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From: Ken_J_Siegel@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Telephone Directories
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 20:00:05 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <shane.09uh@peeker.uucp>

I received my BSR-6800 drive and PhoneDisk USA CD's from DAK yesterday.  The
order came in about a week from when they got it (pretty good), plus
the manuals and instructions (set up, ect) were very easy to understand.  As 
the PhoneDisk USA (from Digital Directory Assistance, Inc.) it is pretty
good.  On the (supposidly) slow drive I got it takes only about 5-10
seconds for each search (amazing.)  The country is broken down into 2 CD's
for residential numbers (east and west of the Mississippi), each says
it has 36 million names, well some names are in more than once, plus  
married people have 2 listings, so there might be roughly 5% less names,
still pretty good anyway.  The disks so far seems to be exactly what
I needed. 
Shane, you asked about a Canadian version...well I dont know, but on the 
jewel box it says..."For additional information on PhoneDisc brand 
CD-ROM products, please call 617-639-2900."
                         Ken J Siegel
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Y.X. Liu )
Subject: Re: Parallel Port CD-ROM
Originator: yxl5388@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:49:38 GMT

In article <!-xn_+a@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
>schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
>
>>International Computer Products, the people who made the "BSE Drive"
>>and "FlashDrive" parallel port hard disks, are now Dayton Valley
>>Electronics. I just received a flyer from them, and in their
>>new product list:
>
>>======================================
>
>>PARALLEL CD/ROM:
>
>
>This sounds like an interesting product but I'd like to point out 
>another option.  I have one of the Trantor parallel port SCSI
>host adaptors.  I run a CD-ROM drive and a Syquest removable hard drive
>from this unit.  Since SCSI gives one 7 target addresses to work with,
>there is little reason why 7 devices could not be hung from the parallel
>port.  I have also used a cartridge tape drive with this unit.  A tad
>more money but well worth it, IMHO.

Yeah I have the same setup as well. Works great for me. The only problem
I have is that the Trantor adapter won't work with my CD-ROM drive.
Trantor also has a newer model which works faster with bi-directional
parallel ports. And if you have a newer Toshiba laptop that connects to
the Deskstation IV Toshiba is releasing a SCSI adapter that connects to
the 150 pin port.

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp ("Y.Tsuji")
Subject: Re: Desktop Library CD-ROM (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: zoo.cfi.waseda.ac.jp
Organization: Centre for Informatics, WASEDA University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 02:05:52 GMT


Maddening --> Madding
a typical example of editorial laziness.
sorry,
Tsuji
-- 
				
				ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp
From: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen) 
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Hitachi1503s
Date: 15 Sep 92 07:42:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
Reply-To: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen) 

To: Doug Calman <CALMAN@FSUAVM.bitnet>
Organization: FUNET-NGW

DC>At Florida State, we are running Biological Abstracts on CD-ROM from Silver
DC>Platter.  I have loaded the latest MSCDEX and DOS 5.0 and SPIRS 3.1 on the
DC>workstation, which is an IBM PS/2 Model 80-071 (microchannel architecture or
DC>MCA bus).  I assume what is missing is an updated driver for the Hitachi
DC>drive, the CDR-1503S. We have 2 of these drives daisy-chained.
DC>
DC>This is an older drive, made in 1987/88.  Currently I am using an Hitachi
DC>driver called HITA_MCA.SYS which works with another file called MDIHSDVR.
DC>A line in the config.sys reads:
DC>     device=hita_mca.sys /U:0,1 /P:300 /D:MDIHSDVR /N:2
                                             ^^^^^^^^
The name MDIHSDVR has to match the name in MSCDEX. It is not another file.

The new driver is called HITACHIB.SYS. This is the version for MCA machines;
ISA machines use HITACHIA.SYS. 

If you can't find it anywhere, try calling 1-800-HITACHI, and they can
probably sell it to you.

