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From: djlewis@ualr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the scoop behind "Reveal" components?
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:31:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

In article <1992Nov16.163227.24551@hemlock.cray.com>, rice@cray.com (Jonathan Rice) writes:
> 
> Computer stores around here are saturated with components packaged under the
> "Reveal" brand name.  The package design suggests that a corner of the label
> is being pulled back, and printed in the corner (as if it were being
> revealed, get it?) one sees notations such as "From the Colorado Mountain
> family of tape drives" or "From the Conner family of disk drives."
> Everything from tape to modems is represented.
> 
> What's the connection between Reveal and the original brands?  Are they
> simply OEM'ing the genuine stuff?  Cloning it?
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan C. Rice  |   rice@zizania.cray.com  |  ...uunet!cray!rice
Down here in President Elect country 
	BEST BUYS inc stores is selling computer accessories under the
REVEAL label. I feel the idea behind it is that you know from the markings
on the carton / box that you are getting a familiar product. Inside there
is the original product (which might be a second level OEM product).
For example I bought the REVEAL Multimedia Video Card. The box was marked
by STB in the corner. I called STB and they confirmed it was their product
yet they get it from CIRRUS and sell it as an STB product, rom labels manual
and all. My manual is STB. I love the card. And STB supports the warranty
as well as tech support. 
hope this helps,
Don Lewis
Systems Tech Support
UALR
Little Rock, AR.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tkuo@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Feng-Lan Kuo)
Subject: Samtron & Samsung's monitor.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:12:07 GMT


I am considering buying a SVGA color monitor capable of displaying 1024x768
in none-interlaced mode.  Due to my limited budget, I am considering

SAMSUNG 14" Color SyncMaster 3n,  and
SAMTRON 14" Color SC-428TX.

Any information regarding these two monitors or your recommended monitors will
be highly appreciated.

Thanks.
From: huny@cco.caltech.edu (Hunyue Yau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 and modem use
Date: 22 Nov 1992 03:37:48 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

You will get a few retries when you change tasks, but it will work.  
Hope this is helpful.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: venaas@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Stig Venaas)
Subject: jumper settings for Seagate ST-251 MFM drive
Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet - UNIT
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 23:07:01 GMT

I've got an ST-251, but I haven't got any documentation on it.
I would like to change the jumpers so that I can use it
as the second MFM disk, but I don't know how they should
be set.

If you've got any info please give it to me. If you've got
some info for other old seagate drives I would be interested
in that too. The settings might be similar.

Stig

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rice@cray.com (Jonathan Rice)
Subject: 3.5" drive fine at HD, won't format DD
Summary: DD read/write is ok, but not DD format
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:27:01 CST


I have a problem with my Sony MPF120-K0 3.5" diskette drive.  It reads,
writes, and formats 1.44MB (HD) diskettes without a hitch.  It will also read
*and write* 720KB (DD) diskettes with perfect ease.  However, it will not
*format* a 720KB diskette.

The media change sense mechanism works fine.  The density sense mechanism
works fine.  CMOS setup knows it's a 1.44 MB drive.  Using /n: and /t: on the
format command does no better than using /f:.

If I format a 720KB diskette on my other 'puter, and then write it on the
Sony, it's readable in every 3.5" drive I can lay my hands on.  Every program
save one thinks the world is rosy at 720KB -- FORMAT is the only exception.

Symptom: invalid media, track 0 bad.

I don't want to tell setup that it's a 720KB drive (because I use HD's 95% of
the time).  Similarly, I don't want to use drivparm or some such to claim
the drive is not HD capable.

I've found other people with the identical problem, but they've only shared
sympathy, not solutions.  Any help from netland?  Thanks in advance.

-- 
Jonathan C. Rice  |   rice@zizania.cray.com  |  ...uunet!cray!rice
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pott@ast.saic.com (David L. Pottinger (x5068))
Subject: graphice benchmarks
Reply-To: pott@ast.saic.com
Organization: SAIC
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:46:04 GMT


Does anyone know if the PC Mag winmark and video graphics benchmark software is available to the public?

