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From: nazareth@malibu.janet.ucla.edu (Sean F. Nazareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ATI ULTRA PRO and DESKJET 500
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:40:00 GMT

I have an ATI ULTRA PRO and a dot matrix printer.  I noticed that the printing
on one line about 1" from start of printing was consistently messed up.  That
is , half of the line (horizontally) would not print.  This was seen in all
applications that I tried.(MS WORD 2.0a, EXCEL).  I am not sure if this problem
is what those of you with DJ500's saw.  I found that one could still print
properly if I used ATM fonts rather that TrueType.  Could those of you out there
with the DJ problem try this and tell me if it works for you too.  I am 
contemplating purchasing a DJ and want to know if it will work.

I noticed that my printing problem only occurred when using the Flex Desk Driver, and disappeared when using standard VGA or the Crystal Fonts driver.

I will summarize replies.

Thanks in advance

Sean
nazareth@malibu.janet.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Dan.Bjorklund@launchpad.unc.edu (Dan Bjorklund)
Subject: Help with Joysticks
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:40:39 GMT


 HEELLPP!!! :)  Does anyone know how the joystick on a PC works?  I don't
need the pinouts I just need to know how it works.  What signals does it
send to the port.

Dan.Bjorklund@bbs.oit.unc.edu



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From: lari@saadi.berkeley.edu (Francesco Lari)
Subject: Re: Architechture questions, ISA, LB, EISA, cards
Keywords: ISA bus EISA local architechture
Reply-To: lari@robotics.berkeley.edu 	
Organization: UC Berkeley Signal Processing VLSI Group
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:39:36 GMT


In article <BxIAn9.76n@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov4.225444.10280@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
|> >In <Bx5HFu.4DF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
(Iskandar Taib) writes:
|> >
|> 
|> >Macs, however, don't do parity checks on the memory and hence use
|> >32-bit SIMMs.  This sounds more like Macintosh memory than 'EISA
|> >SIMMs' to me.  Caveat Emptor.
|> 
|> Most Macs (Plus, SE, SE30, II, IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIsi) use 8 bit SIMMs,
|> 4 at a time. Don't know about Quadras.
|> 
|> 
|> I think the Wide SIMMs are more often seen in the workstation world.

I got a Quadra. 8bit SIMMs, and I never heard of any Mac using Wide SIMMs. 

		       FRANCESCO 

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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Colour scanner (which should I buy)?
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:28:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.064938.15184@seq.uncwil.edu> noecker@seq.uncwil.edu (Scott Noecker) writes:
>>The HP ScanJett IIc is good.  Comes with Omnipage for OCR (at least ours 
>>did).  No problems yet.
>
>I use the IIc at work, but find Omnipage somewhat unsatisfactory,
>is there a better OCR someone can recommend or what is the latest
>version number of Omnipage?

Omnipage Pro is better than Omnipage. We had a setup with 2 HP 
Scanjets, one on a Mac IIci and one on a Zenith 486DX25. The Ze-
nith had Omnipage Pro and the Mac Omnipage. The main difference 
was that the Pro was trainable. In sheer speed the Zenith was 
about 4x faster than the Mac. The Mac users preferred using the 
Zenith and using Netware (with Mac NLM) to move files.





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From: btptan@solomon.technet.sg (Benjamin T.P. Tan)
Subject: Date not being Updated.
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:31:40 GMT



I run a BBS and have my machine turned on 24hrs. OF late, I've encountered
a problem with my system clock. It appears that the DATE is not being
updated at midnight each day, though the TIME is perfectly in sync with my 
external (ie stand-alone) clock(s). 

Any ideas what might be wrong? Could it be a software problem (but then I
haven't added/changed any programs lately)? 

The system runs FrontDoor v2.01 and MAXIMUS v2.01WB.

Thanks for any help.

bentan
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From: mabbot@stel.csir.co.za (Mike Abbot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need to use DAT as data drive, Help !
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:34:47 GMT
Organization: CSIR
NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.64.23.16
Keywords: DAT, SCSI

A bit of help required !

I would like to use a (WANG)DAT as a data storage device (as opposed to a 
backup device) in a PC based system.

Ideally I would like to be able to read and write to the DAT drive in a 
manner analogous to a hard drive (albeit in a sequential fashion).  The only 
software I have seen so far is stuff to perform an archiving/backup function.

I have the device driver for the SCSI controller in the PC (Adaptec), and I 
know that I can probably do what I need to do with the relevant SCSI 
calls ...  BUT I'm trying to avoid that !