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 . KingQWK 1.05 # 141 . 
                                                                                           
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: LAURENCE@ACC.FAU.EDU (Helen Laurence)
Subject: ProPhone CDROM
Reply-To: Helen Laurence <LAURENCE@ACC.FAU.EDU>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:50:00 GMT

We received some promotional literature about "ProPhone," a set of
three CD-ROMs from ProCD, Inc.  This is a directory of 7.5 million
business listings and an unknown number of residential listings.  The
"Special Introductory Price" is $179.  This seems too good to be true.

The company claims to have shipped over 3,000 copies of ProPhone to
dealers and end-users.  This being the case, does any listmember have
any experience with ProPhone and if so, would you be willing to share
your evaluation with us?

We would be using this product in a state university library.

Please respond directly to me as I am not a listmember.

Thanks in advance.

Helen Laurence, Reference Dept.
Florida Atlantic University, P.O. Box 3092, Boca Raton, FL 33431
(407)367-3780
Internet: LAURENCE@ACC.FAU.EDU      Bitnet: LAURENCE@FAUVAX
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: sgccsns@citec.oz.au (Shane Noel Smith 2245702)
Subject: SONY DRIVERS NEEDED!!
Organization: CITEC
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:28:14 GMT

Hi there.

I have acquired a sony cdrom and unfortuneately did not get the relevant
dos drivers that go with it.  Is there an ftp site for this stuff.

Any assistance
would be appreciated.


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|  Shayne Smith          |  Department of Family Services,  |
|                        |  Aboriginal and Islander Affairs |
|  sgccsns@citec.oz.au   |  Queensland AUSTRALIA            |
|------------------------|-----------------------------------
|  GPO Box 806           | These are my personal views only |
|  Brisbane              | My employer doesn't pay me       |
|  Qld, AUSTRALIA 4001   | enough to think fo them          |
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From: everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Everett Kaser)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:02:54 GMT
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Telephone Directories
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom

 Ken_J_Siegel@cup.portal.com writes...
>I have ordered and am waiting to receive from DAK
>the 3 disks from PhoneDisc USA (2 are residential phone numbers, one is
>commercial numbers) and their $200 BSR drive.  But I am interested in 
>hearing if there are better phone listings (residential) available.

A shareware author (Eric Isaacson, A86, ZipKey) was just commenting over on
Compuserve a couple of days ago that he had ordered just this set of disks from
DAK and is VERY pleased with it.  He said the data is probably a year old, but
still, it's great.  It contains names, addresses, and phone numbers of just
about everyone in the US that HAS a phone.  He said the search/access software
could be better, but that you can search on names, addresses, or phone numbers.

** Everett Kaser                   Hewlett-Packard Company
** ...hplabs!hp-pcd!everett        work: (503) 750-3569   Corvallis, Oregon
** everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com        "Today is a good day for change."
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: jhs@ipsa.reuter.com (Henri Schueler)
Subject: hitachi 3600
Organization: H&h Software, Toronto, Ontario
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:27:15 GMT

I have an Hitachi 3600 CD reader in a 386 pc.
It was purchased in 1990.
The bus card is called CD-IF35-A, which is a non-scsi interface.
(The sister drive is the 3650, which is SCSI).

I need some help with this interface card.  The only specs I have
for it are a single sheet showing how to set a jumper for the
I/O address.  

I'm fairly sure that the card doesn't use an IRQ, but what I need
help on is DMA.  What DMA (DMAs?) does the card use?  The spec for
the drive shows that the cable carries signals for DRQ/DACK, but
doesn't give any hint to how this is mapped to the PC bus.

The DOS device driver I'm using is dated Aug-89 (HITACHIA.A); the version is
2.10 (I'm using it with MSCDEX 2.21).  Hitachi have a newer
device driver, which I've been considering buying.

My reason for delving into DMA is that I'm having trouble getting
this CD to work with my sound card (PAS-16). I get stuttering
when I play .wav files (from the CD -- no problems from disk).

Finally, can anyone give me the names/phones of dealers they
know that deal with Hitachi CD equipment?

