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From: ck060@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric L. Hinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: AC/AT and Enhanced Keyboard Set-up (Please Help!)
Date: 30 Dec 1992 00:28:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ck060@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric L. Hinson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


I am getting ready to purchace an IBM PC/AT.  The ones we have won't work
with the enhanced keyboard, only the crummy old ones with the screwey
looking return keys on them.  How can I make a "real" IBM enhanced keyboard
work with these ATs?  Is it in the Set-up somewhere?
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:16157 comp.os.os2.misc:40429
From: eblinder@panix.com (Eva Blinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 driver for SpeedStar 24X ? or Tseng ET4000?
Date: 27 Dec 92 17:49:13 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

In <1992Dec25.201141.6601@samba.oit.unc.edu> Mike.Chang@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Chang) writes:

>Does any one know if the OS/2 2.0 driver for SpeedStar 24X is out yet? I
>think Diamond promised to release it in October. But I can't find it 
>anywhere.

The latest word, from Diamond's tech support line as well as from their
tech support area on CompuServe, is that these drivers are not yet out and
there's no ETA.

eblinder@panix.com
From: jlars@pro-storm.cts.com (John Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Opinions Please
Date: 3 Jan 93 05:25:30 GMT
Organization: ProLine [Pro-Storm] -- Dallas, TX -- 214/644-5113


    I have been given 2 DEC Rainbow computer systems Complete with VT 200
terms and what My uncle has described as about 300 pounds of Software and
Docs.  He referes to these computers as bullet proof.  it has both the z80
and the 8088 (or is it the 8080A) microprocessors.  So it runs both thje
Rainbow MSdos and CPM 86.  I have no doubt that I will enjoy using these
systems but I am looking for opinions on the systems,  Their quirks,
problems, ETC...  
    Anybody Willing to tender an Opinion I just ask on favor.  PLEASE
E-Mail Me here at prostorm.  Cause I really don't have the time to wade
throught the message base every day.  Thankyou all in advance.

John Larson 

ProLine:  jlars@pro-storm
Internet: jlars@pro-storm.cts.com
UUCP:     crash!pro-storm!jlars
Bitnet:   jlars%pro-storm.cts.com@nosc.mil
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:16069 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:33922
From: eduardo@power.amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com (Eduardo Malamut)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer 2.0
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:54:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rockwell International

A friend has recently purchased a copy of Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer
version 2.0.  The program refuses to run on his computer.  When you start it up,
it asks for some password from the manual;  once you enter the password, it will
flash a view from the cockpit for a fraction of a second, and then return you to
the DOS prompt.  It looks like the program puts a 'Divide Overflow' message on
the screen just before it dies (it clears the screen as it crashes, so it's hard 
to tell for sure).

The hardware is a Packard Bell 486 DX, with 4MB RAM, and a SVGA monitor.  Here are
some things I've done already:

 - Create a "clean" bootable diskette (no autoexec or config.sys), and boot from
   it and try to run the program.  Did not work.

 - Installed the program on another Packard Bell at a shop. Did not work.

 - Installed the program on my own Packard Bell 286.  Worked fine!!

So, can anyone help with this?  Obviously the disks are ok, since we've been able
to make things work on at least one other computer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, e-mail if possible.

Thanks

Ed Malamut
Rockwell International
eduardo@amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth)
Subject: Re: How to use Entended memory effectively
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:41:44 GMT


	So, does anyone know when Windows NT will be out?


-- 
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The Ohio State University       | A starry highway traced on the map of the sky
Columbus State                  | Like lovers and heroes,
CIS/History/Classics/ect..Major | Lonely as the eagle's cry..." -Peart
From: ab245@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Sam Latonia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: RODINE 3095 Jumper settings needed
Date: 23 Dec 1992 14:11:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


I have a RODINE MDL.3095 IDE 80MB hd that I need to know the jumper
settings so that I can make this drive a slave. Does any one know
the settings for this dirve???
From: hwstock@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (stockman harlan w)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Lap-Link style PC-to-PC disk copies via ethernet?
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:03:00 GMT
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA

In article <5049@equinox.unr.edu> malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) writes:
>Does anyone know of a way to do Lap-Link style wholesale disk copies
>via ethernet, vs. via a (feh) 9600/19200 serial line?