1.  Has someone done this type of thing before ?

2.  Is there any sort of standard for the (high-level) formatting of data on 
a DAT drive ?

3.  Is there a device driver available that allows a DAT to function as a 
DOS disk drive ?

Any help or comments will be greatly appreciated.

Mike


Mike Abbott     mabbot@fred.csir.co.za (EMAIL not very reliable at present)
Cape Town       PH :  +27 2231 75101
RSA             FAX : +27 2231 75142
From: frederic@cs.unc.edu (Robin Fredericksen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ATI Ultra Pro, G200 DX266V resolution/NI?
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:52:45 GMT
Followup-To: poster

I recently received a Gatway 2000 DX2-66MHz system with their version of
the ATI Ultra Pro video cards.  It was my understanding that the ATI UP
would run 1280x1024 @ 60Hz NI, but after trying to get it to go interlaced
(running the setup program, running the test programs) I finally called ATI.
They said that the version of the card that I have does not go that hi, and
that I would have to upgrade to a new (or additional? that was not clear)
RAMDAC to get that performance.  I called Gateway tech support and they
said that they did not have the upgrade available, and that I would have
to pay for it.

Has anyone else with the ATI UP, from Gateway or otherwise, run it at
1280x1024 at 60Hz NI?  Is Gateway selling a stripped down card?  Was
I expecting too much to be getting the product with specs that have been 
advertised elsewhere?  Has anyone bought the Nanao 550i upgrade and run
it at 1280x1024 @ 60Hz?  Does any one have any info on this at all? :-)

After buying a Mag MX17F so that I can do the above mentioned resolution,
I am bit dissapointed right now. (I still have a fiew calls to make to
my sales rep, but I am not optimistic.)


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From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Rapidcad
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 14:25:16 GMT

Christian Ricci (newsman@stein.u.washington.edu) wrote:
: Hello all!  I am looking at an ad for what appears to be an Intel product
: called the Rapidcad Engineering Co-processor.  The ad says you remove the
: 386DX with the included tool and replace it with some other chip and you
: replace the math copro. if you have one with a 'companion' chip.  What the
: hell is this thing.  It's selling for $249.95 in the latest JDR catalogue.
: How fast does it t
: 
: sorry about that..
: 
: How fast does it run?  Is the 'companion' chip a math coprocessor?  It says
: that is is designed to speed up technical applications(up to 70%).
: 
: How come I haven't heard about this if it is the marvel it is described to
: be?

i think that the RapidCAD is basically a 386 and a 387 packaged
together (integrated onto same die?) and because of this can (a) drop
in to replace a 386 and (b) ?provide 387 functionality at higher
performance than off chip 387? (not entirely sure about b).

of course its other main feature is that it makes money for intel by
selling to people who want an fp solution tailored for the CAD market
place rather than a generic fp co-processor solution or other
marketspeak verbiage.



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From: nfh@leland.Stanford.EDU (Nancy Fisher Hansen)
Subject: Re: Cyrix "486" cpu really compatible ?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 05:46:24 GMT

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 :
>1) The CYRIX "486" is really 100% compatible whit INTEL 486 ?

No. It is pin compatible with the 386. It does not give you the upgrade
path that an Intel 486 does. 

>2) Is it true that it hasn't the coprocessor inside of it ?

It has no coprocessor in it.

>3) Is it true taht it has 1kB internal Cache ?

I believe it only has a 1 kb internal cache.

>4) Is it far better than a 386 40 mhz ?

Not sure about this one. I believe it is, though.

>5) What is there inside the cpu ?(block diagram available ?) Is it the same of a 486 sx ?

I don't have a block diagram. It is not the same as the 486SX, though.

>P.S. Sorry for my english but that's my best.

I wish my Italian were as good as your English!
Good luck!

				Kurt Hansen
                       (posting from my wife's account)


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From: olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson)
Subject: Re: Multiple modems ... 
Reply-To: olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
Organization: The Harvard Group, 01451-0667
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:58:12 GMT

In article <BxDAqs.Kq1@ns1.nodak.edu> jorgense@plains.NoDak.edu (Lee A. Jorgensen) writes:
>
>Ok ... I have a Wyse 50 terminal hooked up to my phone line, and a 286 with
>an internal modem hooked up to the same line.  Both modems are 2400 baud.
>I have them chained right now (my wyse is hooked to the wall and my pc is hooked
>to the other jack on the wyse's modem and a normal phone hooked up to the
>2nd jack of the pc's modem). 
>
>like:
>
>W
>a <----------WYSE <----------PC <----------Phone
>l            MODEM         MODEM
>l
>
>(poor ascii art:)
>
>Anyway, is there anyway I can use the Wyse to 'look' at the data if I
>connect with the PC to the mainframe, or can I use the PC's modem to 'look'
>at the data If I use my Wyse?
>

Change wiring to:

W                 <------Wyse Modem
a <----Y-Adaptor-<
l                 <------PC Modem <----Phone
l

So that Wyse and PC are in parallel.  Original wiring disconnects
chained device when modem connects.

