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From: noel@reg.triumf.ca (NOEL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Why memory costs doubled
Date: 9 Nov 1992 16:24 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: world
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Keywords: price ram memory
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

	I am still peaved that RAM prices have doubled overnight seamingly
all over N. America and the reasons I'm getting from marketing people don't
wash.  They are still blaming the American Protectionist bill and saying that
their cost from the distributers has gone up.  Something is very fishy.  From
what I can tell the bill was only calling for 20% hike and it hasn't even
passed yet and it wasn't due to go into effect until April 93.  Why it should
ever effect Canadian prices is questionable to begin with, even more so when
the price rises ahead of any legislation.  It stinks of speculation and price
fixing.  Why not hoard ram chips just before Christmas and a possible American
legislation and see what the market will bear.  If the bill does go through,
then somebody has made a 20% profit on investment, even more if the shortage
has caused the price to go even higher.  I guess I'm committed to wait this
one out until the price drops back down to a reasonable level.  Maybe ram
prices were very low but 100% increases are !#@$!@# $%^& and I'm pissed off.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ternlund@CS.ColoState.EDU (John Ternlund)
Subject: Prntr
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:13:16 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University


  Has anyone successfully been able to hook up an Imagewriter II (Apple)
printer to thier IBM?  How did you do it?  What are the pinouts on the
IBM and Apple end? Does the printer port on the IBM side have a send/GND/
etc which is always the same?

All opinions expressed or otherwise implied are my own.
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                                               Colorado State University
Internet: ternlund@mozart.cs.colostate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bernhard@mauiii.enet.dec.com (Bernhard Carli)
Subject: Compaq Portable 386 HD-Upgrade, how?
Reply-To: bernhard@mauiii.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment GmbH, Munich FRG
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:35:18 GMT



I have a COMPAQ Portable 386 with ROM-Revision J4 
It currently has a 40 Meg At-BUS HD. Is there a way to
upgrade this beast to more than 100 Meg? I don't mean the
COMPAQ upgrade - they charge you for a 110 Meg upgrade $1400
(in Germany) They don't have User Defined Types in their BIOS
Any experiences ?

Thanks,
	Bernhard   
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ralf@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ralf Grohmann)
Subject: forgotten partition table
Keywords: 486AT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:42:39 GMT

Hi, folks!

A friend of mine has a problem with his 486-AT and his HD. It seems as 
if his board (means something ON his board) forgets the partition dates 
every time he boots up his AT. The floppy drives work fine, and the 
controller and the HD also work fine in another (286)-Computer.

Anybody an idea?

Please send replies to RY45@IBM3090.RZ.UNI/KARLSRUHE.DE

thanx, ralf

-- 
Ralf Grohmann
Micro-BIT, Rechenzentrum Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
ralf@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de
****** Q: What's big, red and eats sockets? ******
****** A: A big, red, socket eater!         ******
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tld@moon.base.bellcore.com (Terry Davidson)
Subject: Re: Need Help with Monitor Selection
Reply-To: tld@cosmos.bellcore.com
Organization: Bellcore
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 18:48:06 GMT

In article <1du026INNp21@network.ucsd.edu>, doug@cahuilla.ucsd.edu (Doug Peckham ) writes:
|>     Hi,
|> 
|>     Does anyone have any experience with a Viewsonic 8 20" SVGA monitor.  I
|> am purchasing a 486/50 system for electronics CAD use, and that is the monitor
|> that two seperate vendors have suggested.  The NEC 6FG appears to cost about
|> $900 more, and I'm curious what that really buys you besides a small increase 
|> in size (21").  Thanks for any direction that you can provide me.
|> 
|>     Doug

Hi, Doug:

My $0.02 worth:  Viewsonic.

Main reasons are (1) independent reviews rate Viewsonic above equivalent
NECs in *most* (not all) cases; e.g. Infoworld, Infocomm, Comp. Shopper,
etc., and (2) I use a Viewsonic 6 myself and *love* it.

Things to look for:  Refresh rate (higher nums are better),
vertical/horizontal frequency (again, higher frequency ranges are better).,
*dot pitch* (The smaller, the better - .28 is good, .25 is better),
location of controls - can they be accessed easily ?  And, how *many*
controls?  Can you adjust not only screen intensity, but also horizontal
and vertical positions?  Can you *expand* the screen vertically and
horizontally?  My V6 lets me do all this using the wheels on the *front*
of the crt...