/jhs
-- 
J. Henri Schueler, H&h Software, Toronto	+1 416 698 9075
From: bbaker@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Baker)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: EMS Shareware/Database CD-ROM
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:38:05 GMT
Reply-To: bbaker@cbmvax.UUCP (Bob Baker)
Distribution: na
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Keywords: Shareware CDROM

Thought this may be of interest:

=======================================================================
I'm posting this for an associate without Usenet access, please direct
any questions or comments to the address/phone# shown below......
=======================================================================

EMS Professional Shareware has begun shipping a CD-ROM containing all of
its critically acclaimed libraries of Public Domain and Shareware software
for PC professionals. The CD-ROM contains 10,000 ZIPed files, including
2238 Xbase utilities, 722 C/C++ products, 560 TurboPascal, 670 AutoCAD,
480 Netware, 340 Assembler, 291 Visual Basic, 800 Windows, 211 Paradox,
300 123/Spreadsheet, 400 TrueType fonts, 330 DOS utilities, 400 Ventura
Publisher, 51 ObjectVision, 120 QuickBasic/PDS, 350 WordPerfect, 100
MultiMedia, and many other libraries.

Also included are 150 games, 150 HomePC applications, and 120 Small
Business programs set up so that users who don't know what a DOS prompt is
(including most 10 year olds) can install to their hard disk, read/print
instruction files, run, and delete products without technical assistance.

The PC Products Database, also included on the CD-ROM, allows users to
locate any PC company (producers of hardware, software, or publications)
or the products they produce in seconds. The database lists 13,500 firms
and 35,000 products, with address, telephone, toll free numbers, fax
numbers, and BBS support numbers.

The CD-ROM with all products above is $295. Subsets of the CD-ROM start at
$125. All libraries are available individually on diskette priced from $10
to $149. EMS offers a 30 day guarantee on all its products. EMS may be
reached at Voice:(301)924-3594, Fax:(301)963-2708, or in writing to: 4505
Buckhurst Ct., Olney MD 20832-1830.
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Parallel Port CD-ROM
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:29:59 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
>PARALLEL CD/ROM:
>The price listed is $399 and it can be ordered from them at 702-246-7474

>Anyone have any experience/thoughts/perspective on this?
>Sounds like a dynamite way to add multimedia to a laptop without
>investing in a SCSI adaptor.
*----
The Trantor parallel SCSI adapter supports CD-ROM, is available for
$ 100, and would allow you to use any standard SCSI CD-ROM which
could then be shared with other machines.  Drivers are also
available for other SCSI devices (but at those speeds, don't count
on much).  This product doesn't sound like anything special, and it's
not a particular bargain.
--
	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: mssrh@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Scott R. Hutinger)
Subject: Cheap CD recording system?
Keywords: cd recording system
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:10:03 GMT

Has anyone used the Optical Media International CD Recording system?
This allows one to create CD's (write once) for mastering, replication,
or better yet, checking out how well Quicktime Moov's have been opt.  

I did see a small blurb in either MacLeak, or New Media on the different
CD recording systems, but not much was really said.

Any information about any of the > $9000.00 systems would help me out
very much!

The main use would be for Mac HFS CD's.  I really don't care about other
formats, but feel that the more formats the machine supports, the
better.  I think most of them do support audio, yellow book, xa, cd-i
etc...

Thanks for any information.

Scott Hutinger         mssrh@uxa.bgu.edu


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From: warren@tis.llnl.gov (Fred Warren)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,misc.forsale.computers,ba.market.computers,ba.forsale
Subject: Action, Lotus CDROMs & Windows forsale
Summary: CDROMs and Windows for sale
Keywords: Action Lotus CDROM Windows forsale
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:55:07 GMT
Followup-To: alt.cd-rom
Organization: LLNL


I have purchased a multimedia kit which contained some very nice software that
I will not be able to use.  I thought that there might be some folks on the
net that would be interested in it.  The packages that came with the kit are
complete, unused, and have their registration cards.  They are, however, in
"OEM packaging" which means the manuals are pretty skimpy.  With this in mind,
I will set my asking price at least 20% below street price.  The items
available are:

1. Action for Windows CD-ROM by MacroMedia.  This is a very nice multimedia
business presentation package.  There is currently available an upgrade to
version 2.0 from MacroMedia for $79 that is good through 9/27/92.  With this
in mind, I will offer the package at $250, which is $79 less than the street
price at ComputAbility.

