HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: A1200 and LD vs HD (marketing? what marketing?)
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:28:05 GMT

jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:

>Quoth sl1zm@cc.usu.edu:
>]> > 
>]> > 	"Are you here to buy a computer or a disk drive?"
>]> > 
>]> > So on and so forth...
>]> 
>]> Sorry, it's a little different in real life.

>Sorry, but been there, done that.  I spent quite some time in the trenches
>locally.  Decided RIGHT AWAY that there was no real need to try to sell
>someone something they didn't want.  It leads to more headaches than it's
>worth.  The bottom line with me is that if they are more interested in
>minute details like the floppy drive, it's a lost cause.  If you want to
>sell the computer, SELL THE COMPUTER.

He's absolutely right, though.  If treated in an insulting manner, I'd go
to the Better Business Bureau, the local + state Chambers Of Commerce, and
call the companies for whom you were a dealer and tell them what I thought 
of your services in no kind terms.

So, if the person asks if the computer comes with a high-density drive and 
if not could it be fitted with one, the best course of action is *not* to
insult him/her.  It could come back to haunt you later.

>Otherwise, maintain good relations with one or two good peecee dealers, and
>route them to these dealers.  At least they won't go around claiming you
>ripped them off...

Good point.  Or try selling them an Amiga that comes with an HD drive.

>Mail order companies that undercut local dealer's _cost_!
>Sears selling 500's in direct competition to thier dealers, at a lower
> price than they could afford.

I haven't seen Sears selling Amigas ... maybe that's a regional thing.

>Refusal to price protect dealers.
>Hefty startup costs.
>Refusal to buy back or upgrade outdated stock.
>Information channels just this side of carrier pigeon technology.
>Ignorance of current hot topics (networking?  Sure it can do it.. uh, what
> do we need?)
>Lousy parts support net.
>Lousy tech training.

I know of one or two Amy dealers that couldn't tell an asymptote from a hole
in the graph ...

DISCLAIMER:  My opinions only ... CU can't afford to buy 'em.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
Subject: Re: Is A2065 Ethernet adapter compat with A4000?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:40:22 GMT
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Organization: Universitt Bielefeld, Technische Fakultt

In article <pl159410.721603570@academ01> pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Alejandro Garza Gonzalez) writes:
> The title says it all. I heard that some Zorro II boards arent
> too comfortable on an A4000, so the question is raised...

 The A2065 is a Zorro II card, but this should not be a problem for the A4000.
 Ok, it can't use the full bandwith then.
 I heard of several guys running the A2065 in an A4000 with no problem.
 This weekend i hope to test the card in an A4000, and will be able to tell
 more. My Amiga (2500 alike) is connected to the Internet with a 2065 right now.

>
> Also, any suggestions on networking A2000/3000/4000s thru
> ethernet with themselves and UNIX systems would be appreciated.

 Use the TCP/IP package for the Amiga, called AS225 (where ist the new release?!)
 there is no other way to connect the card to a Unox machine than that way.
 For instance you can use ftp, telnet, rlogin, nfs (client only) and more.
 Beware, Amiga has no multiuser-OS, there are no restrictions on the Amiga-side
 for users.

 I really hope that the AS225 will be _heavily_ overworked, the software
 is ... not nice, tho it tend to be surprisingly stable.

 Go for WB3.1, network facilities included...

>
> Byers
> ============================================================================
> | Alejandro Garza / (83)38-46-86 / Monterrey, Mexico ::  ^^^^^;            |
> | JanusMan- IRC ::  pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx   ::  ('') ; (the hell?)|

 Ah, it's you, Janusman, havent' recognised your realname :)

 Markus
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: schilli@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Burkhard Schillinger)
Subject: Re: Kick 2.0 for A1000, how?
Keywords: A1000
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:44:39 GMT

anm@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Andreas Mueller) writes:

>Is it possible to use the Kick 2.0 in the A1000?
>Regarding my motherboard, there are two sockets which are 
>unused (even second and odd second).
>Is there a discription (hack) available?
> 
>Thanks in advance

The German "Amiga Magazin" describes exactly how to do this in its 
November issue.  For more details, please read my posting on 
bit.listserv.i-amiga,
or drop me a personal mail. 
-Burkhard.
From: mojo@diku.dk (Morten J|hnk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Upgrading an A500
Date: 23 Nov 92 10:05:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

tschille@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Thorsten Schiller) writes:

>Greetings...

