HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bazelmans@pcsnode.uucp (Rudy Bazelmans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HP 550 & 500C
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 20:59:55 -0500
Organization: Progressive Computer Solutions



>Anyone got the 550 yet that can give a view on the speed, paper handling 
>and quality ? Love an answer,

The paper handling is improved and now has a special slot for envelope feeding.

The print speed is identical to the previous printers except that now it can use
the black cartridge for black text instead of using the slower method of using the color 
cartridge to create black.

There are a bunch of other things that are great about this printer - such as it has
an 80+K buffer, more fonts and a hinged output hopper cover.  I love mine.

BTW, If someone wants one of these printer - new and in a box (sealed), I will sell it
for $705 plus shipping.  Sorry - now negotiating.

-- 

Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:30326 comp.multimedia:3436 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard:3972 rec.music.synth:18658
From: stu@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Stu Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.multimedia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,rec.music.synth
Subject: Any Board with Digital Audio and a Synthesizer?
Date: 19 Nov 1992 09:06:25 -0500
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: stu.warren.mentorg.com

I am looking for a sound board which I can use with games that
have digitized audio (Sound Blaster) and MIDI music (MT32).

My desired feature list is:

* 16 Bit digital Audio

* Sound Blaster compatablility in hardware

* MIDI Synthesizer conforming to General MIDI Specifications
  with MT32 patches

* MIDI Port for adding more MIDI instruments


Does it exist? How close can I get?
-- 
Stuart Brown
Mentor Graphics Corporation
I.C. Group, Warren NJ
stu@warren.mentorg.com or uunet!sdl!stu
From: jin@cs.arizona.edu (Yu Jin Thio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Trying to squeeze out max from CP3044
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:04:12 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

I've got a Conner CP3044. How do I format it (low or hi) to get the maximum
performance out of this drive? Right now I'm using drive type 17 on 
AMI Bios. Is there a way to do a custom configuration to make it work
better?

Thanks.
Yu Jin.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO))
Subject: Re: Modplay 2.19b homemade DAC
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:59:54 GMT

eduard@htsa.aha.nl (Eduard Beijnes) writes:

#On the moment I am making an amplifier (with batteries ?)
#for a (walkman) headphone and will post it... 
#(If you want it )

Yes, please uuencode the amplifier and post it here :-)
Seriously: a scheme of a simple device that would allow those who don't
have a stereo set with some input possibilities (like me) will be highly
appreciated (I guess).

Marcel.
-- 
 X	   Marcel Wijkstra   AIO   (wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl)
|X|	     Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science	
 X	       University of Amsterdam   The Netherlands
======Life stinks. Fortunately, I've got a cold.========
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young)
Subject: Reviving the Dinosaur
Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:54:54 GMT

I have an ancient XT clone lying around (I know I know) and have
suddenly found myself with the need to do some occasional development
for MSDOS systems (for the HP95 palmtop) This machine has recently
returned from the friends I lent it to when I purchased my lovely Mac
IIci system. What I'd like to do is get it up to the point where I can
expect reasonable compile times for short programs (we are talking a
palmtop here) After being spoiled on the Mac, I have no interest in
windows, VGA or any half baked GUI equipment. I'd like to save my
hercules board and monitor but the rest is liable to go.

If I remember my DOS days correctly I can't just swap the motherboard
out for a 286/386 board. I need to replace the power supply as well as
the hard/floppy controller. At that point it almost seems worth it to
get a "bare bones system" of new case, power supply, single floppy and
motherboard. I could see my way clear to ditching the Seagate ST251
although it still runs well. If I swapped out parts, could I still use
this drive? Would I even want to? Could I put in a 3.5" disk drive to
facilitate transfer <-> Mac? 

Any recommendations would be appreciated, names of companies or
products especially. If someone has a reasonably speedy basic system
that would fit my needs and would like to sell it - let me know.

