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From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Opinions - Zeos 50MHz
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:24:01 GMT
Summary: ZEOS and the Net, shipping times etc..

In article <sasbge.721451553@ant> sasbge@unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston) writes:
>jjj45754@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (G Y M E) writes:
>
>>Hi,
>
>>I'm interested in upgrading from an IBM pS/2 286 to a 50 MHz machine.
>
>>I have seen a ZEOS brand 50 MHz for an affordable price and would 
>>like some opinions.  Mainly, opinions on ZEOS's computers.
>>Also, if you have any suggestions as to another brand, please let me know.
>
>
>First, I hope to soon be a ZEOS customer.  I ordered my first PC (a ZEOS)
>on Oct 2, 1992 and I'm still waiting.  I was quoted 3 weeks, you figure
>the delay.  I remain firm that regardless of the wait, ZEOS is the
>vendor of choice.  My research shows that they make quality solutions
>out of quality components.  A few tips if you place an order.
>
>Don't believe the sales rep.  The sales reps are "told" to quote "n"
>number of weeks delivery.  Each individual sales rep have no exposure
>to the actual production reality.  Once I figured this out, I wasn't as
>upset about the sales reps inability to explain my delay or get me
>answers.
>
>Make friends with a Customer Service rep.  They are the ones that
>can get you all the info regarding the status of your order.  My experience
>has been top-rate.  They have never failed to call me back with updates
>and/or status info.  I can't say as much for the Tech Support line.  I
>called them six times during the "making up my mind" stage and got
>through four out of six times.  Twice I left messages for a call back
>and never got a call.  The four times that I *did* get through, they
>were very patient and answered all my questions.

How many times did it take for you to get an answer on the net? 
via news or mail? 

[stuff deleted]

The internet connection, usenet news, list server, and new bbs are ideas
that originated from my desk. There are features being implemented on a 
new BBS that are going to make getting answers to technical support and
sales questions convienent for modem users and people that have access 
to the internet.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: c164-cr@po.berkeley.edu (Brian Davila)
Subject: Info on large (>=17") mono or gray scale monitors?
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:13:18 GMT


Subject pretty much sums it up.  Does anybody have any info or know where I
can find some (i.e. magazie review?) It's times like these when I wish I had
that CD-ROM with all those computer periodicals archived...

Thanks in advance,
Brian Davila
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: GECCO Computers ???
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:46:17 GMT

In <6356@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes:

>Now that GECCO is no longer using the Free Technology mother-
>boards in their 33-486DX non local bus systems, I'm interested.
>The new mother board is a Kuhwell (sp?) (based in Santa Fe
>Springs CA I believe).

I'm curious.  What problem did you see with the Free Technologies
motherboards?  I've got an EISA 50 MHz system using one of their
motherboards, and it runs fine.

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From: ternlund@CS.ColoState.EDU (John Ternlund)
Subject: Game-adapt
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:36:44 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University


  Does anyone know what the pin-outs are on the Joystick port for an IBM?
What is button 1, button 2, x,y axis etc?

  My muti-I/O card did't specify what pins did what and I need to get an old
NINE-PIN Apple Joystick (Mach 2) working with this 15pin port. So, I was going
to build a little adapter.  Has anyone done this, <or> does anyone know what
the game port pinouts are?

All opinions expressed or otherwise implied are my own.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
John Ternlund              Software Engineer, Integrated Decision Support,
                                               Colorado State University
Internet: ternlund@mozart.cs.colostate.edu
From: b97459@asbt01.gedlab.allied.com (JIM JOHNSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PS2 hard drives
Date: 10 Nov 92 00:10:30 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: ASAC, GED, Phoenix, Az


	I have a friend with an IBM PS2 model 30 with a 20 meg hard drive. As
you can guess the disk is full. My question is can an outboard hard drive be
connected to this system like a second hard drive in an AT class computer. What
format hard drive does this beast use,(MFM,RLL,SCSI,?). 
	Thanks 
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: do-minh@suned.cs.yale.edu (Minh Do)
Subject: HP laserjet printing
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: Yale University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:19:53 GMT

I would like to dump print files to an HP LaserJet III.  I generate my
output on  one machine using WinWord running under Windows 3.1. The other
machine is hooked up to a machine with no Windows.  I would like to print
to a file, and then take it over to the printer connected machine to dump
it to print.  What I get usually, is a half a page of mixed up output.

I tried using "copy file.hp lpt1" and "print file.hp" without success.

Could someone point me to a solution?  Perhaps there is some small dos
program that slowly spools the output to the printer.  

I do this sort of thing all the time to postscript printers, but it would
be much more convenient for me to do it to an LJ III.  

Thanks in advance.  Please E-mail.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
From: rivero <rivero@cc.unizar.es>
Subject: Re: IR Serial Link - possible?
X-Xxdate: Mon, 9 Nov 92 14:31:59 GMT
Organization: fisica teorica UZ
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:34:25 GMT

In article <1dpbagINNmbf@golem.wcc.govt.nz> , dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
writes:
>I am looking for a remote (infra-red or otherwise) serial link for 
>connecting two computers.

Well, in the USA is there such kind of devices, I have heard.

But if you want try to make it yourselk, you could try two sources:
Comp....HP48 , they know a little of ir conectivity...
Steve Ciarcia works; there were two interesting articles In BYTE
about IR devices, for a PC. It was two years ago.

Have luck,


Alejandro Rivero
Zaragoza Uni
Spain
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com (Scott Linn)
Subject: Re: ATI ULTRA PRO and DESKJET 500
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:03:19 GMT

nazareth@malibu.janet.ucla.edu (Sean F. Nazareth) writes:
: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.
: 
: 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.

This is the exact same problems that occur with the DJ500.  According to
a GW person on the Gateway BBS, it was "a problem with the DeskJet driver".
But, it appears that the dot matrix driver has a problem with the FlexDesk
drivers too, so we can essentially eliminate the DJ500 driver as the
problem.

Would you be so kind as to write a note to technical support on the Gateway
BBS, and let them know your problem?  If they get enough complaints about
the FlexDesk driver, perhaps they will get serious and fix them!

Scott Linn
scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com
From: feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke)
Subject: Re: Colorado Jumbo 250MB Tape Streamer (8 Q's)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:56:30 GMT

In article <mg.720955284@atomic> mg@atomic (Michael Golan) writes:
>
>Would you and/or other users be so kind as to tell how us how well the 
>MicroSolutions drive works? Speed, reliablity? OS/2 support (FAT)?
>It seems a great solution if you have more than one PC. is it?
>
>Thanks!
> Michael Golan
> mg@princeton.edu

The MicroSolutions drive is slower than molasses.  But I am comparing
that to the CMS drive running from their TC-15 card.

I would say it runs about 1/4 as fast.
The MicroSolutions software is markedly different and does not
allow as much versatility as the CMS software.  For example,
there is no Search capability.  I do not know how this
drive compares with the new CMS printer port drive.

CMS has  announced a tape drive which works from the printer
port.  This certainly as attraction from the point of view for
sharing the drive with more than one PC, just as one can do
with printers.  BTW, the printer does not seem affected by
the tape drive.

OS/2 is not yet supported by CMS, tho I understand that there are
other mfr's drives which are.  CMS promises OS/2 support by year-end.
On the comp.os.os2.misc net people have posted ways to get the
CMS drive to work with OS/2 using the msdos software.  
I have no experience with this.

Forrest Gehrke feg@dodger.att.com
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From: ronaldm@rgm.com (Ronald Mendoza)
Subject: ESDI + IDE ?
Organization: RGM *nix - Sacramento, CA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:51:27 GMT

Hi everyone.  I've got a Miniscribe 9380E ESDI, and was wondering if I could
add in my Conner CP30104 IDE and/or Western Digital WDAC280 IDE drive(s).

My ESDI controller is a Maple MC-1175, which can be changed to the secondary
address/irq, but I just have a no-frills Unique IDE controller.

Is this possible?  How would I go about doing it?
From: steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: MFM contollers with selectable interrupts?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 21:22:26 GMT
Organization: Math Department, Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: pitacat.math.cwru.edu

I recently inherited a Maxtor XT-2190 disk drive, which I have learned is
an MFM drive.  I would like to attach it to my 386 box running Interactive
Systems Unix.  My primary disk and controller is ESDI.  So what I need is
an MFM controller which allows me to select the interrupt (say 15), and allows me to select the secondary I/O addresses for the controller.  (I can select the BIOS address on the ESDI controller to avoid conflicts).  Fortunately, ISC Unix is smart enough to handle two (heterogeneous) controllers.

Does such a controller card exist?  If so, how much should I expect to pay for it.  Please respond by e-mail since I don't read this group regularly.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
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From: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Aquarius Motherboards ???
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:14:49 GMT
Distribution: comp

I'm looking at a system that uses a 33 MHz 486DX motherboard
made by Aquarius. I'm not familiar with them. The company
advertises 8-layer boards with gold contacts and metal SIMM
sockets. Everything sounds good, but I know nothing about
the engineering, reliability and compatiobility of the MB.
Any comments would be appreciated.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Marine Biotechnology Lab   Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara
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From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How can I low-level format IDE drive ?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 19:32:11 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
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Originator: news@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu

In article <general_user.4@uk.ac.uea.sys> general_user@uk.ac.uea.sys writes:
>I LL formatted my Fujitsu 2616ET (102Mb) drive using the AMI bios setup
>program.  I left all the interleave settings to the bios setup (it attempts
>to work out the best interleave).  The drive seems to still work fine...
>except it seems to be a little slow in data transfer (Coretest reports 
>630Kb/s or so).  Does anyone know whether LL formatting the drive could have 
>slowed it down, does anyone have a 2616ET that achieves a higher transfer 
>rate, and if I have slowed the drive down, can I do anything about it now?

You probably let it pick an interleave of three, which is what the AMI
BIOS generally defaults to.  I don't think the BIOS determines interleave
intelligently; it just picks the lowest common denominator.  I don't know
of any exceptions to the fact that IDE drives always use 1:1 interleave.
Perhaps some obscure ones use something else, but I bet your Fujitsu is
being hampered by use of the wrong interleave.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell)
Subject: Re: ATI video driver problem
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:30:13 GMT

ez6806225@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg writes:

>Help!
>I just bought an ATI Vantage and found out that at 800x600x256 color modes,
>certain programs like Photostyler and Painter cannot work (General Protection 
>Fault or something like that). Strange thing is that it works fine under the
>1024x768x256 color modes. I have a 14" monitor so I normally run Windows at
>the 800x600 mode. Has anyone encountered this similar problem before? 
>Is it a driver problem and if it is, how can I get an upgrade (ftp??).
>Thanks for the time!
 
   The 1024x768x256 mode is done on the 8514/A part of the card, and
requires 1MB of memory. The 800x600x256 mode is done on the SVGA part of
the card, which has separate memory, and 512K is needed. It may be that
you bought the card with 1MB in the 8514/A part, but only 256K for SVGA.
That is how mine came in the box. Need to go out and buy a few more chips!

   Of course, if you have 1MB/512K installed, I haven't got a clue...


Dave Halliwell
Department of Geography
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Microlab is a rip-off!!! BEWARE!!!
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:08:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov12.220835.22224
Distribution: na
Organization: clearer than blir

In article <1992Nov12.190214.16874@news2.cis.umn.edu> spicer@sponge.micro.umn.edu (Troy Spicer) writes:
>In <83386@ut-emx.uucp> reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu (Alireza Vali) writes:
>
>>It's a shot in the dark, but I'm going to call my credit card company and
>>the post office to see whether what they did constitutes fraud.
>
>>-- 
>>Ali R. Vali - reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu
>
>Go with the credit card company.  If you received something you didn't order
>(and especially if they refuse to take it back) the credit card company
>will credit your account and then do a chargeback to the company, and the
>company will have to prove they sent you what you ordered.
> 
>I ordered a mini-tower computer case from them on their insistance that
>a full size motherboard would fit in it.  (The salesperson was not very
>helpful).  It didn't.  I was able to exchange it though.
>
>Situations like these are compelling reasons to use ONLY a credit card
>with all mail-order transactions.

As a self-espoused COD orderer I like to follow up to these type posts.
Okay, how is it an advantage in this case? If I'd ordered this video
card COD this is what would have happened.

1. Delivery guy arrives.
2. I check the contents of the order
3. I see that they sent a video card I don't want.
4. I send the delivery guy away without giving him any money.

The only thing the credit card company helps you do is get the money
back that's already gone. With COD, it's not gone and you don't need
the help.

Once again I will insert my standard disclaimer that there are two
situations in which I agree a credit card can be a better deal:

1. Cards that offer a price guarantee (they'll refund the difference
   if you find the same thing cheaper later).
2. Cards that offer automatic extended warranties at no extra charge.

I may add to the list above, but I'm not going to add the case
described here, because using a credit card didn't help anything that
couldn't have been avoided by going COD in the first place.

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Spinrite II on IDE drives
Date: 5 Nov 1992 15:09:38 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
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In article <1datogINNnkt@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cstadbt@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr C A Elliott) writes:
>Many BIOS (especially AMI) will low level format an IDE drive (it will
>also put hundreds of errors on it and kill it), but the only real way
>to do it is to use the software that manufacturers supply. Despite working
>for a company that used thousands of Seagate drives a day, Seagate would
>still not let us have a copy of the software, although I have used the
>Western Digital software. When drives would come back for repair, many
>had been low levelled using various programs, and all were dumped and had
>to be replaced with new drives.

Funny that, when I called Seagate regarding a 1239A that had been mistakenly
low-levelled by the install program of 386BSD 0.0 (which has been fixed, BTW)
the tech person gave me information on the drive that permitted me to
low-level it again with Disk Manager in manual mode and the drive was completely
restored.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra or Diamond SpeedStar 24X?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:47:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.004249.10916@cc.umontreal.ca> lebeld@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Lebel David) writes:
>	I'm about to buy an ISA 486/33 from a local clown vendor. However,
>I do plan to get a videocard from them also, or maybe I could go to
>mail-order to buy it. I've around 250$-300$ (maximum) to put on a 
>accelerated card (in Canadian bills, so around 225$ to 275$ US). Someone
>pointed me to the Diamond SpeedStar 24x as the fastest of its class and
>PC Connection sells it for 179$ (pretty good price). However, I heard
>that you cannot drive OS/2 in bigger resolutions (like 1024x768x256)
>with it. Am I true?  I do plan to use OS/2 alot, along Windows and DOS. So I
>want something good in every field.  Is the ATI Ultra smarter choice despite
>the fact its slower?
>
The OS/2 support for resolutions beyond the 640x480 has been delayed because
of the delay in releasing the 32 bit graphics engine. Diamond is an IBM
business partner. I am sure that the OS/2 drivers will be coming out
shortly. Contact Diamond for more info : 408-736-2000.

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From: ygan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Yin Huang Gan)
Subject: Need FAQ for comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:43:00 GMT

I am wondering if there is a FAQ for this newsgroup. If yes, where can
I get the archive of the past FAQs ? I do have 'archie' on my site but
I couldn't search properly (too broad of matching or no match at all).
Any help/info to find this FAQ will be greatly appreciated. 

Also, if one has a copy of any related FAQ, would you kindly e-mail me
a copy to gan@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu. Thanks in advance.



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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: IDE or SCIS, which is better for HDD?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:52:56 GMT

In <96201@netnews.upenn.edu> turabe@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Toshiyuki Urabe) writes:

>Hi,

>I'm considering to upgrade my HDD. I'm now using 486DX-33MHz with
>130MB IDE HDD and need more 200MB for installing windows, windowsNT,
>OS/2, Linux.

>I want to ask is
>1) Can I install two IDE HDD's?

Yes.

>2) What is the advantage of SCSI?

More drives per controller, faster data transfer if you have a
bus-mastering controller, larger drives available than for IDE, same
controller can run disks, tapes, CD-ROM, etc.

>3) I have SCSI controller along with PAS-16. I heard that this is
>   *WEAK* SCSI controller. Suppose I install Adaptec1542, is this
>   strong enough to support windowsNT, OS/2, Linux?

The AHA-1542 is a bus-mastering ISA controller.  It is pretty much a
'standard' and I would expect everyone to support it.  I know that
support is written directly into OS/2 for this controller.

>4) Is it possible to assign SCSI drive to boot drive?

Yes.  I'm running a system at home with an IDE controller installed
(which only controls the floppy drives -- no hard drives attached) and
an AHA-1740A SCSI controller with a Maxtor Panther drive.  It runs and
boots fine.  Note that if you want to have more than 2 drives per SCSI
controller, if you want multiple SCSI controllers, or if you want to
support other than hard drives, you will need to install your machine
as having 0 hard drives and then let the SCSI controller take care of
things.  You will also need some drivers (provided with the
controller, usually).

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