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Subject: Fujitsu hard disk ?
Reply-To: rob@sound.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
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Organization: Sound & Vision BBS (UK) 0932 252323
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:58:30 +0000

Can anyone tell me anything about this Fujitsu Hard Disk ?
i.e. size, type, likelihood to break down ?

Fujitsu M2227D2 (Part B03B-4815-B104A#B) 1989-1

cheers
-rob-

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From: copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Motherboards with OPTI ch
Date: 28 Dec 92 20:44:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Digital Underground - PRIVATE
Reply-To: copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) 

To: tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au

TE>I am about to upgrade my 286 to a 386DX40 with OPTI chipset.
  >I have seen a lot of postings about problems with OPTI chipsets
  >with soundblaster, OS/2 etc.

TE>OPTI chipsets are well know and widely used. I am not likely to use
  >OS/2 or Soundbalster (at least in the near future). However, I really
  >need to use windows and various dos application.

TE>Is OPTI chipsets generally known as reliable and compatible with other
  >hardware and most software? I'll apprectiate any opinions and experiences
  >on OPTI chipsets.

If you could please e-mail me a summary

Thanks

Chris Nalley - copernicus@digund.uucp
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Monitor died. Looking for parts.
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:57:22 GMT

Hi,

I posted before about my monitor dying. I traced the fault to
a dead transistor in the high voltage circuit. It is a power
transistor, most likely the one that controls the horizontal
deflection. It only has C3883 written on it. It has been
suggested to me that it is a 2SC3883, but the shop I went
to could not find it.
My question is, do you know the specs of this transistor and
even more to the point, a replacement type that is more easy
to find.

I know this might not be the best group to post to, but
here it is all the same.

Thanks
Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: j_manning@csc32.enet.dec.com (John Manning)
Subject: Computers Sales Professionals and Symphony chipset
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:51:29 GMT



Hi,

I am looking for any comments on a couple of subjects:

1) Any experience with Computer Sales Professionals(CSP) in NJ, specifically
their 486DX2-66 system

2) Symphony 486 chipset in general(any known incompatibilities)

Thanks,

John

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.laptops
From: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
Subject: Re: Use 110V,60Hz equip at 100V,60Hz??
Reply-To: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:24:58 GMT

in comp.sys.laptops, olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com said:

>In article <1992Dec15.182150.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca> comptec91025@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Ian Hobday) writes:
>>    I will be travelling to Japan in early January for an extended stay.  I 
>>will probably be taking a TI TM2000 notebook computer and Canon Bubblejet 
>>printer with me.  Where I will be living (Osaka) the power is 100V, 60Hz.  
>>The equipment is designed for 110V, 60Hz.  Is this going to cause any 
>>problems, either immediately, or over the long term?  
>
>This is very machine dependent.  IBM XT supplies work from 90-137 Vac and
>47-63 Hz.  Check the specifications for your portable.

There should be a Specifications section in the manual somewhere, and
it ought to give power requirements.  Maybe not, though.  The only
Specs page I see in the manuals for my Zenith is in the Tech Ref
manual, which I had to order separately at a cost of over $100.

Laptops tend to be powered from an external power converter of some type
which in turn plugs into the wall.  The laptop manual may not include the
specs on the external power converter, and it may have no separate manual.

In my case, the Specs section of my $100 Tech Ref manual says

    Power Requirements AC adapter.charger:

    Input:  95 to 132 VAC, 48 to 64 Hz
    Output:  25 to 29 VDC, 30 W Continuous, 500 mVpp max ripple

And the case of the Zenith Data Systems AC Adapter itself is embossed

    Input 105-125/210-240 VAC, 1.4/0.7A, 60/50 Hz
    Output 27V = 0.9A : 32V = 0.1A OR 27V = 0.1A : 32V = 1.5A

I could call my local ZDS dealer and ask, but he's unlikely to have better
information than I have.  I could call Zenith direct, and might get some
information I thought I could trust if I spent a day or so on the phone.
Then again, I might get no information, or bad information.

What I probably would do is either

1.  Measure the voltages at the input to the laptop in operation
    at whatever voltage came out of the wall in the U.S. at the time
    of my test; then repeat that at 100V, 95V, 90V; then decide
    whether I thought it would work.

2.  Get a transformer which would boost the nominal 100V line voltage
    (likely to be somewhere betwixt 90 and 110 at any given time, probably)
    up to the 105-125V range, and add it to the collection of stuff I
    lug around with my laptop.