WHAT I HAVE				WHAT I NEED
8088 8Mhz				80286 around 16Mhz or better
640k RAM				640K
20Meg HD				at least 20 mg
Par Port				Need a serial port as well
2400 bps int modem			everything else should transfer
Hercules Graphics Card & Monitor
SI (4.5) ratings
CI: 1.7
DI: 1.4

Should I just scrounge a computer shopper and flip through ads? I
still would need to know whether I needed a new hard/floppy controller
and/or power supply though.


Jonathan Young
Williams College
Jonathan.A.Young@williams.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: Gateway/Micronics motherboards
Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:42:04 GMT


The VL-bus limits you to three devices -- fewer if your bus loads are
high.  The "2 IDE controllers" on the motherboard is probably a single
IDE interface which allows two drives. Since it's on the motherboard
its bus loading (impedence and reflection) is fixed (and likely
small).  Deleting it may not allow an extra VL-bus slot.

BTW, actually having two seperate IDE interfaces would be a good idea,
but it's not done because most people run single-tasking MS-DOS which
couldn't make use of it.

				Don Becker (becker@super.org)
-- 
Donald Becker				       becker@super.org
Supercomputing Research Center
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 21114		   301-805-7482
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: patw@cserver.plexus.com (Pat Wilson)
Subject: Local-Bus VGA
Organization: Plexus Corp. -- Neenah Wisconsin
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:01:32 GMT


I am looking for information on VGA chips which can connect 
to the "Local Bus".   I have heard the terms PCI and VESA used in 
regard to this, but I don't have any information specifically on them.  
What I need to know is:

1)  What is a "Local-Bus" connection.  It sounds to me like the VGA
    controller exists on the microprocessors address/data bus?

2)  Is there an available VGA controller which does this?  I know that
    on PC's now, the VGA controller sits on the (E)ISA bus.

3)  If there are VGA controller's available, who has them?

4)  Are there implications for the BIOS accessing the VGA because
    it is now located on a different bus?

Thank you for any information you can provide.  Please e-mail me directly
at patw@cserver.plexus.com. 

				Patrick A. Wilson
From: jbjones@crash.cts.com (John Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: I don't get high transfer rates-BOCA 14.4-why?
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:31:21 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA

I have a BOCA 14.4 modem which I'm happy with, but I'm afraid I don't get the
file transfer performance I should get.  I don't think my io board has a 16550
UART (I didn't find any chips with those numbers on them) but the store I 
bought the modem from said with a 486 (my machine) that wouldn't matter. Is
this true? Or not?  All this leaves me wondering if they guy was ignorant or
if somehow I should be configuring registers a certain way.
Any help is appreciated.

john
jbjones@crash.cts.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: eduard@htsa.aha.nl (Eduard Beijnes)
Subject: using lptx for hdisk/floppies
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:44:33 GMT
Organization: Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam, Polytechnic Institute

Has someone tried to floppydrives/harddisks connected on the
lpt1, lpt2, lpt3 or the lpt4 port ? (or com1,com2,com3,com4)

Alse has someone information about the flatcable connected the 
fdrives/hdrives (pin information/ground/data/writeprotectection  etc)
From: gaspar@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Unknown Harddisc
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:40:02 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

In article <1992Nov16.101059.42554@urz.unibas.ch>, gaspar@urz.unibas.ch writes:
> 
[text deleted]
T
hanks to everyone who helped, I apreciate it very much!

laci
-- 

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*             Laci Gaspar, University Basel, Switzerland                      *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: "p24t" upgrades
Keywords: upgrade, P5, P24t, Zeos
Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:31:29 GMT


I don't understand the appeal of the "upgradeable to the P24t/'586"
motherboards given these points.

	o An ISA motherboard, sans cache and CPU, costs < $100.  The
	  motherboard cost is dominated by cache memory and CPU cost.
	o The "586" won't run at full speed on the existing motherboards.
	o If the retail price of the 486DX is any indication, it will
	  cost about same to purchase the processor upgrade as it
	  will to purchase a processor/motherboard set.