2. Lotus 1-2-3 with Multimedia Smart Help on CD-ROM. This package is so new that
I could not find a street price.  So, I will base the asking price on
the street price for the least expensive floppy release which was $339. Taking
20% off, we are left with an asking price of $271.  This should be a pretty good
deal on Lotus 1-2-3 even ignoring the new Smart Help feature.

3. Windows 3.1 on 3.5 floppys.  The street price on this is $89 and less 20%
we are talking $71 asking price.

I will consider all offers on these items.  I can be reached by phone at work
(510) 422-0971 or at home (510) 930-6820.  You can also email me on the
net: warren3@llnl.gov or fred_warren@engmail.llnl.gov.  I will be out of town
between 9/14 and 9/18, but you can email or leave messages either at work or 
home.  I'll be calling home now and again.  I have noted that a good way to 
do business on the net is via COD so if you are not in the SF Bay area, I will 
send the items to you COD. 
 
Fred E. Warren
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: rlw@atlanta.dg.com (Richard Wright)
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Multimedia Upgrade: Kudos and
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 15:05:22 GMT
Organization: Data General Corp. Performance Services, Atlanta, GA

<description of annoying noise problem omitted>
<description of "Me too!" omitted>

	Have y'all tried changing the DMA channel? I have the same
	hardware running under DOS 5.0/Win 3.1/QEMM 5.x and have 
	had no problems like this. As I mentioned in an earlier
	post, I had to change the DMA due to a scanner card conflict.
	Give it a shot. What could it hurt?
  
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From: bwong@beach.csulb.edu (Bradley Wong)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Exporting Street Atlas
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:56:52 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

>Regarding the recent posting about exporting Street Atlas to other formats, 
>it is only possible to put Street Atlas maps out to the Clipboard.  But, 
>DeLorme recently came out with a new CD that is a superset of Street Atlas 
>called MAP Expert.  This one is a TRUE Windows application, including the 
>menu bar, ability to export to BMP(Bitmapped) or WMF(Windows MetaFile) 
>formats, as well as the ability to annotate the maps!  And it is the same 
>price as Street Atlas, $495.
>
>If you would like more detailed information, call DeLorme at 207-865-1234.

  MapExpert is NOT the same price as Street Atlas. I think Street Atlas 
  is about $195 list (with street prices in the $70 to $110 range).

  Registered owners have/will have received an offer to upgrade to the
  MapExpert program for $295 (limit one and must provide a serial number).

  Among other things, the MapExpert provides a feature to print wall-sized
  maps in page-size sections.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: J.Beech@SCP.AC.UK (Julian Beech)
Subject: Phillips CDD 462
Reply-To: Julian Beech <J.Beech@SCP.AC.UK>
Organization: Sheffield Hallam University
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:02:26 GMT

    Has anyone had any experience with this or any other multi
session drives.  I am very close to purchasing one, but would like to
know if any are already in use, and what are your opinions on them.
(this will please a few PEOPLE) It will be used to run a photo CD
library and transport images to windows, with the supplied software
from KODAK.  Photo CD Access.  All for the price of 433.60 UK pounds.


                Julian (Joules) Beech

              Sheffield Hallam University
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From: dclunie@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (David Clunie)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,bit.listserv.cdromlan,alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.wanted
Subject: Multichanger CDROM software for Sun
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:38:48 GMT
Organization: Her Master's Voice
NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au


I am in need of software to driver a multi-changer CDROM off a sun
sparcstation.