3.  Just try it and hope it works.  I'd expect that it probably would
    work, and would probably not die a nasty death if the voltage turned
    out to be too low.  I could probably get a step-up transformer in
    Japan if need be.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pconnor@ishtar.med.jhu.edu (Paul Connor x5-8318)
Subject: Compaq vs Dell vs Gateway
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:10:59 GMT

Our department will be buying 4-6 ibm pc clones within a month.
I am interested in the following system lines:
	- Compaq Deskpro /M 
	- Dell 486DE
	- Gateway 4DX**V 
We are concerned with reliability more so than price/performance.
That is, for our situation, we would rather pay $1000 more per machine
if we were confident that we would have fewer system problems.

Does anyone have experience with these systems?

Paul Connor
Johns Hopkins University
pconnor@ishtar.med.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: s3176997@techst02.technion.ac.il (Daphne Rosenhouse)
Subject: SOFTWARE DAMAGING HARDWARE ???
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:28:53 GMT
From: jowalker@zeus.calpoly.edu (Jonathan Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: VESA LB motherboards
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:52:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

I am trying to find out whether or not there is an american motherboard
manufacturer that produces a 486dx-50 with local bus slots.
If so how does this fit in with the VESA standard that only allows for
33mhz clock speed? I read somewhere that 486-50dx motherboards would be
capable of VLB if the bus speed was slowed down for those slots.

Is this possible?

One other question, Are either AMI, Mylex, or Micronics making 486-dx33
(or 486dx-50) motherboards with more than one LB slot on them?

Has anyone heard pricing on any of these?

thanks for all replies.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jtw@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (jui-tai.wang)
Subject: Re: Micronics (Gateway) VL-Bus motherboards don't accept regular SIMMs
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:40:48 GMT


One source claimed G2K use 36(32?) bit SIMM. "Normally" people (include myself)
think of SIMM being 9 bit SIMM. Advantage of 36(32?) bit SIMM is that you know
for sure your memory bus is 32 bits ( most likely). My 16 bit 386SX use
9 bit SIMM, since the memory bus is only 16 bit (and thus every time if
I add memory, I need to add 2 SIMM at least).

Other way to look at: you need 4 1Mx9 SIMM to give you 4MB of 32 bit memory,
but you need only 1 4Mx36(32?) SIMM to get the same 4MB 32 bit memory.

Richard
disclaimer: above does not represent my employer's opinion at all.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane)
Subject: Re: Why memory costs doubled
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:38:46 GMT

In <BzzID0.1zC@fc.hp.com> chuckc@fc.hp.com (Chuck Cairns) writes:

>  You have it exactly backwards.  If dumping is allowed to go
>  unchecked, then any country can carve out a monopoly position using
>  government funds and/or funds from other divisions of huge
>  conglomerates.  This allows them to destroy US industries with dumping
>  and other unfair trade practices.  The artificial short-term gain in
>  lower RAM prices is more than offset by the long-term damage to the
>  world trading system and to US industry.

Unfortunately, market dynamics argue against you. The same line was used about
three years ago against Japanese companies. They raised their prices and mem-
ory costs shot sky-high (and they reaped a substantial windfall). Guess who
was damaged most by the artificial shortage? U.S. computer companies who got
caught in the middle. Apple was particularly hard hit because they purchased
memory at inflated prices on the spot market.

One might guess that this would lead to a Japanese ownership of the market.
No! Can you say South Korea boys and girls? Japanese producers are being under-
cut by the Koreans. And if the Koreans try to use their market share to jack
up prices, American and Japanese (and European) producers will scalp them.

Memory prices deflate as a function of technology. It will be impossible for
any one company or country to corner the market. The moment this happens, other
producers will step in. Market history shows this to be the case.

>Any comments/flames by email only please, so as to not bother other readers.
>CC

On this, I disagree with you. This is a discussion which is very relevent to
all of us and I consider this forum to be appropriate.

Paul A. Lane
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: udaya@datamark.co.nz (Udaya Kumar)
Subject: scsi+ide Twin Controller lcs-6633f
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:35:16 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.
Keywords: SCSI, IDE, Controller


Hi everybody


I am looking for more info about Longshine's SCSI+IDE Twin Controller.

	-	Performance
	-	Installation
	-	reliability & Conflict with other devices
	- 	cost 
	-	usage with dos 5 and Linux

Thanks in advance.