-- 
Donald Becker				       becker@super.org
Supercomputing Research Center
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 21114		   301-805-7482
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dggrabow@IASTATE.EDU (David G Grabowska)
Subject: Mail Order Companies
Reply-To: dggrabow@IASTATE.EDU (David G Grabowska)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:46:11 GMT

Hi,

I have decided to junk my old 8088 and am planning on buying a 486-33.  I have
been looking over several companies and have narrowed the field down to 5.  My
problem is deciding which company to buy from.  I don't want to get a computer
from some mail order Neanderthal and end up with more hassles than I need.  I
have done that before with stereo equipment and it took almost a year to get the
problems resolved.  

The computer companies that I am interested in are:
	Compu.Sys Information Network
	Centrix Computer
	Comtrade
	Standard Computer
	EPS Technologies

I would appreciate any comments on these companies, positive or negative.  If
you feel that I have neglected a computer company that is worth buying from, I
am also interested in your comments.  Replies by either e-mail or on this
newsgroup are fine.

(This seems to be a common request.  Perhaps we need a new newsgroup: 
comp.sys.ibm.pc.mail.order.companies)

Thanks

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com (Scott Linn)
Subject: Re: Distribution Mach32 drivers for GW2000 486-66V SUCK! (Was: Re: Gateway experience (positive to date!))
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:16:32 GMT

mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) writes:
: Well, the Build 46 Beta drivers aren't exactly perfect.  I could print
: now, just that some lines aren't fully printing.  I thought it might
: be the driver acting up again and switched back to SVGA and everything
: works fine again.  I'll try the Crystal Fonts and see how that looks.
: I thought you couldn't use Crystal Fonts with the ATI Ultra Pro?  At
: least that was what a tech told me on the phone.

I use Crystal Fonts with my 486DX266V and they work just fine.  Also, the
printer works fine with the CF's.

I also tried the Build 46 drivers, and that did not fix my printing problems
that I have been having with the DeskJet500 printer.

Scott Linn
scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: el27166@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (This Space for Rent)
Subject: *HELP!* Microsoft Mouse
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:16:32 GMT

I'm building a pointing device which is Microsoft Mouse compatible
through the IBM PC's RS-232 serial port.

I need to know how the mouse communicates its information to the PC.
Specifically, I'd like to know the timing, handshakes, packet organization,
and everything required to build a Microsoft Mouse compatible device.

If anyone has this information, or can refer me to a book or article
which contains this information, please send me email at:

el27166@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

E-Mail is preferred since I don't read this newsgroup.  If this
is not the right newsgroup, or if there is a more appropriate one, please
let me know also.

Thanks,
Eu-Ming Lee
-- 
Eu-Ming Lee (aka CyberGeek)                      el27166@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Guys with long sigs are just trying to compensate for something...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: hblim@iti.gov.sg (Hock-Beng Lim)
Subject: Bus transfer speeds
Organization: Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, Singapore.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:09:14 GMT

Hi !

I would like to know the peak and sustained data transfer bandwidth of
the ISA, EISA, and MicroChannel buses. Please send me email if you know
these numbers. Thanks in advance !

HB
-- 
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Hock-Beng Lim                                   | hblim@csrd.uiuc.edu
Center for Supercomputing R&D, UIUC. (on leave) | hblim@iti.gov.sg 
Information Technology Institute, Singapore.    | tel : (65)772-7205,772-7273
Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services
Date: Sunday, 22 Nov 1992 17:02:12 EST
From: Bill Laird <COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: opinions on DEC

A friend of mine is looking into Digital Equipment's line of PC's. Does
anyone have an feedback on DEC in regard to the quality of their
equipment, and their responsiveness to the customer?

Any info is greatly appreciated.