Laplink over a serial line is 150,000 bps, not 9600/19200. The transfer
is interrupt-driven, and skips the normal polling interface. Parallel
port I/O over Laplink is ca. 500,000 bps.

So there.
From: st1vn@elroy.uh.edu (Fontenot, Kenneth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Smartdrv vs. Hyperdisk
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:08:00 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


  If anyone is interested there is an article in the Computer Shopper,
December 1992 issue on pgs. 878-879 that describes both Smartdrv and
Hyperdisk.

         Kenneth   st1vn@jetson.uh.edu
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From: cn0gr8af@hydra.unm.edu (Student Class Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 1280x1024 in 256 colors under OS/2 (Any Suggestions)
Date: 30 Dec 92 03:25:06 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

I would like to use OS/2 in 1280x1024x256colors , and would welcome any and
all suggestions on how to do this.  I have come up with two options so far:

1.  Buy a New Monitor and card.  ATI Ultra Pro with 2 MB should do, with a 17"
monitor to go along with it.

or:  I have a nice FIXED FREQUENCY 19" 64KHz Trinitron Monitor.  Digital sells
a card made by Appian based on the TIGA 34020 chipset that will do all VGA modes
and Several SVGA modes at this FIXED FREQUENCY.  Also, Appian is planning
to release a Rendition IV card that may have this capability built in.  These
cards are about $1700 US at present.

2.  Buy the $1700 TIGA card, and hope for drivers for OS/2 from digital or Appian.
Appian.

I would like to limit the total cost of the system upgrade to $1700 US.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Any and all input would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Rusty

rfj112@rsphy1.anu.edu.au      or       cn0gr8af@hydra.unm.edu
                                         ^this is a "zero"
                                         |
From: davel@comtch.spk.wa.us (Dave Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Resetting Floppy drives under Windows
Date: 1 Jan 93 00:41:36 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

I have suddenly been visited with a previously unknown problem. Floppy 
drives no longer reset themselves after a preliminary access. I am 
certain that this is a changeline problem, but I do not know where to 
look in the config. Any ideas?

--
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IEAx for lack of a better name... (509) 624-0744
From: mbesonen@pearl.tufts.edu (Mark R. Besonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Canon BJ-->HP LJIII/PCL5 emulator
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:23:47 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA


         	Has anyone had an opportunity to use a program called
         LaserTwin 5.0 (or perhaps an earlier version).  Apparently it
         lets your Canon bubblejet printer emulate a HP LJ III/PCL5
         laser printer.  If the thing works well, it would seem to be
         a temptingly cheap alternative to spending more money on a
         real laser.  You can buy the program and a new Canon BJ200,
         for example, for about $420 from Business Computer Systems
         (Computer Shopper, Jan 1993, pg. 967).

         	Thanks in advance!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jim@cs.curtin.edu.au (Jim McGrady)
Subject: WANTED: good Comm prog
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:01:05 GMT

Hi All

I'm looking for a PD/shareware comm package that gives

- zmodem transfers
- vt100 emulation
- good phonebook
- highly configurable
- minimal number of files (ie; not twenty dozen little hacks tied together)

The name of such a package and an appropriate ftp site would be appreciated

Regards

Jim
From: avinash@sam.contex.com (Avinash Chopde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Pizza Hut erases diskettes
Summary: Keeping floppies close to the monitor.
Date: 30 Dec 92 22:57:54 GMT
Organization: Xyvision Color Systems

This brings up another question---I have seen many persons (me too), 
keep floppies close to the monitor.
And the monitor is turned on and off once a day.
I have done this for more than two years now, but my floppies are still
readable, so it seems that the magnetic field on a floppy is quite
strong and does not get destroyed easily.