I am aware of the package from Tracer with the Pioneer DRM600 which
seems like a good product, but the software alone costs over $500 !

I guess I should be used to "Sun" oriented things costing more than
other platforms, but that seems a lot !

Anyone know of any alternatives ? Anyone have any experience with this
or other products that they care to share ?

Thanks ... david

-- 
David Clunie (dclunie@itd.adelaide.edu.au)
From: laposkymatth@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: MSCDEX HELP PLEASE!!!
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:12:28 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA


In article <1227767297@trsvax>, pauls@trsvax.tandy.com writes:
> 
> Well, if you mean invoke it:
> 
> mscdex /{drive letter}:{drive handle}
> 
> where {drive letter} is the letter of the next available drive (usually D)
> 
> and {drive handle} is the "mounting name" you indicated in your
> drive-dependent driver (usually in config.sys).
> 
> The default {drive handle} is usually mscd001. Therefoe, the invocation
> would be:
> 
> mscdex /d:mscd001
> 
> assuming in config.sys you had something like:
> 
> device=cdrom.drv d:mscd001
> 
> note that the drive letter is not the drive letter mscdex will use, it will
> "assign" the logical drive to the next letter available. In other words, if
> you already have c,d,e in a hard drive, the cdrom then becomes f: EVEN
> THOUGH you 'told' mscdex to use d: (why this is, I have no idea, it just
> works).
> 
>
From: aflan@acpub.duke.edu (Alan M. Gallatin)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: SoundBlaster Multimedia Upgrade: Kudos and Complaint
Date: 7 Sep 92 20:44:59 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
Originator: alan@teer7.acpub.duke.edu

I recently picked up the Creative Labs upgrade kit (SoundBlaster Pro,
Matsushita CD-ROM, a few discs of goodies, etc.) and am VERY HAPPY
with my purchase.  (Also with my price... $549 from Insight Software,
$561.50 delivered to my door overnight!)  Anyway, I could go on and on
about the good stuff (as have other people) but you've heard it already.

HOWEVER, there is one ANNYOING problem which I haven't figured out yet.
Occasionally, and seemingly at random times, the SoundBlaster starts
spitting out very loud static or other random noise to the attached
speakers.  This sometimes happens even when the machine is idle and
seemingly doing nothing.  When it occurs, I can still use my computer
(although disconnecting the speakers makes usage more pleasent) and
even play CD's or synthesized sound through the same speakers (although
the sound is somewhat faint behind the massive static burst).  The
only way I've found to clear up the static is in some cases to exit
and restart Windows but more reliably to hit the reset button on
my machine.  I've discovered NO patterns as to when this ocurs,
except that it has only happened while in Win 3.1.

If it will aid anyone in helping me, the SoundBlaster is set up
at 240h/IRQ10/DMA1 - I'm using IRQ10 since I have a printer on 7 and
COM3 on 5.

While this problem has completely stumped me, I'm still hanging on to
my gut feeling that it is software related in Windows and this won't
stop me from recommending the product to anyone who asks.

Post replies or (preferred) e-mail to alan@acpub.duke.edu.

Thanks!!

-- 
Alan M. Gallatin <alan@acpub.duke.edu>
Duke University School of Law; Durham NC
From: 2719weberj@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-ROM article.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:37:04 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2719weberj@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

>	NEC CDR-73
>	    CDR-37
>
>The NEC CDR-83 is probably OK, too, but he said there were
>problems with the NEC CDR-74 and CDR-84 drives. He did not
>elaborate as to what the problems were. I found this very
>disappointing, since I had planned on getting a CDR-84. I may
>have to rethink.
>
>Larry Mittag

Just a clarification here, the CDR-83 was the same as the CDR-73 less
the outside case and powersuply...the drive itself was the same.  NOw
as far as the CDR-74 and CDR-84 go, I find it hard to belive(though not
completely) that NEC would make their "improved" drives, less compatable
with the standard.  If any one can add more to this, I would greatly like
to hear about it.

Thanks
JOE

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