>Reconsidering my finances (*groan*) I realize that my plans of purchasing an
>A4000 are, well, toast. So, for the next year I think I'm stuck with my pitiful
>500. SO.... at least I want to pump a bit of money into it in the hopes of at
>least being able to do something productive with it (20 minute compiles
>have got to go).

>My first thought is to buy GVP's new A530 (68030 + 120 meg HD).  But, the
>120 Meg (largest that seems to be available) is a bit short on HD space (I
>am also running a BBS)... so, now I'm torn between getting a Syquest 88 Meg
>removable drive (this drive can be attached to the A530's scsi passthru, can't
>it?) or the AdIde and get rid of my internal floppy. Which offers the better
>solution? I've heard a few bad thing about the syquest drives and IDE speaks
>for itself (some things are better mute :) ). Are there other alternatives
>that I'm not considering?  Is there an easy way to attach another scsi drive
>to the A530 controller and just have the second drive in "yet another"
>external case?

The A530 is a good idea, mine runs like a dream ... 
There is an easy way to attach another SCSI drive to the A530. You have
to buy a SCSI cable (a 25 pin thing), an extra SCSI drive and a power supply.
In the mnaual for the A530 it is shown how to connect external SCSI units
via the SCSI-port.

>Lastly, I've inquired about this a couple of times in the past, but might as
>well throw it in once again for good measure :) Is there any easy way of adding
>an additional serial port to the 500 without resorting to the hardware hack 
>that's floating around? I would love to have a second port, however the
>hardware hack would be a bad idea considering my harware skills *grin*

Nope.

>Please reply by email since my feed tends to be down a lot.  I will summarize
>to the net if anyone would like and/or I get any response :-)

>Thorsten

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From: sticht@edith.deg.sub.org (Stefan Sticht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 2090 w/ 2.0?
Distribution: world
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:33:21 MET
Organization: private

In article <Bxxsy1.C4E@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK)) writes:
>
>I know this is a FAQ, but I can't seem to find the list anywhere.  Does the
>2090 work under 2.0?  I plan to trade for one soon and I'd like to know if
>it's going to work on my 2000 under 2.0.

It works fine.

Gruss, Stefan
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Idea with the 1200
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:27:50 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <pad.721977666@probitas> pad@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Paul A Daniels) writes:
> 
> 	The 1200 has a very extensive port in the trap door.
> As ZorroIII can run ZorroII cards and ZorroII is has a compatable pin
> out to the old 500. Is it feesable to run a connector from the trapdoor
> of the 1200 that could use an 500 peripheral?

No, since the internal bus is a 14MHz "68020" bus, not a 7MHz "68000" bus.

> 	Can this line of attack be taken one step futher, with termination
> could you infact add a number of ZorroIII slots, or is there soemthing missing?

You might be able to design a bus converter/buffer card that would do the
neccessary electrical gyrations, but unless you pop the board out of the A1200
casework and mount it in an expansion box, then you would have real mechanical
design problems.

I'm sure some folks will try this, but I'd have to recommend getting one of
the systems we sell with slots already included...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
Subject: Re: Chip RAM Accelerator?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:04:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.191056.29476@athena.mit.edu> fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei) writes:
>"The Fast Lane Chip RAM acclerator & 2Mb chip ram expansion removes the
>biggest bottleneck in the Amiga - slow access to chip RAM. TFL gives super-
>fast access to display memory by allowing the CPU & custom chips to access
>chip ram transparently and simultaneously. Works with 1 & 2Mb Agnus chips.
>With TFL unaccelerated machines can access display ram at the same speed as
>fast RAM. Acclerated Amiga willl have up to 3 times this bandwidth (depending
>on how they access the Amiga address space) The Speed Demon CPU Acclerators
>from BKP will access CRAM at the blinding speed of 21.6 Mb/sec (6x the
>bandwidth of fast ram)."

How could the processor access chip RAM faster than Fast RAM, unless they're
deliberately slowing fast RAM access? Or is the 6x figure compared to 68000 
fast RAM? (that 21.6 Mb/s seems awfully fast though, if its megaBYTES..)
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From: in2a505@rzaixsrv1.rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Elvers)
Subject: Re: 4000 problems! PLEASE READ
Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
Date: 17 Nov 92 12:05:46 GMT

c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Oliver Erik Seiler) writes:


>> Also when I hit CTRL-A-A to reboot the hard drive parks and spins-down
>> then back up again. (seems kinda weird)!

>Yes it does... :)

Nope... It's normal! It's called reset ;)

  - Andreas

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: benw@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (bennett.weber)
Subject: BackPack Tape Drive Support?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:50:38 GMT

My department may be getting some "Backpack" tape drives at work to back up
our PC clones...the Backpack attaches to the parallel port (no scsi, etc).
And I'd be able to take it home now and then to back up my Amiga.
Hey, it's not my first choice in tape drives, but the price is
right!