I'm not sure, but I think the V8 is .28 dot pitch; it *might* be .25.
I've seen one displayed, and was suitably impressed; but I did not 
actually get to run my own VGA tests on the beast.

Hope this helps!
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From: swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: FAQ? Juggling card IRQ's
Date: 12 Nov 1992 23:03:42 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: boogie.cs.utexas.edu

Is there an FAQ list for this group?  I don't normally read this
group, but now I have a question that I'm almost certain has been
discuessed to death.  If there's no FAQ list, please help me out if
you have experience with this problem:

In a Gateway 486, I want to use COM1 (IRQ4), COM2 (IRQ3), LPT1(IRQ7),
a Farallon LocalTalk card with LocalTalk PC software and a NE2000
ethernet card with Clarkson drivers.  After having conflicts between
the two network cards, on the advice of Farallon, I set the LocalTalk
card to be interrupt driven using IRQ2 (it can also use 3 or 4, but
they're taken by the serial ports).  The default setting of the
ethernet card is IRQ3, but this conflicts with COM2.  It can
alternatively use IRQ 2, 4 or 5.  Since I don't have an LPT2 hardware
port, I thought IRQ5 would be a safe choice.  However, the LocalTalk
software assigns printer output to the *name* LPT2; when I try to
print to the printer connected via LocalTalk, I get a message that
LPT2 is in use by another device.  Both common sense and Farallon
dictate that the LocalTalk software is not actually using LPT2; in
fact, the same thing happens if I assign the LocalTalk output to LPT3.
Can anyone help me figure out what is going on here, and what my ideal
setup for IRQ's for the different cards is?

Thanks for any info.

	Janet


-- 
Don't take life so serious ... it ain't *no how* permanent. -- Porkypine.
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: What about this ULSI 387 co-processor
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:30:40 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Can someone tell me about this ULSI 80387 (40MHz) co-processor?
A friend of mine just bought it and since I never heard of it
I was wondering if it is a well known 80387 clone, if there are
any known incompatibilities and such.

Erik



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From: K.Wayne.Thomas@williams.edu (Wayne Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: NEED info about Amptron 386DX/or manual for-Ooops!
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:38:08 GMT
Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
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X-Xxdate: Thu, 12 Nov 92 22: 40:11 GMT
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RE: NEED info about Amptron 386DX/or manual for -- Oops!

I sent the previous message; replies should be sent to me (or left here).
And I hate people who check the "save name and password" option on the
mail/news handler!

 -Wayne
	 K.Wayne.Thomas@williams.edu
From: jleon@usc.edu (Juan Carlos Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Do you know this memory card? Please help me!!!
Date: 8 Nov 1992 20:34:32 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

Hi there, I need some help.  I just got an used memory card from my cousin
it is a slow kind of memory board but it comes with 3megs and I think I
can install it and use this memory as a ramdisk.

The problem is that my cousin doesn't have the manual and he doesn't know
too much about it.  I need to configure this board as expanded memory so that
Windows will not use this memory, but without the manual I don't know how to
set de dip switches.

Please if anybody recognize this card help me!!!.

Here's a diagram of it:


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|                                                        -----   ----- |
|  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX | SW2 | | SW3 ||
|  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  -----   ----- |
|  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX XXX   |
|  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  -----   XXX   |
|  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX | U15 |        |
|  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX |     |        |
|  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  -----   XXX   |
|  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXXX      |
|  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXX  XXX XXXX      |
|            -----                                                     |
| XXXX XXX  | SW1 |      (twelve more chips down here)                 |
|      XXX   -----                                                     |
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
                                      |________||________________|

it has 6 banks of 18 ram chips.
SW1 has 10 contacts
SW2 & SW3 have 8 contacts each one.

U15 is a socketed square chip and it says the following:

L1A3072
EVEREX
ICC00120-0
TAG 8950 ^
12065 HONG KONG

Please i'll really apreciate your help.

Juan Leon.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Why memory costs doubled
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:17:14 GMT

phillip@kiwi.gen.nz (Phillip Hardy) writes:

>noel@reg.triumf.ca (NOEL) writes:
>: 	I am still peaved that RAM prices have doubled overnight seamingly
>: their cost from the distributers has gone up.  Something is very fishy.  
> 
>Ok the same thing has happened here in New Zealand...two weeks ago i could get 1meg simms for NZ$60 and this week they are $80....the reason i was given was 
>something about the Korean ram haveing a higher import duty imposed on it in the States and that all the importers where now chasing the Japanese produced RAM 
>So with everyone getting the Japanese RAM the prices have gone up..Supply and 
>Demand I guess...