Thanks


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Science Applications International Corporation | fax       619 546-6833
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San Diego, CA 92121
From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Cyrix "486" cpu really compatible ?
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:25:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov17.012544.9122
Reply-To: rseymour@reed.edu
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <1992Nov16.173224.3075@opus40.ix.de> hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)  
writes:
> 
> |> In article <BxLLJ0.EK2@dei.unipd.it> vento0@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (Andrea  
Susini) writes:
> |> >I'm looking for informations about the new CYRIX cpu 486 compatible.
> |> >I'm an Italian, and here in Italy is rather difficult to find info of 
> |> >this kind.My questions are :
> |> 
> |> >4) Is it far better than a 386 40 mhz ?
> |> 
> 
> No, the 486DLC-33's performance is about the same as the 386DX-40's.
> -- 
> 
> |Dipl.-Ing. Harald Milz                   |    EMail:		hm@ix.de |
> |iX - Multiuser Multitasking Magazin      |    FAX:    +49 511 547 47 33 |
> |D-3000 Hannover 61, Helstorfer Str. 7    |    Tel.:   +49 511 547 47 66 |

	The Cyrix chip is not a true 486. I mean this in the sense that it does  
not support all of the 486 features, not that it isn't made by Intel. An  
example of this is the fact that NeXTstep 486 will not support the Cyrix chip,  
since it uses instructions particular to the 486 (as opposed to just a 386  
instruction set, which the Cyrix chip mirrors along with most 486  
instructions).

--
Robert Seymour				rseymour@reed.edu
Departments of Physics and Philosophy
Artificial Life Project			Reed College
Reed Solar Energy Project (SolTrain)	Portland, OR
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: paolo@hpmcrf.mcm.hp.com.mcm.hp.com (Paolo Fontani)
Subject: Re: Gateway Flat screen 15" monitor
Organization: HP Cardiology Business Unit - McMinnville, OR
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:32:44 GMT

Khaled N. Ayyash (kna@po.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
> 
> 	I have a Gateway CrystalScan 14" 1024 NI monitor and I am thinking
> of upgrading to their 15" Flat Screen Monitor.  Is it worth the upgrade
> and does it provide edge to edge viewing?  I like to work with 800*600
> resolution and my current monitor shrinks the screen by half when I am
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> using the 800*600 resolution.  Does the flat screen monitor do the same
> thing?  If you have anything to say about Gateway, I'd like to hear it.
> I just bought my system and I am not sure if I made a wise choice!!!

It sounds like you have a defective monitor.  I say this because the
same thing happened to me.  My original monitor worked fine until I
heard a "pop" one day.  After that I could never get the usable
screen area to be as big as before.

After much talking with Gateway tech. support, they finally sent me
another monitor (it was still under warranty) and it performed
properly.  I had to use the fact that the two monitors performed
differently under the same conditions to convince tech. support that
my original monitor had broken.

In the vein of the quality problems that the 14" monitor is famous
for I would like to know if the 15" version is acceptably reliable.
Did Gateway learn from their 14" quality experience?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cliff@engin.umich.edu (clifford  kaminsky)
Subject: Windows video speed
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:16:13 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: usa

The video in Windows is a little slow for my taste.  This is because I'm
using a Trident 1Meg board.  So I want to speed it up.  The question is,
if I go out and buy a card which is advertised to be "2X faster than the
Tseng 4000" (whatever that is),  would it make much difference?  I'm using
a 386/33.  The serious speed loss that bothers me occurs when I'm running
a DOS application in a Window, and also the text scrolling in the Windows
applications, most notably Crosstalk.  Is the speed problem really the
video, or is it my processor?
-Cliff
From: tim@boxhill.com (Timothy Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway experience (positive to date!)
Date: 18 Nov 92 04:07:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: jake.TIM.92Nov17230715
Organization: Box Hill Systems Corporation, New York, NY

On Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:42:31 GMT, smith@ur-guh.com (Russ Smith) said:

> Though we'd still do "market research" prior to buying, I don't think we'd hesitate
> buying our next system(s) through them (said as a satisfied customer, not a shill)

Called customer service or technical support recently?  Keep a large book
handy...