Anyway, does anyone know if there's a driver to handle this thing,
or whether any of the current backup utilities knows about it?


						Thanks,
						Ben Weber

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Not speaking for AT&T
------------------------------
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:31:53 -0500 
From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.hardware: 21-Nov-92 Re: Floppy size
in 1200? by Don Burnett@emunix.emich 
>  Tell me has anyone here seen the rampant copying of game cartridges??
>  Please tell me when and where...

I have seen it done by a few people.  There are disk units made in hong
kong just for this purpose.  There are people who just go to a video
store, rent a few games, copy them onto disks (many of the units read
and write ibm style 3.5s, so you can leave a large collection on a hard
drive or whatever).  I think that there is a FAQ about these devices in
one of the netnews bases, but I don't follow the ins and outs of game
piracy enough to pay attention.

alex
From: Don_Grout@saug.UUCP (Don Grout)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 1.2mb IBM floppy
Distribution: world
Date: 14 Nov 92 23:15:36 CST
Organization: Saskatoon Amiga Users' Group (Canada)

Anyone know of a hack to get a 1.2mb IBM floppy drive to work on an A500? 
Yes, I said and mean 1.2mb 5-1/4" and NOT 1.44mb 3-1/2".

Just curious as I've got one sitting here....

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jbronk26@uther.calvin.edu (Joseph Bronkema)
Subject: Re: Transputers, Amigas, CSA (was Re: Multiprocessing)
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:04:49 GMT

bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

>        I have one of the CSA Transputer Education Kits at home and I for
>one would *love* to be able to add a transputer card to an Amiga. As it
>is, the closest option is to by an A2000, 3000 or 4000 and a bridgeboard,
>then plug the transputer card into the PC bus and drive it from the
>bridgeboard (not quite the same thing as being directly on the Zorro
>bus). Perhaps we aught to ask CSA to make an Amiga version, they make
>other Amiga stuff (such as accelerator cards). The first thing I'd do
>with it is port Rayshade. 8-)

Actually, there was a Zorro II transputer board made by MicroWay, I believe.
I haven't seen them advertise this fact lately, but I know they used to.
You might want to get in touch with them and see if they still make them, 
or if they don't, if they at least have some remaining in stock that you
could get ahold of.

>           Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au  OR  bull@monu1.cc.monash.oz
>                    DOD# 251  '84 VF 750   Closet Ducatisto
>             Disclaimer. If you love your llama, let it lambada.

						Joe Bronkema
						jbronk26@calvin.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
Subject: Re: A1200 keyboard (A600 owners?)
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:10:33 GMT

In article <13562@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF) writes:
>In <10014@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
>peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Nov4.143513.17319@decuac.dec.com>
>>bell@ufp.enet.dec.com () writes:
>>>
>>>Hi.  I got the A1200.gif, and I notice that the A1200 keyboard is
>>>different from my A500 by two keys.  
>
>>European keyboards (for all those accented characters) have these two
>>extra keys standard. Perhaps they chose in manufacturing to build only
>>one sort of keyboard, so that the US version now gets two white/empty
>>keys? I think, it's this way at least with the A600, perhaps the same
>>with the A1200. (Didn't see US production units yet, and won't for some
>>time, I assume. :-)
>
>In the U.K. also, the 1200 extra keys are white with nothing mapped
>onto them, bloody useful for commodities though!

Ohh....
That I would've just loved on my keyboard.....
Some special keys just for commodities so I wouldn't need to worry eny more
about collisions with other programs.


Terje Marthinussen
terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:32:03 GMT
Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.

In article <1992Nov17.091937.21765@nwnexus.WA.COM> pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne) writes:
>In article <Bxu8oB.BuB@starnine.com> mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov7.221949.6127@cs.mcgill.ca> jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH) writes:
>>>In article <1992Nov6.000536.22326@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>>>>In article <36732@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>>>>In article <1992Nov4.202447.10362@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>(No he didn't)
>
>FLAME ON!!!
>
>Ok, I want everyone who is contributing to this thread to examine the
>above attributions, come to their senses, and...

...take a bow.


>Seriously though, I am just dying to express my views on some of the
>things that the poor delusioned extreme conservative was belching

(hah!  scared him off!)

