@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Rasmus Vuori) writes...
>Hi, I have a really weird problem with a 486dx 33MHz motherboard. The
>board was working just fine, but then it was moved into a new case, all
>SIMMs, controllers and expansion cards were replaced. 
>  
>Now the system started to crash after warming up for a couple of
>minutes. After the crash it does the memory check, but when it usually

	Did you take anti-static procedures?  If not, when you moved the board 
to the new case you have fried one of the chips.  As for the diagnosing without 
the simple pull and plug method, I'm afraid I haven't yet reached that stage in 
electronic development.  But I thought I would suggest a possible cause in any 
event.  Good Luck...

-Rick

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar 24 info wanted!!!
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:42:14 GMT

kb@jet.uk (Kenneth Blackler) writes:

>If you want a fast Windows board try the Diamond _Stealth_, or any other S3
>graphics board, their not so expensive. If you need the 24bit colour though
>I have no experiance. (I was sold a Speedstar24 a while ago on the 
>understanding ot was an S3 card. It isn't, or if it is then its a very
>slow one that only runs about 1.2 times as fast as an Orchid ProdesignerII,
>also the drivers I was supplied with were the wrong ones so I haven't been
>able to try out the 24bit colour modes.)
>Anyway I'm sending mine back for the Stealth board which is what I actually
>wanted!

Diamond and Orchid are about to release new S3 based boards that have
a 640x480x24bit mode.  I was told by the respective companies that
these boards will both be shipping in August (which means you'll probably
be able to buy one in Sept.).  The prices will be about the same as
the current S3 models.

Diamond is also releasing a new bard called the Speedstar 24X.  It will
be based on the Western Digital (Paradise) chipset and will incorporate
the WD 9031 GUI accelerator chip.  It will have hardware bitblt,
a hardware 8x8 pattern fill, and a hardware cursor (but no linedraw).
It will use DRAM and be capable of 640x480x24bit, 800x600x15bit (60hz),
1024x768x8bit (at 70 hz) and 1280x[960,1024]x4bit modes (interlaced).
It will come with some imaging software from Halo as well as some 
desktop thing called "birdseye" from Panacea.  You should be able
to buy one next month.  It will not cost much more than the current
Speedstar 24.

The thing that concerns me is that two boards that are so similar yet
so different costing about the same with similar names will make it
impossible for the add copy writers for the mail order houses to get
their adds straight.  You'll see something like, 

"Diamond Speedstar 24 hicolor SVGA graphics accelerator card......$199"

There's definitely an art to reading adds and figuring out what they
meat to say.

------------
Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: richard@bnr.ca (Richard A. Dault)
Subject: Game port/joystick info requested
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:52:50 GMT


Hi, I know this has been asked before, but here it is again anyways:

Could someone tell me the pinout for an ibm-compatible game port?
More specifically, I would like to know which pins from the game port connect
to which pins on the joysticks (joy 1 & 2).
I'm trying to build a Y gameport connector.

Thank you,
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From: cdw3455@cs.rit.edu (Craig D Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMD 386: COMPATIBLE W INTEL CHIP?
Date: 27 Jul 92 23:05:25 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

In article <1992Jul22.163517.17632@lgc.com>, mcm@zycor.lgc.com () writes:
>I would like to buy an AMD 386 computer. 
>I am concerned about whether the chip
>Advanced Micro Devices uses in this 
>machine is compatible with the Intel chip.
>
>Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>
>mcm@zycor.lgc.com

I have had an AMD386-40 for about 8 months now and have had no problem.
Every program I have ever run on the machine in question has reported
and Intel CPU and and Intel Math-co (The math-co has the Intel logo on it).

							-Woody

--
"Like candy, emotion: too much and sugar can turn to sand,
 you scream, but nobody touches your hand."	-DIO
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From: 882028s@dragon.acadiau.ca (Ghazali Shafie)
Subject: help : c.itoh tech support phone # & converting voltage
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 05:57:37 GMT


Hi, does naybody know the phone number for c.itoh tech support ?

I'm wondering is there any other way to use a printer which uses 115v
in a country that uses 240v other than using a step down transformer .