Bill Laird                       -------------------------------------
University of Central Florida    |" 640 K is all the memory you will |
cop80196@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu       |  ever need"... Bill Gates         |
Writing from sunny Orlando FL    |___________________________________|
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: more gateway stories
Date: 21 Nov 92 22:33:07 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Seth Adam Eliot <se08+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Call Tech service...wait ~ 30 min
>wait=15 min
>wait = 10 min
>wait =10min
>wait = 20 min
>recording: you have reachine gateway technical service, please hold....
>Me: hang up

>the moral of the story:
>WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T BUY A GATEWAY!!!!!!!!
*----
Not that this is an excuse for poor support, but isn't this why
the local computer stores are screaming?  If you buy mail order,
then you probably will NOT find special expertise for things that
are not typical CONSUMER products (like networking cards, video
digitizers, etc.).  I recommend mail order products (and Gateway
isn't at the top of my list) only to people who are technically
knowledgable, or have a technically qualified support person available.
To me, it looks like you've just discovered the actual cost of
buying by mail - you get the merchandise that was promised
(hopefully) and little else.

Token ring boards, ESPECIALLY IBM products, are difficult enough
to support even when you use them every day!  IBM is less than
helpful about the technical details of the products they sell, and
their guarantees usually extend only to the use of those products
in actual IBM computers.
--
	Mike Berger
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
From: dov@risky.Convergent.COM (Dov Bornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: #9GXe
Date: 19 Nov 92 23:34:33 GMT
Reply-To: dov@Convergent.COM (Dov Bornstein)
Organization: Unisys Network Computing Group (CT), San Jose, CA

In article <BxyHr9.CHM@news.chalmers.se> d9magnus@dtek.chalmers.se (Magnus Jingryd) writes:
>In article <102294@bu.edu> edwong@bu.edu (Edward Wong) writes:
>>I have read this ad from pc mag, that this video card from Number Nine can
>>boost the winmark to 40.5 Million under ISA bus.  Someone seen the actually
>>thing working?
>>
>>
>>--
>>8)
>>  _               _     | user's name:  Edward Wong
>> |_ |\ \   / /\  |_) |\ | ARPA:     edwong@acs.bu.edu	
>> |_ |/  \^/ /==\ | \ |/ | UUCP:     acs.bu.edu!edwong	
>
>I'm curious about this card as well. 
>Does anyone know if it is (will be) availiable for the VL-bus?
>
>
>--
>                                               
>                    V{nskap {r den b{sta
>		    anledningen att umg}s
> 					
According to the description I have, it is supposed to be available for
VL, ISA, and EISA buses. However, the impression I got in talking to a
person in sales was that they felt that they had so much performance
with ISA, that they were not sure that the VL bus version was necssary...
From: gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Geoffrey A. Coulter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: A.I.R. Motherboard
Date: 23 Nov 92 14:57:28 GMT
Reply-To: gac2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Hello netters:

I have a motherboard I need more information about.  It is made by
Advanced Integration Research (I think), it is a 486/50, EISA, Local
Bus, AMI BIOS.  It calls itself a 486EO, and says 1992 Ver 1.1.  I
need to know if the local bus slot is VESA compatible.  It seems
possible, but I would like to know before I invest in an ATI GUPro.
And I would appreciate a phone number if you could scrape one up.

Now, the approximate age of the board puts it at the leading edge of
the VL bus time frame; there is a handwritten number on it, 102, which
may be its serial number; the manual was for an older model (EISA
only), and made no reference to a local bus slot;the intermediary I
bought it from said it was VESA compatible, but I'm not sure I trust
them.  Those are the straws I am clutching at.

I have no idea what a VL bus slot looks like, but I will describe
this, and if it looks nothing like one, at least proof extending one
direction will exist.  After a normal looking full-length slot, there
is a little space (an inch?) and then a continuation of the slot,
about as long as an eight-bit slot, maybe a little shorter.  This
extension has a break in it like a normal 16-bit slot, about a third
of the way along.  Sorry for the lack of clarity, but perhaps the
diagram will help.

!===============!==========!      !=====!========!