Commands for receive-only mode are:

AT C0 S10=255 m   Where m=O for originate or A for answer

C0 turns off the transmit carrier so the monitoring modem just listens.


>(in other words ... can I use two modems on the same line, on different
>machines, at the same time?)
>
>-Lee.

That's a different question, to which the answer is also yes, but put
them in parallel and don't turn off the transmit carrier.

Regards,

      --Kirt




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From: bi927@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Yi Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 8250 or 16450 UART?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 03:23:17 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I recently ran "msd" from windows3.1. I was suprized to see that my IDE
2HD/2FD I/O card on;ly  has 8250UART.  Then I ran an old version of the
landmark tester utility. It tells me that I have 16450 UART. So what
exactly that I/O use? I would really be pissed off if my 486DX-33 uses
8250UART.

Oh, "msd" does recognize my internal modem's 16550AF UART, as com3.

Thanks.

YJ
From: crs@siesoft.co.uk (Chris Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Info wanted on future domain 845
Date: 13 Nov 92 11:09:10 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I recently bought a CD-ROM (Toshiba KA3301BA) and it came with a 
future domain 845 scsi host adaptor card.  What I want to know is this.
Can this card be used to drive other (more than 1) scsi peripherals
such as scsi disk as well as my CD or is it a limited implementation?

Any other info on the card would be appreciated.


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From: nijhuis@isg.llnl.gov (Jan A. Nijhuis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Problem with disk changes, drive B
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:28:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lawrence Laboratory  Livermore, CA

Help!

A FAQ, no doubt, but could someone please answer this and post a solution?
I'm working on a '486 that doesn't recognize disk changes on drive B:
Drive A is 1.2M, B is 1.44M, C is a SCSI 105M job.  While trying to load
Windows we come across disk change problems.  Disk one loads fine, insert
disk two and it looks at the disk, decides it's not the disk it wants and
asks for disk two again.  Not a problem so far.  We copy all the Windows
disks into their own subdirectories and do a Custom Install.  Tell windows
to look in the individual directories at disk change time.  Cool, it works!

When it gets to be time for Windows to load itself (1/3 way thru the
installation procedure) we get a "Cannot load USER.EXE file." and the
installation procedure self aborts.

Still, loading from drive B should be possible.  What causes the problem 
with the drive when it does not recognize a disk change and what is the
solution.

Next: Any guesses why installing from individual directories gives us
the error message and self abort.  the Status line looks like it has
copies USER.EXE over just fine.

Please don't tell me the disks are bad.  They are not.  I can read them
just fine in my machine, Norton finds nothing wrong with them and even
CHKDSK has no problem with them.  It is a HARDWARE problem.


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From: cro@socrates.ed.asu.edu (C. R. Oldham)
Subject: Creating large numbers of diskettes.
Keywords: large numbers diskettes
Organization: North Central Association, Commission on Schools
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:40:55 GMT

Greetings,

Due to a change in administrative structure within our organization,
we may be faced with the need to create a large number of
diskettes--around 7000 to be exact.  I know there are disk duplication
machines out there, but our problem is that each diskette has some
unique information on it.  Specifically, unique datafiles totaling
between 10k and 60k need to be written to each diskette.

As of now, we are creating diskettes just for PCs.  It is highly
possible that we might need to do it for Macintoshes sometime in the
future.

I know there are other organizations out there that must have the same
needs--is there a machine of some sort that would automate this
process? 

I'd appreciate any suggestions and/or pointers to appropriate
manufacturers.  War stories, too.

Thanks!

Charles R. (C. R.) Oldham | North Central Association, Commission on Schools
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From: paulm@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (paul.j.maioriello)
Subject: How can I mix ESDI and ST506 Drives
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 05:45:38 GMT


I recently inherited a PCCLONE with an ADAPTEC ACB-2322B
controller.  The machine has a nice 340 meg hard drive that
I am realy happy with.  The only problem is that my old machine
had two st506 drives, one of which I would like to use in
the new machine.  The only documentation I have on the ADAPTEC is 
a little card that tells how to format drives.  Does anyone
know if this is an ESDI only controller, or can it also handle
st506 drives.  If it can't, are there any other ways to use
an ESDI and a ST506 drive in the same machine?