NO!  Not supply and demand; you are unfortunately paying for the result of
the U.S. Government initiating the use of force to collect fees for which no
service of value is provided, i.e. you are an indirect victim of extortion.
In the U.S. now, rather than act to secure individual rights (the sole
purpose for which it was chartered), the government "works" by granting
benefits to one group at the forced expense of others, in this case
certain business interests found it easier to complain than to compete.
Granted, the Koreans were "dumping" at below cost, but people who are not
so shortsighted would realize that "what goes around comes around".  The
kneejerk reaction, unfortunately, was to initiate the use of force in order
to placate a body of future votes for those in office.  This means that we
all lose; once more the well-being of the producer being sacrificed at
gunpoint (figuratively) for the well-being of the parasite.

-JTT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: klomp@tokyo.seri.philips.nl (Ernst Klomp)
Subject: PRINTER PORT PROBLEMS
Organization: SERI-CEN Network Services, Philips C&P, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:14:25 GMT


I did build my own speech synthesiser, this interfaces via the printer port.
The STROBE and BUSY signals are used for handshaking between the printer-
port and speech-card.
The program was written in Borland C/C++ (writing to stdprn). Everything works
fine, but now I have DOS5.0 installed, I get a Abort, Retry, Ignore Fail error.
I there something wrong with the hardware of the interface ?
Copying a bin-file to LPT1 with the B option gives the same problem.


Thanks for the help.


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Ernst klomp 						BSO/AT Eindhoven &
							Philips Semiconductors
klomp@tokyo.sce.philips.nl
From: poe@wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Microlab is a rip-off!!!  BEWARE!!!
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:56:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <83386@ut-emx.uucp>, reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu (Alireza Vali) writes:
> I posted an article yesterday about ordering a Diamond 24X and receiving
> a Stealth VRAM for the same price ($159).  The company I ordered from is
> Microlab.  After installing the Stealth, I realized it only supports
> 32K colors at 640x480 and not at 800x600.  I decided to go ahead and send
> it back for the 24X.  Here's a brief summary of my conversation with the
> salesman who sold me the card:
> 
[Dialog deleted]
I had a similar experience with Microlab, I believe I spoke to Jon as well.
I called to order the 24X, after seeing the $149 price in clari.streetprice.
I was told the 24X was on back order and cosat $169. He then said 
"We have the Stealth, which is a faster card in Windows..."
(Benchmarks show the 24X to consistently beat the Stealth)
I told him that I heard otherwise, and I really needed DOS performance as
well (Primarily). His response?:

"What, you still use _DOS_?"

After a brief flame, he offered a lower price on the Stealth, I said forget it,
as I wouldn't order anything from them. IMHO, BEWARE MICROLAB!!!

Phil.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior)
Subject: Re: [I]diots [B]uilt [M]e
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:56:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.154724.92@cuphub.cup.edu> buc5045@cuphub.cup.edu writes:
>>>--------pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu----(614) 621-8240----------------
>>>Paul A. Prior    Ban anchors, not reef tanks    Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus  
>>>3rd year medical student		          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>The Ohio State U. College of Medicine   Tobacco Kills- Please don't smoke!
>
>Nuke gay whales for Jesus?  -> What does this mean MAN?

It's a bumpersticker I saw; sort of a condensed compolation of all the
cliche social causes into one simple phrase.  And if you want to know
more why don't you send me some email instead of echoing it all over
the world on this thread.


>
>Lord Dread - California Univ. of PA.
>
>"Some people say that life is an illusion and that reality is a figment of the
>immagination..." - but, if this is true then who's dreaming all this?


-- 
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Paul A. Prior    Ban anchors, not reef tanks    Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus  
3rd year medical student		        
The Ohio State U. College of Medicine   Tobacco Kills- Please don't smoke!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mgoodman@nyx.cs.du.edu (mack goodman)
Subject: Help me Identify this Voice Recognition Device ** VOTAN  **
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 16:34:56 GMT

Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Keywords: 


Me again.  This time it's a VOTAN  VTR6050  voice recognition system?
Can someone tell me what this is for and if it is worth anything today?