>forth, but (with the exception of this runon sentence) I won't, 'cause
>this is the wrong place for it!!! Niether should you!
>AAAaarrrggh!
>
>FLAME OFF
>
>-Pete 

Sheesh, Pete!  Chill.

c.s.a.a is a real party now that the POLITICO personality modules
for BLAZEMONGER came out!

But I've gotta tell ya, I have to keep the BIAS control all the way
to the right, cause when it even gets a little past mid-position
going leftward, BLAZEMONGER really starts to lose it's sense of h-u-m-o-r!
Starts threatening to erase the hard disk and everything!  Really
scary.
From: st1my@rosie.uh.edu (Stich, Christian E.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: CSA Rocket Launcher for A2630 (50MHz), performance, compatibility?
Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:07 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rosie.uh.edu
Keywords: A2630, CSA, Accelerator, 50MHz, 68030
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    


Could anybody upload, email or send me an AIBB4.65 or AIBB5.0 load 
module for the CSA Rocket Launcher.  Also, what are your experiences
with this device such as problems with DMA-Harddisk controllers (some
of the A2630's are marginally working with some DMA devices; did yours
stop working after putting the Rocket Launcher on the 2630?)
Additionally, does your machine feel/run faster in normal operation (non
benchmark).

				Thanks
					Christian
From: peters@server.uwindsor.ca (Peter Steeves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A501 clock question.
Date: 16 Nov 1992 18:24:07 GMT
Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

In article <1e8ek2INNhvk@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> cs_d604@ceres (David Scutt) writes:
>rbc@engr.ucf.edu (Robotics Club) writes:
>: okay, Where is the FAQ for this group?
>: 
>: Seriously, I have a A500 +501, ram works fine, I even got it
>: to go one to mb.
>: 
>: SetClock returns:
>: Battery Backed up Clock not Found.
>: I tried SetClock reset, same thing.
>
>	Try leaving you Amiga on overnight, then try 'setclock opt reset'

   Do you have a C= 501 board or a maybe a Microbotics 501. I just got
a 500 with a M501 and my startup complains about the clock too. I figure
the M501 probably requires its own clock utility. 

   If anyone has a Microbotic M501 ram expander and has such a utility
would you please let me know.

   Thanks.                         PETER 
-- 
Peter Steeves
UofW
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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 and CDrom (aka IDE blows) (was Re: IDE : Possible
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 17:18:51 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
 @holli.UUCP>  <69348@cup.portal.com>
  <1992Nov13.074811.5573@desire.wright.edu>

>> Actually I'd have 5 drives, one in the 4000 and four still in my 2500.  No,
>> sorry, this may be what YOU want, but not what I NEED.  I would need at
>> least three of my current SCSI peripherals in the 4000, not just one or two
>> IDE drives.
>>
>        How did you get 5 drives in the 2500??.  Inquiring minds want to
>        know!!

Bomac tower.

>-Fred

-Joel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dbrouw71@ursa.calvin.edu (Daryl Brouwer)
Subject: Amiga 1084 and 1084s  What's the diff?
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:52:34 GMT

I am a new Amiga user looking to purchase a monitor.  In the process
of looking for one, I have come upon a problem.  I am looking at
buying a 1084 monitor, but I see there is a 1084s version.  What is
the difference if any?  If anyone could help an Amiga newbie, I would
really appreciate it.  Thanks!

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: 2090 w/ 2.0?
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 20:36:03 GMT

Quoth kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK)):
]> 
]> I know this is a FAQ, but I can't seem to find the list anywhere.  Does the
]> 2090 work under 2.0?  I plan to trade for one soon and I'd like to know if
]> it's going to work on my 2000 under 2.0.

]> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

Sure, it will.  The 2090a will even autoboot under 2.0.  However, no new
prep software is available for the 2090 series, so you'll have to make do
with the 1.2/3 Prep software.

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From: PDC@basil.eng.monash.edu.au (Paul Cuthbertson)
Subject: Connecting MFM/RLL Harddisk to Amiga 500 ?
Organization: Electrical & Computer Systems Eng. Dept., Monash Uni.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:54:28 GMT


I am considering (if possible) connecting an old MFM/RLL harddisk drive to a
recently aquired Amiga 500...

Firstly is it possble?

If yes, what sort of controller card(s) etc are required. i.e. is an IBM
compatible AT card OK? or does it need to be XT? etc.. and what other 
interface is required?

I have *heard* (only) of a Palomax  MAX-125.
What is it capable of? If this card is the go, where can I get hold of one
in Melbourne? (Aussie-land, that is)  Also price?.


Thanks heaps, Paul.

Paul Cuthbertson                   
Dept. Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering,
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.
pdc@basil.eng.monash.edu.au