Tim
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161 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10013               fax: 212-989-6817
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Distribution Mach32 drivers for GW2000 486-66V SUCK! (Was: Re: Gateway experience (positive to date!))
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:35:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov17.083546.4468
Organization: clearer than blir

In article <1992Nov16.141633.4847@walter.cray.com> dpp@cray.com writes:
>
>I just bought a Gateway 486-66V myself and have noticed two very fine
>horizontal lines running across my monitor (Mitsubishi Diamond Pro
>17).  They are there continuously, not intermittantly.  I had assumed
>the monitor was at fault, since the lines look identical using 640x480
>and 1024x768 modes.  Does anyone know if the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro
>drivers cause this problem, and if so, is the problem addressed in the
>new drivers?

My friend just got one of these GW2000 486-DX2/60's. What a hot
machine! Massively better video performance than even my GW2000
486-DX2/50.

Unfortunately, it didn't take me much time to figure out that the
distribution Mach32 drivers he was using SUCK, SUCK, SUCK!!!  So my
guess is that it's the driver's fault. For the time being, I set him
back to a standard VGA driver. Change to the vanilla VGA driver under
Windows Setup under Control Panel under Main and see what happens.
Performance might not be that great with this driver but it seemed
stable to me.

This brings up the question: WHAT'S THE POINT OF THESE MACH32 DRIVERS
ANYWAY?!? Didn't I read on this group (in just the last day or so)
that someone has uploaded working ones to somewhere. I'm gonna go
check cica but in the meantime, but please e-mail me if you've
written, or know of, reliable drivers that take advantage of this
card's capabilities.

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
               CompuServe:  70402,3020
               NIFTY-Serve: GBG01266
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Subject: Any chance we'll see a clock-doubled 386SX?
Summary: Maybe we have it in Cyrix's DRU chip
Keywords: 386SX, Cyrix, DRU
Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:46:43 GMT

From "InfoWorld Direct," November 1992 issue, p. 29:

"Neither Cyrix nor AMD competes in the upgradables market at the 486 level.
'There are far more 386s out there; that's what people need to upgrade, not
486s,' said Cyrix spokesman Mike Bruzzone.  Cyrix's DRU and DRU2 chips
address this market, allowing 386SXs to be upgraded to 486s."

Does anybody know about the new DRU & DRU2 chips?  Is the DRU for 386SXs
and the DRU2 for 386DXs?  What about pricing?  Availability?  Anything?

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPCC--University of Chicago

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: What's the scoop behind "Reveal" components?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:03:17 GMT

In <1992Nov16.163227.24551@hemlock.cray.com> rice@cray.com (Jonathan Rice) writes:


>Computer stores around here are saturated with components packaged under the
>"Reveal" brand name.  The package design suggests that a corner of the label
>is being pulled back, and printed in the corner (as if it were being
>revealed, get it?) one sees notations such as "From the Colorado Mountain
>family of tape drives" or "From the Conner family of disk drives."
>Everything from tape to modems is represented.

>What's the connection between Reveal and the original brands?  Are they
>simply OEM'ing the genuine stuff?  Cloning it?

 They're just OEM'ing it and packaging it for distribution and resale.

 I kind of think it's nice.  At least around here, a lot of these items have
prices comparable to mail order.