This unit has 2 com ports on it and a Microphone input place.

Also has a 3.5 inch disk drive.

Thanks for any help.

Mack
mdgoodma@crdec8.apgea.army.mil


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
From: mats@netcom.com (Mats Wichmann)
Subject: Re: fax/phone switch
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:35:42 GMT

dfh@dwroll.att.com (D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040) writes:

>>> switch.  It was supposed to automatically route fax calls to the
>>> fax/modem board in my PC.
>>> Can some kind soul recommend a brand and model of a switch that will
>>> reliably route fax/modem calls to the right place?  Are there any
>>> special features other than automatic routing for these types of
>>> devices?
>>> 
>I just received a catalog from DAK that offers what appears to be
>a third type of fax switch.  The description in the DAK catalog is
>not exceptionally clear (is that a surprise?) but this is what the
>thing *appears* to do:

etc..

I bought of of these, and it didn't work out.  It mostly worked as
claimed (it was great anwering), but had some fatal flaws.  It would
sometimes grab the line as I picked up the phone to dial out, and I
never could get a dialtone from my fax machine (which is somewhat odd -
it's an HP Laserjet Fax) to call out.  Nobody at DAK could figure this
out, so back it wetn...
-- 
Mats Wichmann
Unisoft Corporation
mats@unisoft.com (or mats@netcom.com)

Silly Disclaimer:  speaking only for myself, except when I'm not.
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Format 3.5 DD floppy as a HD, is it reliable?
Date: 8 Nov 92 19:07:18 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization


>PS/2's didn't check for the hole because there was a bug in the controller
>software for the floppy.  Some other computer manufacturers had the same 
>problem because they built with the same buggy specs.  New PS/2's do NOT
>allow this anymore, to the best of my knowledge.

My Model 90 at work allows it just fine.  So do the TEAC drives in my clone.
As a matter of fact, I haven't heard of a PC which DOES check for the HD
hole. 

>Do *NOT* format double density disks at high density if you value your data.
>I've had several users at my site lose Lotus spreadsheets/databases within
>6 months of writing the file because their PS/2's allowed them to mis-format
>their disks (the current record for data self-degradation is two weeks).

I have had the same experience.  I've seen many people end up with trashed
data as a result of formatting a DD disk as HD.  I advise STRONGLY AGAINST
it.
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From: at887@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Butler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Zeos blues
Date: 12 Nov 1992 19:42:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Reply-To: at887@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Butler)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


I've noticed some of the threads regarding Zeos and thought I'd put my two
cents in.

I ordered a Pocket PC along with the communications package in September.
It took Zeos a full two months to get the system to me, despite several
promises of "about 10 days".  I was puzzled by the salesperon's seemingly
complete lack of interest in returning any of my phone calls.  On the few
occasions I *did* manage to get through to him (he actually picked his
phone up), I got a complete runaround followed by....no followup at all!
Pretty strange stuff, especially since I work for a very large Fortune 500
company and had ordered it as an evaluation unit for work.

When the PC arrived, there was no fax/modem package in sight; it wasn't
even on the invoice.  For some reason, when I called Zeos they redirected
my question to tech support, who then took 24 hours to get back to me.
Then, all I got was "sorry, the modem's back ordered or two weeks", despite
the fact that I ordered it *two months ago!!*.

I can't imagine any company behaving this way towards customers and lasting
very long, regardless of how well their products perform.  The bottom line:
the system is pretty good, the company falls far short in customer
service.  Clean it up, Zeos!

--
From: GRS00010@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (Shannon R. Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help with upgrading memory
Date: 9 Nov 1992 06:05:51 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: alf.appstate.edu
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

	I am considering upgrading my RAM from 1 meg to 2 meg.  However,
I am having difficulty figuring out how.  I have a 286-12 DTK.  The BIOS
is Datatech 286 BIOS Ver 3.26.  The systems manual does not say how to
upgrade memory.  I did upgrade 640k to 1 meg last year by replacing
two 64k banks with 256k chips.  The manual did list a DIP setting for
1 meg and that is all.  So, my question is - can somebody help?  I have heard
a little about SIMM and memory boards.  Will those work if I do not have
a memory bank to put extra chips on the motherboard?  I do have plenty
of expansion slots.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Please send
e-mail as I do not read this group often.  


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