Please respond via email to: pjm@mt747.att.com.
I will post a summary if responses warrant.

Thanks in Advance,

Paul Maioriello
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:29494 comp.benchmarks:1642 comp.sys.intel:2214
From: tmh@keks.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.benchmarks,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra PRO 24-bit?
Date: 11 Nov 92 03:16:37 GMT
	<1992Nov3.060642.21412@cc.umontreal.ca>
	<smithbm.720819736@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
	<1992Nov05.121925.29865@rz.uni-jena.de>
	<smithbm.721061471@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> <8eyl1Bi00
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin
In-reply-to: smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu's message of 8 Nov 92 23:14:32 GMT

In article <smithbm.721264472@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Azrak) writes:
   David Eugene Dwiggins <dd2x@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> writes:

   >Nope, you won't be able to write a nifty program to get the card into
   >unusual modes, because ATI is not going to tell you how.
[...]
   >DON'T BUY ATI PRODUCTS IF YOU WANT TO KNOW PROGRAMMING INFORMATION.
   >Gene
   Huh????

   You mean the manual you get with the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro doesn't
   tell you how to switch into 640x480x16.7M mode???

   My manual from the ATI VGAWonder 256k (yes, old) told me what HEX
   value to use to switch into any mode the card supported, and even
   told me how the bit planes were organized.

This isn't a VGA card. There is no such thing as BIOS for it. 8514 is
i/o mapped registers only, and the specification of those was never
made public by IBM (but reengineered by C&T, WD and ATI).

In these days of desktop publishing it shouldn't be too difficult to
draw up a nice looking company letterhead (might actually be some
fun). It's a bit more friendly than a non disclosure agreement. I
can understand that companies don't wont to publish information that
would result in less talented experimenters returning burnd cards or
monitors and besides the 8514 chipset manual that I have is already
more than a 100 pages.
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Format 3.5 DD floppy as a HD, is it reliable?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:07:47 GMT

In article <82956@ut-emx.uucp> slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged) writes:

>PS/2's, for example, stopped checking for the existence of the second hole 
>many years ago and just automatically format everything to 1.44 megs.  You
>have to type in the parameters to format to 720K for single hole disks if you
>want clones to be able to read them.


Ah....

One strike against PS/2s. You won't believe the number of disk
recoveries we've had to do around here with students formatting 
DD disks as HD, and these disks trashing themselves over time. 
This has to a large part stopped since the public clusters now 
have a menu system that lets one select the density one wants 
to format a given diskette, and enough word-of-mouth information
has spread...













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From: wtrkei01@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Keith Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: New Tseng chipset?
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:53:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: uctvax.1992Nov5.135356.203220
Organization: University of Cape Town

Hi there

I have heard a rumour that Tseng has discontinued its ET4000 chipset and is
producing a new one...  (ET5000?)

Can anyone confirm this?

replies via E-mail, please.

Cheers!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin)
Subject: Orchid video board & NT?
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ APL
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 18:02:41 GMT


I decided to upgrade my lowly Trident 8900 in
anticipation of Windows NT. I saw an ad for a
new Orchid Farenheight ?? board that does 23M
winmarks.

Does anyone have any experience with this board
under windows at 1024x768x16 (or 256)?

Is this currently supported under NT October Beta?

Have there been any RECENT magazine reviews of this
card or other high speed cards?

Thanks...
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Johns Hopkins Univ APL
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: speedy@engr.latech.edu (Alfred "Speedy" Mercer)
Subject: Re: [I]diots [B]uilt [M]e
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:52:06 GMT

In article <1024@engcon.marshall.ltv.com> bell_sw@brutus.vought.com writes:

>>>>>>>Idiots Built Me..
>>>>>>>Intercourse Beats Masturbation..
>>>>>>I'd Buy a Macintosh
>>>>>It *Beats* a Mac.
>>>>Idiots Become Managers
>>>I Believe in Money
>>>Ive Been Moved
>>>Itty Bitty Minds
>>I Been Misled
>International Big Mother
>It's Better Manually
>Itty Bitty Machine
>I wanna Be a Macintosh
Machine Always Crashes. If Not, The Operating Systems Hangs = MACINTOSH
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