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From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: IBM PC/AT Questions (Please Help!)
Date: 24 Dec 92 14:17:06 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1hb8puINNphf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ck060@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric L. Hinson) writes:
>
>I am soon going to be purchasing a used IBM PC/AT, and had a
>few questions that I hope to have answered before I make the
>purchase final.
> 
>The system I will be getting consists of the following parts:
> 
>o IBM PC/AT w/640K RAm
>o SeaGate 20 Megabyte Hard drive
>o 5.25" 1.2 Megabyte high density Disk Drive (1)
>o 5.25" 360K Disk Drive (1)
>o IBM CGA Monitor (and card)
>o IBM AT Keyboard
> [stuff deleted] 
>All other hardware is the same.  I ran Norton's SI.EXE program
>on this PC/AT and came up with the following information:
> 
>         Computer Name: IBM AT
>      Operating System: DOS 3.10
>   Built-in BIOS dated: Tuesday, January 10, 1984
>        Main Processor: Intel 80286              Serial Ports: 1
>          Co-Processor: None                   Parallel Ports: 2
> Video Display Adapter: Monochrome (MDA)
>    Current Video Mode: Text, 25 x 80 Monochrome
> Available Disk Drives: 3, A: - C:
> 
>DOS reports 512 K-bytes of memory:
>    47 K-bytes used by DOS and resident programs
>   465 K-bytes available for application programs
>A search for active memory finds:
>   512 K-bytes main memory     (at hex 0000-8000)
>    32 K-bytes display memory  (at hex B000-B800)
> 
>  Computing Index (CI), relative to IBM/XT: 5.9
>       Disk Index (DI), relative to IBM/XT: 2.5
> 
>Performance Index (PI), relative to IBM/XT: 4.7
> 
>What speed does this system run at (in MHz)?  Also, is $300 a
>good price for such a system?  (I think so..)

Judging by the BIOS date (which is old for an IBM AT; I guess this
is a model 039) it should by 6 MHz. That BIOS does not support
the 101-key enhanced keyboard.

>Are there any problems with a machine of this type?  Is there
>anything I should know or watch out for as far as the hardware
>is concerned?  Thanks for your help.

That motherboard is pretty much the standard as far as compatibility goes.
It would probably be better to upgrade to the final (11/85) PC-AT BIOS
but there are no longer any "official" sources for that. 


>--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jbuhler@owlnet.rice.edu (Jeremy Daniel Buhler)
Subject: Error 1700, sez IBM PC
Summary: What does an IBM PC's "Error 1700" on POST mean? 
Keywords: post error 1700
Organization: Rice University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:55:20 GMT
Expires: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 06:00:00 GMT

Howdy all.  A friend of mine demands I fix her ancient IBM PC (the original,
I believe, since I haven't actually seen it; AT at best), for which she has
NO manuals (it was a "gift" from a user who moved up to a reasonable machine).
When she starts the beast, it posts "Error 1700" and halts.  I don't have
a list of error codes, so please, what does this error denote?

Please reply by email to jbuhler@owlnet.rice.edu, as there is *NO* way I can
keep up with the traffic here :-).


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:28:03 GMT

In article <BzoF8z.1MM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
>From what I HEARD (I don't know myself for sure) the '040 are all
>clock doublers.


	Lemme guess?  You heard it here.  Well, wrong.
 
	Nuff said.  Motorola does not make *any* clock doubled
	chips.  The 68040 is faster than the '486 at the same clockspeed
	because it's *faster*--it executes a lot more instructions at the
	1 cycle/per rate than the i486.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dan@halcyon.com (Dan Lawrence)
Subject: Vesa driver for ET4000?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:07:51 GMT

I have purchased a new video card (at the suggestion of replacing NOT
repairing my dead Trident card) that is based on the Tseng ET4000 chip
with a HICOLOR chip.  

The card came with a VESA tsr driver that clames VESA standard version
1.1.  I understand that there is a newer version?  I would like to be
able to access the 32K color modes via VESA calls.

Is there a vesa ftp site or bbs?

How about a Tseng ftp site or bbs?

What I would really like is a program that wil view jpeg pictures in the
various 256 and 32K color modes that my tseng card supports and runs on
a 286 with 2 meg of ram.  Any suggestions?