Thanks in advance

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar 24 info wanted!!!
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd. 
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:53:54 GMT

In article <64490@hydra.gatech.EDU> dsrekrg@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Gibson) writes:
>Anyone care to comment on the breadth of software support that 
>will develop for the Speedstar 24 (Tseng 4000 based)
>and the Speedstar 24X (Western Digital 9031 based)?  The 24X seems like 
>product with a short lifespan based on the anticipated Fall release of
>a 24-bit S3 board.
>-- 
Diamond is reachable on Compuserve , and America Online. 


-- 
Ken Germann		support@zeos.com 	Zeos International, Ltd.
	Press any key to continue.	Where is the 'any' key?
			
			Opinions expressed are my own.
From: sp@cs.city.ac.uk (S PAGE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Seagate ST1239A - Advice (on recovery)
Summary: Can this be reset to usable?
Keywords: low-level format, resetting
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:09:53 GMT
Organization: City University

Question about a a Seagate ST1239A that has been accidentally 
(and incorrectly) low-level formatted.

Is there a method of resetting the drive to a sensible (aka usable!)
state?

Thanks,

Stella
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steve Howell)
Subject: HELIO 1280-16 Graphics Video Card
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:47:47 GMT



Hello peoples..


	I have been checking out video cards that can handle a resolution
of 1280x1024 and have discovered a thing called a Helio 1280-16 turbo colour
card.


Does anyone know this card?, Is it a good piece of gear?.. whats it worth?
I would like to get some info on the card, and maybe a few opinions first,
before lashing out and buying one.

If you have any suggestions concerning video cards that can hack this 
resolution, id be pleased to hear them.



Thanks
Steve H

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: local bus
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:43:25 GMT

In an article storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Horatio Gadsplatt III) writes:
>The local bus Standard is qutie a viscious hack to allow PC
>users to continue to use their useless ISA cards, and at the same time,
>some new, faster 32bit cards.

Why do you say that?  Most systems with a true video/IDE local
bus place these devices on the cached CPU buses to operate
them at the best possible speed.  As should be evident from
the industry press, there are quite a few companies which have
video controllers which will interface directly to the cached
CPU bus and which result in extraordinary video performance.
Although the HD interfaces aren't as mature, it is only a
matter of time before you see combo chips which interface in a
similar manner.

I think you might be confusing simple bus speed-ups using
ordinary expansion cards with innovative descrete designs
which use the older controllers in a true local-bus
architecture.  Local bus has grown without much need of a
single standard... although nice, there will always be
companies like Intel who adopt their own standard and thus
open the door to others.

>and eventually just phase out the ISA standard bus.

This will never happen... in most systems there will always be
a need for an expansion bus and placing too many devices on
the local bus which don't really need the throughput is
wasteful of the system resources.  However, this might not be
so bad for portables which don't need much expansion anyway.


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From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: parallel port storage devices
Distribution: world
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:04:50 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

In a message dated Tue 21 Jul 92  0:06, Rry@tachyon.att.com (raghu Yadavall
wrote:

 RY> In article <1992Jul11.194453.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>,
 RY> dbarker@camins.camosun.bc.ca writes:
> Does anyone have any experience with a BackPack (dunno the correct
> spelling) tape backup system. I'm told it runs from the parallel port,

I can't speak directly about tape backups, but I have been using a parallel
port hard drive on an 8086 laptop for several months now.  It works very
well, and based on a subjective opinion, it transfers data nearly as fast
as a bus mounted controller.  The best part is I can move all my
applications and data to almost anyother DOS machine without violating any
licensing agreements.

I have found only two problems to date:

1- When I first print from an application that simultaneously sends init
codes to the printer while loading a printer driver overlay from the drive,
my Epson printer will hang and must be reset - then everything works fine
(this happens with MS-Works 2.0) for all subsequent printing.

2- If I download a file directly to the parallel port connected hard drive,
each time my comm program (Procomm Plus 1.1b) writes the receive buffer to
the file (every 10K or so), the next block transmitted will have an error
and must be re-transmitted.  I solved this on my laptop by doing all
downloads to floppy and transferring them to the hard drive later.

Since I doubt you will be using a tape system under either of the above
situations, it should perform very well for you.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
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