-- 
sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
This space left intentionally      ICSS Resource Facility
blank.                             Iowa State University
From: twb0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Thomas Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Funny Quantum 240AT HD noise?
Date: 17 Nov 92 00:19:26 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Arthur N. Olsen (arthuro@rosa.nbr.no) wrote:
: >>>I just bought the Quantum 240 AT hard disk drive. It has an on-board
: >>>256K cache, supposedly, and is supposed to be blinding fast. I haven't
: >>>really gotten a chance to test its speed, but I have noticed that
: >>>even when nothing's going on, it seems to make a chukka-chukka-chukka
: >>>sound about every ten seconds.
: 
: This is quite normal behavior for hardware cached drives, its just the
: onboard cache flushing every now and then.

The seek noises are thermal recalibration, not hardware cache sync.
From the technical information I have read, the cache is a read cache,
not a delayed-write cache.  It simply decreases seek/read time.

You will notice that the interval between the noises increases as the
drive is run for a longer period of time (very short intervals when
first turned on, very long intervals after an hour or more).  This
behavior is true with all of the Quantum LPS series (52AT, 89, 105,
etc.), although the exact noise may vary between models.
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From: yuan1@husc10.harvard.edu (Nina Yuan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MAG 15" monitors - are users really happy with them?
Date: 22 Nov 92 22:02:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.yuan1.722469772

kkt@philabs.philips.com (Kim-Kiat Tan) writes:
>	I wasn't that happy with the monitor I just bought 2 weeks ago. I don't
>think the image is sharp enough, I should have paid $50.00 more to get the 
>NEC. I bought it because most of the people seems to have good opion about it.
>But I won't spend my money on them again. I used it with Speedstar 24x, and the
>display is not exactly that stable (you can noticed it when the back ground is
>white), and for that kind of money I paid ?

The net.consensus on MAG 15" monitors (at least of a month or two ago) is
that their quality control may not be the most consistent.  Also, we should
probably be careful to differentiate different MAG models; the MAG I have,
the MX15F (with the LCD display that indicates video mode) seems to get
better reviews than the other MAG 15" model (the one that Gateway ships
with their systems).  Also, in general, 14" and 17" monitors seem to be
stable than 15" monitors, for some reason.

For what it's worth, I couldn't be more pleased with my MAG MX15F.  Though
I would have loved to have gotten a 17" monitor, I had neither the space
nor the money for that.  My MX15F's picture has been rock-steady and very
sharp, with a nice anti-glare flat screen.  I'm running it with a Trident
video card and OS/2, and even with white backgrounds the display is great.

If you don't mind a little bit of risk, I'd say go for the MX15F, but don't
hesitate to exchange it if the quality is sub-standard.  If you need to
be reasonably sure of getting a great monitor from the box, another brand
like NEC or Nanao might be better, but for me anyway, the slight gamble
was worth the few hundred dollars I saved.

Good luck,
-nhy
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From: GRS00010@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (Shannon R. Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Software for sale
Date: 20 Nov 1992 17:34:33 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University
Distribution: world
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I am posting this for a friend.  Send replies to:
      millerm@uwwvax.uww.edu

There are still GREAT packages left!  Ripe to be put under the Christmas tree.
All (most?) at incredible savings!


          ----- Video Systems/Games ------
GameBoy:  Castlevania; TMNT
Genesis:  System with 2 controllers, a turbo controller,Altered Beast,Sonic I,
          Valis III,Alex Kidd Castle,Sagaia,Stormlord,Phantasy Star III
Lynx:     Lynx system with carrying case, AC adaptor,MsPacman,Hard Drivin',
          WarBirds,Viking Child,Scrapyard Dog


          ------ PC Productivity -------- (all are DOS)
Quattro Pro 4.0.............$49; newest!; I upgraded to Lotus; $300 new!
Alpha 4 2.0 database........$39; seen in magazines for $99 as upgrade
Willbuilder.................$11; everyone needs one!
KeyPublisher................$ 8; desktop pubishing; clone of Publish It!
RightWriter 5.0.............$15; grammar checker; in stores at $50-60
Cartoon-a-Day...............$ 8; in current CompUSA catalog for $19
Disk Optimizer/Fast Cache...$13; better than Windows smart.drv
DrDOS 6.0-6.02 (3.5").......$23; THE operating system; in stores for $50-70