Yet, have heard horror stories of floppies near huge loudspeakers,
or over a TV, etc, are these stories really true, or are they urban
legends?
-- 
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avinash@contex.com     (...!uunet!contex!avinash)
From: joee@cabezon.uucp (Joe Eckardt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 read errors
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:42:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: cabezon.1992Dec22.224217.28472
Organization: Logic Modelling Corporation of Beaverton Oregon

In article <shopsis.51@panther.adelphi.edu> shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis) writes:

	[stuff deleted]
>
>After I installed stacker 3 I re-stacked my disks to take
>advantage of its improved compression (I got an extra 3 or 4 Mb
>on each disk). I then started getting "read errors" from some
>programs.  Often the errors weren't fatal; I'd get a message
>about a read error, and then the program would manage to read
>its code or data and continue to run.
>
>One program, the gif viewer VPIC version 5.1, wouldn't load under
>windows, reporting a read-write error.  It would still load from
>DOS, or under windows running in standard mode.
>
>Another program (the Miracle piano teacher) gave non-fatal read
>errors under windows or DOS, but the errors ceased when I copied
>the program from one hard disk to the other (D to C), and then
>recopied it to the original drive.  I tried this same procedure
>on VPIC and it did not help; it still gives me read errors
>under windows and not at the DOS prompt.
>
>WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS gives transient read errors when running 
>as a DOS task under Win 3.1, but not when running from the C prompt.
>WordPerfect 5.1 for windows gave me the error once when I was
>resizing a graphic; it then locked up.
>
>I've run chkdsk, stacker's check utility, and done a surface
>scan of the hard disks and no errors are reported.
>
	[stuff deleted]
>
>Charles Shopsis, Dept. Chemistry, Adelphi University
>shopsis@auvax1.adelphi.edu       or        shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu


This sounds exactly like the problem I've been having with Stacker V2.1!
I just ordered a copy of V3.0 in the hopes that it would fix the problem.
In my case I had the feeling it was an interaction between Stacker, SpeedStor
V6.1.7 (disk partitioning driver), and QEMM V6.01.

The worse part is I can't even back up my disk to tape successfully without
getting these "Read Errors".  At this point, if I could just get the system
backed up I'd trash Stacker.  My system USED to be stable as a rock -- I
haven't been able to get anything constructive done in three months now.

		Joe Eckardt Logic Modeling Corporation 
		(formally Logic Automation Incorporated)

            Please use one of these return addresses instead of 
            the one on the return address line:

		joee@lmc.com   		,or
		...!uunet!lmc.com!joee
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth)
Subject: Free Software Workshop, Moscow, 4/19-23
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:25:46 GMT

	     CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

   There is a conference on Free Software taking place in Moscow,
Russia, April 19-23, 1993.

   The conference is hosted by SUUG, the Society of Unix User Groups
(formerly the Soviet Unix Users Group), the Russian Center for Systems
Programming, the Russian Chapter of the Free Software Foundation, and
the International Center for Scientific and Technical Information.

   Participant specialists are coming from North America, Europe and
Japan.  We have just learned that Richard Stallman, founder of the
Free Software Foundation, and recipient of the ACM Admiral Grace
Hopper Award and MacArthur Fellowship, will attend.

   The main topics of the Workshop include:
   - the current state of the GNU project and other FSF projects;
   - "free" software means information freedom and sharing;
   - free software portability in Open Systems environments;
   - user experiences with free software;
   - free software in education and training;
   - legal aspects of free software;
   - relevance of free software to NIS modernization and democracy;
   - how NIS scientists can contribute to free software.

   Concurrent with the conference, there will be a small exhibition
demonstrating free software in a networked heterogeneous environment.

   The conference encourages submissions of original designs, papers
and ideas, and it welcomes the participation of computer and software
companies.