Please reply via Email to dan@halcyon.com as this group expires before I
can read all of it.  I will post a followup if there is interest

dan@halcyon.com
Dan Lawrence    Seattle, WA  USA
From: tmh@keks.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Is there a TT Crystal Font Driver for the ATI 8514 Ultra (Mach 8)?
Date: 27 Dec 92 19:50:34 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin

Subject says it all, really. I bought an ATI 8514 Ultra a couple of
months ago. It's ISA and MC and contains no VGA hardware but takes VGA
output either from the slot or via the feature port (I use it with a
Diamond Speedstar ET4k based SVGA). It came with Crystal Font drivers
for Windows 3.0 and although only Times, Helvetica and Symbol were
supported (and the "additional font pack" never materialized) it was a
god sent, when I wrote my thesis with WinWord. Then came Windows 3.1
with it's own font scaling engine and Crystal fonts ceased working.
Now ATI is advertizing True Type compatible Crystal Font drivers for
their new Mach 32 based Ultra series and I wonder whether they still
happen to support their "old" hardware and whether 1) the new drivers
can be used directly or 2) they have new drivers.

Please reply via e-mail
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rwojtowi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ryszard Wojtowicz)
Subject: the cable for IBM printer
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:31:32 GMT



      >>>>>>>>>>>    I  HELP  I     <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
                      I      I
                       I    I
                        I  I
                         II
                         \/
                         ME

 I need help to find the serial cable 25 pin male 15 pin male,
 for IBM Personal Pageprinter 4216-020 (Laser).
 I still interesting about this serial cable, and every thing,
  - Installation program for this printer (IBM 4216-020)
  - Doc's for printer and adaptor card.

  Please give me call or leave massage for me in my E-mail.
    I will apprecaite that.

    Ryszard Wojtowicz     < rwojtowi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu >
    614 - 777-1210
From: tony@cns.nyu.edu (Tony Movshon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitor Tube Aging Question
Date: 28 Dec 92 03:59:28 GMT
Reply-To: tony@cns.nyu.edu
Organization: New York University

In article XokcwB2w165w@infopls.chi.il.us, eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert) writes:
> Does a monitor which is always displaying pictures 
> "wear-out" more quickly than a monitor which is 
> displaying no picture, assuming that both monitors 
> are always powered-up, and the pictures are constantly 
> in motion to prevent burn-in? 
>  
> In other words,
>  
> When the monitor is idle, is a screen-BLANKing program 
> more "healthy" for the monitor than a program which 
> bounces images of toasters about the screen?
> 
> Will the tube "run out of gauss?"

Just being on does age a monitor, but the usual problem is that the
phosphors gradually burn out. A screen saver that leaves most of the
screen dark most of the time is almost at good at preventing phosphor
burn as a blanker, but not quite. What the saver will do it prevent 
the image of your "standard" screen setup, whatever that may be, from
being burned in by uneven phosphor burnout.

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					Center for Neural Science
					New York University
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From: cek@sdc.boeing.com (Conrad Kimball)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Pitfalls? Got SCSI, want to add RLL
Date: 31 Dec 92 05:11:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boeing Computer Services (ESP), Seattle, WA

In article <1992Dec29.062210.20036@nwnexus.WA.COM> markmc@halcyon.com (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>I have a newish 486 with a big SCSI disk + tape (Unix + DOS partitions), and a 
>dead 386SX with an RLL controller & Seagate 30 MB drive.
>
>I'd like to at least temporarily install the RLL controller & Seagate
>drive in the 486, in order to back up the Seagate to a tape. If there's
>no particular reason not to, I'd probably just leave the drive there to
>be D:.
>
>I have enough IRQs; anything else to watch out for? Thanks in advance.

I had a 386 with an RLL drive & controller and then bought a SCSI drive
& controller.  I discovered that the only way to get the two to operate
together was to have the RLL drive as C: and the SCSI drive as D:.  The
reason is that apparently during system boot the motherboard BIOS detects
the presence of the RLL drive before the SCSI controller BIOS has a chance
to get control, and the hard drive letters are assigned in the order the
drives are detected.
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From: zuniga@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Ralph Zuniga (FREAC/CAR))
Subject: COMTRADE (The Company)
Organization: Florida State University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 22:30:20 GMT

Anyone know anything about this company?? I'm looking at their
machines and they look good. But I'm wondering about any 
customer complaints, etc. Has anyone had any dealings with this
company?? Does anyone have a Comtrade computer?? If so, are you
satisfied with it??? Thank you.