Now...terms.  If something looks too high, make me an offer.  I will charge
you actual shipping UPS in the U.S.; U.S. mail for foreign orders; I can't ship
non-export products (labelled on box) out of North America, sorry :(.  I will
need to get a check in U.S. dollars or money order.
-mail me if interested since I can't post here
 (a great netter is doing it for me!).
Regards, MM (millerm@uwwvax.uww.edu)

P.S.  If you want to trade something, I am still looking for Mantis,
Desqview/X, Rex Nebular (Cosmic), Vista Pro, QFG III, Links Mauna Kea.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: C580503@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Albert Foo)
Subject: ST1144A setup codes for AMI BIOS
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:39:07 GMT

I lost my ST1144A seagate manual, and when I tried to install a new
CD-ROM into my PC, the CMOS setup reset itself. Now, I can't boot from my
hard-disk.  Please help.


Mine is a ST1144A seagate harddisk (125 Mb) and the BIOS is AMI.
I need the following info in order to fix my hard-disk setup.

   1) Sectors/Track
   2) Cylinders
   3) R/W Heads
   4) Pcomp  (what this?? )
   5) Wcomp  (what this?? )
   6) Lcomp  (what this?? )
   7) Formatted Mbytes



If you are using ST1144A hard-disk, please help me by providing the information
above.  Also, if you have SEAGATE or AMI phone number, please email it to me.

Thank you very much.

Albert Foo
Email:c580503@mizzou1.missouri.edu
From: cej@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Interfacing HPIB plotter to centronics
Date: 19 Nov 92 13:34:39 CST
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation

In article <1992Nov16.181921.24183@fwi.uva.nl>, stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram) writes:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I have a HP plotter, model 9872C which I would like to connect to
> an IBM PC compatible.
>
> The problem is the interfacing.
> The HP has a connector for a HPIB aka GPIB aka IEEE-448 aka IEC-625 bus.
> This is a bus system, whereas my PC has a simple IO port, being
> the Centronics parallel port.

You _can_ buy GPIB cards for PCs, if you can afford the A$300-$900 (depending
on speed) to buy it. We have some National Instruments cards that work fine,
and we hook up our HP plotters and lots of other instruments without problems.

You can buy a GPIB to serial or parallel box (I can't remember which). This
is cheaper than GPIB cards, but is slower & only works with 1 instrument at
a time.

> Then, I hope, I should be able to use regular plotter drivers from
> standard PC software to drive my plotter.

We redirect program HPGL output to a file, and then use my program to
send the data over the GPIB bus. It has to be done this way because
no "commercial" program understands GPIB.

> Second, it may be that every now and then GPIB bus commands must be
> xmitted, so that a pre configuring the system before using DOS applications
> won't do.

HPGL stuff will occasionally have serial commands (I strip these out in my
program). They have them because HP plotters can have either GPIB OR serial
interfaces...!

> Third, it may be the case that the HP9872C does not use the common
> plotter language HP-GL, as I was hoping.

This model of HP plotter is very old, and only understands a subset of
HPGL. My prog sorta handles this model by conversion of commands & ignoring
some tricky commands...It likes the 7475A a lot better.

--
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CSS/CD/ERL                                    Phone: +61 8 259 6758
DSTO Salisbury, South Australia                 Fax: +61 8 259 6328

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are purely personal and do NOT represent
            the official view of DSTO.

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 file in the shame file? Shame, sludge, sludge, shame, ...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: iisakkil@lk-hp-21.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila)
Subject: Re: S3 VGA coprocessors: What is the difference between 911/924/928 ?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:17:23 GMT

pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>S3 video accelerator chips ? I've seen models 911, 924 and 928.

Has anyone ever wondered if someone in the S3 design team is a Porsche
freak :-)

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