   In the past, a conference of this kind has drawn 120-140 attendees
from within the former Soviet Union, including 20-30 computer
specialists, 60-80 enthusiasts, 20-30 persons from the commercial
sector and members of the public.  This year the turnout is expected
to be larger, because there is great interest in free software among
all kinds of programmers and users.

   The precise location of the conference will be announced in the
coming months.

   For further information, you may contact any of the following
members of the program committee:

Name                        Telephone            E-mail
--------------------------  -----------------    ----------------------
Moscow
  Sergei Kuznetsov (Chair)  +7 (095) 272-4425    kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su
  Peter Brusilovski         +7 (095) 198-7055    plb@plb.icsti.su
  Dmitry Volodin            +7 (095) 231-2129    dvv@hq.demos.su
Boston
  Geoffrey S. Knauth        +1 (617) 891-5555    gsk@marble.com

   Please send proposals for participation, paper abstracts and texts
via e-mail to the Chair <kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su>.

-- 
Geoffrey S. Knauth, Marble Associates, Inc.                Member BCS-NeXT, LPF
gsk@marble.com, (617) 891-5555                             Standard Disclaimers
From: mikey@gadgets.UUCP (mike fields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: $100 hanheld scanners.. Any good?
Date: 2 Jan 93 07:00:32 GMT
Organization: Mikey's Gadget Works, Kirkland, WA.

In <Jim_Johnson.0bsa@abcd.Houghton.MI.US> Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson) writes:
>In a message dated Wed 16 Dec 92  7:00, V120q4jf@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (vax
>wrote:

> V> Does anyone have one of those cheap, $100 black and white scanners?
> V> They scan
> V> while you hold them in your hand....... It seems that Mustek makes one
> V> that 
> V> would be good to buy...

>I have the inexpensive Mustek scanner and use it with the bundled ScanKit
>Grey, PC Paintbrush+ (but don't scan direct to PB+), and Perceive OCR. It
>works great if you keep in mind the design limitations. 

Does anybody have any experience with the Envisions 256 grayscale
scanner?? The Halo software that comes with it was rated good in 
PC mag (I think), but I have not been able to find any good info
about the scanner itself - it is supposed to compete with the 
Logitek scanman 256.  The whole package - scanner, image s.w. and 
OCR sw sells for $199 in computer shopper.  Any info would be 
appreciated.

mikey

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12022 NE 138th Pl          ---> uunet!pilchuck!fnx!gadgets!mikey
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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:10:16 GMT
Subject: Re: On-the-fly file compression (Stacker-like)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

  Not quite what you asked for, but DR DOS 6.0 has a bundled version of
SuperSTOR. In The Netherlands you can get DR DOS 6.0 for some Dfl 60,-,
about 33 US dollars. Looking at all the stuff you get for this money, it
makes it almost as cheap as shareware/PD.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sasbge@unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston)
Subject: Re: Searching for HP LaserJet 4 Drivers
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:10:07 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.

cces@ecf.toronto.edu (Congress of Can Eng Students) writes:

>In article> mtheil@quink.in-berlin.de (Matthias Theil) writes:
>>
>>a friend of mine bought a HP LaserJet 4. But he is missing drivers to
>>use it under Windows or generally with some applications. However, the
>>drivers-disk which came with the machine is not very completely.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Matthias Theil

>We just bought three of them, and we called HP when we found that there 
>were no Windows drivers included.  They said that there were no drivers
>written for it yet (pretty stupid to put out a printer with no drivers...)
>but the HPIII drivers can be used.  The only problem with the HPIII drivers
>is that you can't use the 600dpi or many other features that made us buy the
>HPIV.  The disks do include a WP driver though.

Duh...  I just replied to Matthias privately and then I read this note.