So, is this proprietary, or am I in luck?

Geoffrey Coulter
gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: khioe@gina.jpl.nasa.gov (Kent Hioe)
Subject: Diamond Speedstar 24X limitation.
Keywords: Diamond Speedstar 24X limitation.
Organization: jpl
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:28:08 GMT


Please read this for those interested in Diamond Speedstar 24X.

I just called Diamond regarding Diamond Speedstar 24X.

There is a known bug in their driver for Windows 3.1. It will cause Word For
Window crashes when choosing the OPTION menu in the TOOLS menu bar if you
use Speedstar 24X window driver with any of the 256 color and up. 

To get around this problem they suggested that to use any of the 16 color
window driver.

So be aware to those that plan to buy Diamond Speedstar 24X for their 256 color
and up feature.

As of now, they don't have any date when they are going to have this problem
fixed.


I hope this information helps the Netland.


Diamond tech support # : (800) 949-2345


--
Kent Hioe
Khioe@juno.jpl.nasa.gov



Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Subject: Re: [IBM] XGA-2 Specs.
Reply-To: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:28:03 GMT

Dick Kaul has provided us with some interesting XGA-2 specs.
Could he be troubled to comment on the comparative speed of
this card's VGA, as compared with the motherboard PS/2 VGA?

    Norm Buchignani/University of Lethbridge/BUCHIGNANI@HG.ULETH.CA
"If we have been accustomed to deplore the spectacle...of a workman occupied
during his whole life in nothing else but the making of knife-handles or pins'
heads, we may find something quite as lamentable in the intellectual class, in
the exclusive employment of a human brain in resolving some equations, or in
classifying insects. [This] occasions a miserable indifference about the
general course of human affairs, as long as there are equations to solve and
pins to manufacture."                                      Auguste Comte
From: linh@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need help in looking for system to buy...
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:07:05 CST
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY




      Thanks for taking your time in reading my post.  I would like to
have some of you people out there to help me choosing a system to buy. 
I am thinking about buying a PC system(monitor, printer, keyboard,
modem, and etc...).  Would anyone help and give me some
recommendations?  Any help would be greatly appreciated....  Also, if
possible, please include the cost for it...  thanks..


      Shawn

Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:30088 comp.os.os2.misc:36784
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Fall Comdex - Nov. 16 to Nov. 20
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:13:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: utdallas.BxupI1.Apo
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas

>>   What's the best way to find out what's going on their?
>>   (besides attending)
>>   I'm interested in the OS/2 stuff and new hardware.
>>   I've heard that PK(un)ZIP v2.0 will finally be released at Comdex, don't
>>   know if it will, or what versions will be released.
>>   Anyways...guess that's it...thanks.
>
>	Ziffnet and Computer Shopper are covering COMDEX in the
>Executive Online Forum through the CompuServe network.
>	Of course, you need an account and it ain't free!

Hmmm...well, I certainly don't have CS access.

Hopefully someone will post summarie to the InterNet.
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help: SVGA monitors: interlaced vs non-interlaced?
Distribution: world
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:39:23 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

IMHO, on a 14 inch monitor, this question is moot.  800X600 is
non-interlaced, and with rare exceptions, objects are too small on the
1240X768 resolution to work with.  The few exceptions take up so little of
my time, I can save the extra cost of a non-interlaced screen and put up
with the flicker (which I am very sensitive to - I won't work at a desk
with only flourescent lighting, and prefer no flourescents).

This question, again IMHO, is only a consideration on 17 inch or larger
monitors.


-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

jim_johnson@abcd.houghton.mi.us
from Calumet, Michigan, USA -the world's former copper mining capital, 
located on Lake Superior and home to America's newest National Park,
** The Keweenaw National Historic Park **
From: am112faz@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Shampoo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SB16 vs SBPro ?
Date: 24 Nov 92 04:15:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


  I was wondering what is the difference between these 2 cards?
I heard one is supposely have the shielding?
     Dan

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware