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From: t06@clark.edu (Torry Schreiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: WANTED:  AST SixPakPlus Drivers
Date: 9 Jan 93 20:20:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: clark.1993Jan9.202055.16784
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA

The subject just about says it all.  I need a copy of the drivers
disk(s) for an AST SixPakPlus Rev. J card.  Please e-mail me if you have
any information.

-- 
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     little and then let everybody know just how much you know.
                Just ask me.  I'll tell ya about it.
             Torry V. Schreiner  (a.k.a. t06@clark.edu)
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From: fn@junior.mathtok.polymtl.ca (Francois Normant)
Subject: Western Digital fax number needed
Organization: Mathematiques Appliquees - Ecole Polytechnique - Montreal
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:20:47 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for the fax number of Western Digital Hard Drives
technical support.

Thanks in advance. Please answer by e-mail.


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From: warren@wam.umd.edu (the stupid one)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Mini Disk technology
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:00:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

thus quoth dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap):
 The next question is that of capacity.  If the MD player is at CD
 quality, it will record at about 44,000 16-bit samples per second.  I
 believe the time-limit of a MD is 74 minutes.  This yields 44,000 x 74
 x 60 = 195360000 or 186MW or 372MB.  This is unformatted, of course.

*2 for stereo BUT
they use a lossy compression method to reduce the data to 8 bits
so this is correct

but we already have rewritable magneto-optical media for PC's
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From: burley@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Micronics 1-800 number?
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:31:05
Organization: Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Cambridge, MA 02139
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In-reply-to: hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com's message of 8 Jan 93 00:24:10 GMT

In article <8989@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com> hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz) writes:

   |> I have a Micronics memory board and need the users manual.
   |> 
   |> Does anyone have their Email, snail mail, and/or 1-800 number?

A number I have for them is 510-651-9901, try calling that.  I got my
EISA-II configuration diskette, and later ordered a manual, via that
number (and an extension # and name of someone to talk to, info I'm
unwilling to post since I'm unsure whether it represents a tech support
person or just a Friend Of A Friend).
--

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Member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF) lpf@uunet.uu.net
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From: GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames)
Subject: 486/33 performance
Organization: Saint Mary's University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:20:11 GMT

How many wait states are typical for a 486/33. Our PC vendor's 486/33 are 
coming configured with 2 ws for dram read/write and 2 wait states for off 
chip cache read/write.

Is it possible to get a 486/33 with 0 wait states.

If any one has checkit and/or norton SI, I would be interested in the 
results of system performance tests.

I will summarize and post if I get enough responses
From: james@george.UUCP (james shoemaker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Archive Contact
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 21:10:56 CST
Organization: Organization for creative time-wasting

        I have a Heath HBT-40 and My software has gone bad.  I need a 
copy of Quikstream 1.92B.  The Heath HPT-40 connects to the floppy 
controller.  I would like either a phone number or Address so I could 
call Archive and obtain another copy to replace the disk that has gone 
bad.

                                        JWS
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:11:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.192345.7949@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>In <1992Dec30.000820.3526@athena.mit.edu> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:
>
>>In article <sheldon.725671411@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
>>	sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
>
>>> But since these are targeted for commercial usage, they're most likely
>>>only testing 1 in every 100 or so, as Mike said, a few out of each batch.
>
>>I thought yields for recent microprocessors were well under 100% (and
>>probably under 50%).  If this is the case, every chip must be tested.
>
>I think 30% (or less) is a more realistic yield number.

Perhaps they test a few processors on a wafer? And if the processors
fail then the whole wafer is thrown out? Makes sense to me.. perhaps
what causes problems are registration of masks or bad doping, which 
would affect entire wafers, not just one chip on the wafer.



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From: khor@bnr.ca (Kyle Hor)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Reply-To: khor@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:07:57 GMT

In article <C0Co70.1ID@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
|> In article <sheldon.725671411@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
|> > But since these are targeted for commercial usage, they're most likely
|> >only testing 1 in every 100 or so, as Mike said, a few out of each batch.
|> 
|> > Chances are also good that if any of the sample batch fails the 25 Mhz, and
|> >depending on the percent failed, they'll test all chips in that batch to see
|> >if any of them are salvageable before they go throwing them all out the
|> >door.  Of course this last one depends on the economics of how expensive it
|> >is to test all the chips vs. just making new ones.
|> 
I beg your pardon.  Ever since the Japanese IC 'revolution', *ALL* IC
chips (no matter their size, complexity or commercial grade) are
tested before they are shipped.  The tests (electrical) may vary in
completeness and stringent-ness (sp?) but the tests are performed.
 
|> Just wondering: at what point do they test the chips, and how? Do they
|> do it while at the wafer stage, before they encase it in ceramic? How
|> are the connections made?
|> 
Tests are performed at various stages to reduce the cost of buidling
an IC that is bad in the 1st place.  Many of these are sampling test. 
But at final test 100% of the chips are tested.  And it is usually
during this stage that grading is done.
 
The normal practice is to test against the highest grade, lets say 50MHz.
If it fails that, then it will be downgraded to the next and so on. If
it fails the lowest grade, 20MHz (?) then it will be scraped.

For a 33MHz grade, the chip is usually tested to pass at, say 35MHz. 
The industry calls this the guard band.   Another factor, is the
market demand at the point in time.  If the manufacturer happen to
come out with a large batch of 33MHz chips but there is great demand
for 25MHz chips, they will simply re-label these to 25MHz and ship it.
This is referred to as downgrading.  (Somewhat confusing as there are
real downgrades during final electrical test). 
 
Anyway I do not represent any IC manufacturer. Enuf said.

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From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner)
Subject: dc2120 tape cartridge error rate
Keywords: dc2120 tape cartridge error rate
Organization: York University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:35:20 GMT

What is the expected read/write error rate on DC2120 120MB tape
cartridges?  When using my IOmega Insider 250 drive, and Central Point
Backup software, I am seeing approximately three (software-correctable)
errors per 100MB when I do a backup and restore.  Is this normal?

Thanks,

-- 
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From: popineau@prunel.ese-metz.fr (Fabrice Popineau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Pro Designer IIs
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:08:30 GMT
Organization: Ecole Superieure d'Electricite, Etablissement de Metz, France.
X-Posted-From: prunel.ese-metz.fr
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


Hi netters,

I have a ProDesigner IIs that shows some disfunction : it runs fine with Windows 3.1, and some programs I wrote in TurboPascal, but when I run some games or other assembly programs, one of the colors is wrong on the display. I got some red where it should be black.

Did anybody notice such problem ? Can the card be faulty, or is it only a software problem ?

My computer is a 386/33 , AMI bios (1989), the bios version for the ProDesigner is v1.1 . 

Thanks for any clue,

F. Popineau
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From: rusin@mp.cs.niu.edu (David Rusin)
Subject: Re: 386MAX and Ethernet drivers won't play nice -- now they do.
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:23:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.192101.27329@mp.cs.niu.edu> I wrote 
...
>I tried 386MAX for the first time. All worked well until I tried
>loading 386MAX in config.sys (even without using it to load drivers
>or TSRs) and then loading the ethernet software.
...
I received multiple swift useful responses -- Thanks!. The best 
turned out to be a variant of 'RTFM' : use 386MAX's own utilities to
set up the loading syntax. I don't know why, really, but loading
3c503.com with the 386MAX parameters 'size=...' and 'flexframe' worked.

Just goes to show: computers can be infuriating but the net is great.
dave rusin@math.niu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: van@venice.sedd.trw.com (Ken VanCovering)
Subject: SCSI Tape Question
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 local 1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:31:48 GMT


Is it possible to use a tape drive to store continuous data at high
rates (128KB/s)?  I was thinking of purchasing a high capacity DAT tape
drive (>1G) and using it to archive data over a SCSI-2 bus.  Is this
feasible?  How fast can data be transferred over the ISA or EISA bus?
Does anyone know if data is transferred by bytes, words, or long words?

Thanks,

Ken
From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE vs. SCSI
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:22:31 GMT
	<C0pCsI.5CM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu's message of 11 Jan 93 18:31:29 GMT
bcc: carl


>>So if speed is your concern, I'd say SCSI is your answer.

>The corollary to this, of course, is that if money is a problem, 
>IDE is your answer.

>The way I look at it is that if you want lots of drives, super large
>drives and very fast transfer rates SCSI is the answer, but you'll 
>need lots of moolah for it. 

I absolutely agree.  The one caveat is that, should you plan to add a
second disk to your system it is advisable to buy from the same
manufacturer.  You will almost definitely have less problems this way.

-Carl-
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From: hielsche@aragorn.CSEE.Lehigh.Edu (Frank Hielscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway2000 486DX-33 ??
Date: 9 Jan 93 23:46:03 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

jschuler@dcs.simpact.com writes:

>1. Does the CD-ROM drive have a SCSI interface?
>2. Can the two sets of function keys on the Anykey keyboard 
> be programmed separately (i.e. F1 on vertical set return a different
> sequence than the F1 horizontal)?
>Thanks in advance,
>John Schuler

1. The Sony CD-ROM comes with its own (proprietary ?) host adapter card,
   which therefore uses up a slot. The driver software configures this
   as a network drive (not as a floppy or hard disk drive). This caused
   a momentary problem when I tried to install one of my programs. The
   program (I forgot which one) claimed that I did not have the network
   version (correct) and thus would not install. I had to disable the
   CD-ROM driver, installed the program, and then energized the driver
   again. Worked fine.

2. The Anykey keyboard. Well, yes, the left-side F keys are independent
   from the top row F keys, and thus are independently programmable. But
   I am not sure how useful this reprogrammable feature really is. I use
   many other machines, and this feature just leads to confusion. The
   feel of the Gateway keyboard is very nice (soft, quiet, positive
   feedback). But the layout of some of the keys is awful. The Capslock
   key is where I expect the Ctrl key, and the Ctrl key is where I expect
   the Alt key. Yes, I know that I can reprogram them. But then I have to
   paste little stickers on top of the keys so I can remember what I did.

Cheers.
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From: tclark@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Terry Clark)
Subject: Everex files for Cpapter 11 Bankruptcy
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:24:57 GMT

From The Wall Street Journal (1/5/93):
   Everex Systems Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
With annual sales of more than $500 million Everex recently estimated
a loss of between $80 million to $120 million for fiscal year ending
8/2/92.
   Last month auditors questioned Everex's ability to continue
as a going concern.
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From: fluet@ee.ualberta.ca (Kevin Blaine Fluet)
Subject: Re: Why do we read PC mags?
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:33:55 GMT

gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:

>I recently resubscribed to PC Magazine, and after having received the
>January 26 issue, I must ask myself why.  The columnists are total
>morons, the hardware reviews are wrong, self-contradictory and biased,
>and the ads are not as good or plentiful as the Computer Shopper.

[stuff deleted]

>Sorry about the tirade.  However, I know that there are at least a 
>dozen readers of this bboard who could team up to produce a vastly
>superior journal.

I agree with you completely.  Even BYTE, which I used to consider an
excellent magazine, has become unreadable.  I haven't bought a computer
magazine for months, except for Computer Shopper, and even then I only
bought it for the ads (to compare mail-order prices).  I think part of the
'problem' may be that the various Usenet groups are much more informative
than any magazine (any info in a magazine is generally two months old--it
takes them that long to get an issue out), and that any time I see an
article in a magazine, it's already very old news to me.

Kevin Fluet
fluet@ee.ualberta.ca
From: cirop02@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David Isaacson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Pionex/Goldstar
Date: 7 Jan 1993 15:03:25 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I'm looking into buying a new 486 soon and can get a good price
wholesale for a Pionex (a divis. of Goldstar). Has anybody had any
experience with these units or with any other computers Goldstar has
made?

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From: slqn0@cc.usu.edu (Hoyt J. Heaton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: HELP! Trying to upgrade memory.
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:43:15 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

I am trying to upgrade my 386-40 from 4 megs of memory to 8 megs.
I have plugged the SIMMs into the motherboard, but the computer doesn't 
acknowledge their presence.  
My manual doesn't say anything about upgrading DRAM, and I can't figure out
how to change the configuration in my BIOS setup.

My system stats are:
  GA-386TS motherboard.  80386DX CACHE, with ISA bus.
  AMI BIOS.

The SIMMS are 1 X 9 70ns.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:21:37 GMT

In article <1ht90eINNkiboei0@hpscit.sc.hp.com> matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm) writes:

>This is very possibly wrong.  If this were the case, then the cost of test for
>the 16Mhz chip would be three times that of the 33Mhz chip (assuming 33,25,16
>speed grades for their microprocessors).  Every chip test insertion
>cost bucks, and the 25Mhz chip with two test insertions would cost Intel MORE
>than the 33Mhz chip!  One thing we used to do (when I worked at a semi. co.)
>was to test all chips to the highest speed grade, then mark the chips depending
>on the demand.  This only works if there is extremely high yield at the highest
>speed grade.  In Intel's case, they are probably yielding 100% at 33Mhz for the
>486 (for working chips). 


Well, the way I look at it is what is the opportunity cost of not
testing a 33MHz failure at 25 MHz? You could 1) throw it away or
2) test it at 25 MHz and sell it if it passes. 

Its a matter of which would be cheaper: to make another 25 MHz chip
from scratch _and_ test it or to test the reject. Testing the reject 
is cheaper, usually, depending on how many of the 33 MHz failures 
would pass at 25 MHz. 

Of course, if as you say, their yield is close to 100%, or the failures
at 33 MHz don't have much chance at passing at 25 MHz it would make sense
to just mark some of the 33 MHz parts as 25 MHz.





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From: frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-Madison SRC (608)877-2332,-2001(FAX))
Subject: FLOPTICAL DRIVE experience?
Reply-To: frigo@psl.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Physical Science Lab
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 17:37:54 GMT

Anyone purchased a floptical drive?  I've seen ads that say $300 will buy
a drive capable of 21MB w/ floptical and 1.44 MB magnetic.

Please e-mail to me.  Thank you.


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From: pm860605@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Peter J. McKinney)
Subject: Re: MAG 15 inch: anybody have one?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:32:25 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University

In article <1993Jan12.154511.11732@mlb.semi.harris.com> gbrooksh@comanche.ess.harris.com (Greg Brookshire) writes:
>From: gbrooksh@comanche.ess.harris.com (Greg Brookshire)
>Subject: MAG 15 inch: anybody have one?
>Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:45:11 GMT
>I am thinking about buying a MAG 15 inch flat screen monitor.  Judging from
>several ads and articles, it seems they are highly thought of, but I have
>never actually seen one.
>
>Does anybody out there have one?  And if so, what do you think of it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Greg
>
>---
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Greg Brookshire                                                   407-729-2464
>gbrooksh@su100l.ess.harris.com
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>

I tried three different MAG 15 monitors and returned each because of
terrible focus and pincusion problems.  I finally settled on the MAG 14S.
This has the Sony tube, which is much brighter, has a black background (not
gray) and is considerably sharper then the 15 inch tubes MAG was using.
The electronics are the same as the MAG 15 (very good) and we are very
happy with the the MAG 14S.  Good luck,

- Pete

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From: larryb@netcom.com (Laurence Badagliacca)
Subject: Re: AMI Enterprise III Mother boards
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:35:12 GMT

thomas@bnr.ca (Thomas S. Pangborn) writes:

>Does anyone have any information on the new VESA/EISA motherboard being put out by AMI?  Its called the Enterprise III.

>Any input would be helpful.

>Thanks,

>Thomas S. Pangborn
>==================
>pangborn@bnr.ca
>------------------

Contact Washburn & Co., distributors of AMI products: 800-836-8026.  I recently received enterprise III data sheet.  They could not quote availability or price
but thought price would be similar to enterprise II.

I have no financial intersest in Washburn & Co.

From: tomc@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Tom Carney)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:47:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Hard Drive IDS...any suggestions?
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

These are old Seagate drives.  Try their BBS at 408-438-8771.  It has lots
of detailed info on their products.

Cheers

Tom Carney