I received a postcard in my box with my LaserJet 4.  I filled in all
the correct boxes and I received yesterday the Windows 3.0/3.1 drivers
along with drivers for Lotus 1-2-3 and Word Perfect 5.1

Windows part number-  HPB-13025/3
Lotus/WPerfect #-     HPB-15015/3

These are 3.5" diskettes so that's probably what the "/3" is for.
That's the size I asked for on the postcard.  Finally, I got a whole box
of free technical manuals by returning another card supplied with the
printer.  Check with your dealer or HP.  Maybe it's a domestic thing...

By the way, I am having a small problem with my printer.  It feeds two
or three pages stuck together about every other page.  Are you having
problems like this?  Any ideas?  I am going to go out tomorrow and
buy some different paper.  One of the manuals I got was a paper
specification document....


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Pizza Hut erases diskettes
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:15:29 GMT

In <1992Dec30.000429.24047@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:

>I'd often wondered about the magnetic safety of mailing diskettes.
>Wondered how many diskettes that arrived unreadable were really
>due to exposure to magnetic fields during transit.

>Today in my mailbox was a post card from Pizza Hut. Taped to it was
>a magnetic sticker, suitable for posting on your refrigerator door,
>with the phone number of my local store.

>Good thing no software publisher was mass-mailing update diskettes
>this week, eh?

>:-)

 I recall Speaker Builder magazine published a story once about somebody who
ordered a new pair of woofer's and a Lotus 123 upgrade on the same day both
to be shipped Fedex.

 The Fedex driver was very nice and packed the Lotus upgrade between the two
woofer boxes so it'd be protected from the rain that day.

 :-)

-- 
sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
Project Vincent                    ICSS Resource Unit
SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS       2142 Agronomy Hall
                                   Iowa State University
From: cholette@saguenay.iro.umontreal.ca (Martin Cholette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Magazines for PC: Which is better?
Date: 25 Dec 92 22:30:20 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal, Canada

In article <Bzu1AL.3rG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.125234.11746@cs.unca.edu> fauerbac@ivy.cs.unca.edu (John Fauerbach) writes:
>>c188-cr@po.berkeley.edu (Chua Hak Lien) writes:
>
>>: Which PC magazine is best for someone mainly interested in programming?
>>: What exactly is the difference b/w PC Computing, PC Sources, PC Magazine
>>: and PC World?
>>: 
>>: Any info would be appreciated, as I can't subscribe to them all.. =)
>>: 
>>: Chua
>>: +==+
>>: 
>>I like PC Magazine, but sometime I also read BYTE.  BYTE goes into programming
>>alot deeper than PC Magazine.  It all depends on your interests and knowledge
>>of computers.  I think PC Computing, PC Sources, and PC World are only good
>>for beginners and people that are not deeply involed in computers because
>>these are easyer to understand to the normally person and does not go into as
>>much depth as PC Magazine and BYTE.  Just my $.02 worth.
>
>I'd tend to agree. My subscriptions at this point in time 
>are to PC Sources and PC Computing. The former because it 
>specializes in hardware acquisition and installation matters
>and the latter because it emphasizes end-user software. PC
>Magazine is a little top-heavy in the product reviews (which 
>is why I use my friend's extensive collection when trying to 
>find specific info on brands of hardware). Since I don't do
>much low-level programming Byte doesn't hold too much interest 
>for me. I do look in there once in a while for items of inte-
>rest, eg. details on the latest processor from Intel.
>
>
>
>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>Bitnet:   NTAIB@IUBACS                 !


If programming is your main interest and you do some programming in 'C' then
you will want to subscribe to Dr. Dobbs Journal. This journal is filled every
month with programming tips, tricks, fancy algorithms, and in-depth articles.
The only problem with Dr. Dobbs Journal is that it goes into much detail, this
might be a problem to the novice, if you have a good background, then you need
not worry. What you should do is go to a magazine stand and buy the next issue
of Dr. Dobbs Journal, and see for yourself if you like it!

Merry X-MAS
Martin Cholette
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc