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From: esudh@warwick.ac.uk (Flint)
Subject: Mannesman Tally 905 Printers *HELP!!!! NEEDED*
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:50:20 GMT


Hallo all,

Having progressed from INT24 Failures (see previous postings) I know have a 
desperate need to produce output on an Mannesman Tally 905 Laser Printer.
The problem being it has to be either in landscape orientation or condensed
text.

The setup is the basic MT905 Printer which is HPL2 compatible.. or so it is
claimed in the manual...

However, disregarding the fact that there is no mention of control codes in 
the manual that came with the printer, I have managed to find a list of
HP Laserjet codes .. Quite an extensive list too..   ( One source is a 
popular publication available for 12 quid... )

Anyway, advised to try ESC & l 1 O   or as one source suggested using an R
in place of O (letter O)... I attempted to get a simple piece of text 
printed out in landscape mode..

The result? A horizontal tab, followed by the letter O. Most helpful.

I would be most grateful if someone out there who has experience of a MT905
could give me some advise on 

	1) How to obtain Landscape Orientation.
	   ( Preferably WITHOUT an additional cartridge)

	2) Alternatively how to produce condensed text..
	   (Without the need for another font Cartridge. Defaults only)

   Or   3) How to drive the printer in Graphics Mode
	   (Escape codes ?!  Any Public Domain drivers around?)

Any source code that you may have to do this job written in C (microsoft
preferred.. Conversions will  be made myself if needbe) would be most
welcome.

Infact, if someone could send details of the graphics modes anyway, that would
also be warmly received, as I have the reason to believe that the default
ROMAN-8 font set has no box drawing characters...

I realise that it would probably be far easier to purchase another cartridge 
etc etc.. But for financial and timescale problems, this solution is not 
practical.  It would also restrict the use of the database system being
written if such a cartridge became a requirement...

Many Thanks in Advance

Ian Coggins
Computer Systems Engineer 
Warwick University



Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Snow with Paradise video card
Reply-To: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:17:02 GMT

In regards to the "snow" problem with the Paradise (or virtually any card)
the permanent solution is to replace the RAMDAC with an equivalent RAMDAC
preferably of a different brand.  The way some older RAMDACS handle color
cycling causes "snow" to appear.  Just make sure the speed rating of the
replacement RAMDAC is the same speed or higher.

On most paradise cards, the RAMDAC is a socketed 28-pin DIP package which
looks like a ROM chip, only without the label tape on it.
If the chip isn't socketed (most are), then you're out of luck.  Don't
try to desolder one of those multilayer jobs...you'll usually regret it.

By the way, for people whose video cards seem to have these ugly alternating
light-dark thin vertical stripes on the screen, a RAMDAC replacement will
generally solve that problem as well.

Alex
AJB8886@RITVAX.RIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Subject: Re: Sony CPD 1302 Monitor Emits High Pitched Noise
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:16:38 GMT

Neon@cup.portal.com (Anthony Joseph Bruder) writes:
>We're talking about 15 KHz or may be 15.5.  I remember as a boy when TV's
>usually came as floor furnature, I could tell that the TV was on in the 
>next room even with the sound off. Nobody else seemed to hear it.
>So now I don't know whether I'm deaf or flyback xformers have improved.
>Might be both! ;-)

Yah, probably both :-)  I read a news item a while back about a study of
the effects of monitor "whine".  Women and younger men can hear the 15.75KHz
squeal very well, and apparently it has the same effect on women as hearing
a baby's cry for help.  Thus, said this study, it might explain A) why most
women didn't like early computers and B) that the stress caused by the sound
contributed to miscarriages usually blamed on VDT "radiation".

Whether that's true or not, I don't know.  But the study's solution was
to use higher freq monitors (eg: VGA 30Khz... beyond normal hearing).

>I don't think it necessarily means the monitor will go soon.

I don't think so either.  I vaguely recall someone recommending that a bead
of putty be run down the edges to try to dampen out the vibration.  Me,
I just whack the monitor :-)

kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cooper@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Bruce Cooper)
Subject: MFM hard disk config
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 03:21:24 GMT


I Have a question about configuring a Hard Disk I own.  It is a
Miniscribe Model MS8425XT Hard disk, the stats are listed below:

Size (formatted) 21.4 MB
Half Height, 3.5 in wide
2 Platters, 4 Heads, 615 Cylenders
MFM recording method
68 ms access time.

What I want to know is.  What are the jumpers on the bottom supposed to
do.  I want to find the one which sets it up as secondary, But knowing
what all of them do would be handy.

Thanks,
	Bruce Cooper
	Email: cooper@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au
	
From: deanc@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Dean Cashen)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:34:20 GMT
Subject: Re: good 14" monitors ?
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware


   My 2 cents:  The days of the 14" monitor are probably numbered, what
with the adoption of GUI's; 14" just doesn't give you much room to work
with.  I feel strongly that you should get the best monitor you can find.
Kinda like setting up a nice stereo system, invest in the best speakers
you can afford, because, what it all comes down to is that it's the *speakers*
you hear.  More so than the rest of the system (this is a generalization; 
exceptions abound).  With a PC, the screen is what you'll be staring at
day in and day out.  And, with OS/2, I think you'd relish the extra screen
space and resolution a larger monitor offers.  Get as good a one as you 
can afford.

   Which leads me to your point; money is tight, and you have to
prioritize.  I can't tell you that a 17" monitor is worth more than
an extra 200MB of disk, or 33MHz vs. 50MHz.  I'd put the extra money
into the monitor over disk space; you can always add another disk, for
not too much money, while you have to buy an entirely new monitor to
upgrade; there's no "add on" down the road.

   On the other hand, it seems that prices for the larger monitors are
dropping somewhat, so it may be wise to wait.

  There.  Did I cover all the possible answers?  Yes, get the bigger
monitor -- bigger, even, than the 15".  And, No, get the smaller monitor
because the prices may drop in a year or two.  

Yeah, I think that covers it. . . .  :)

(Get the bigger monitor)

Dean Cashen
-- Boise

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: erich@eye.com (Eric Haines)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Keyboards - what's reliable?  Gateway's failed me...
Summary: I need to buy a new one; what's good?
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:24:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: eye.1992Aug19.132458.7201
Distribution: na
Organization: 3D/EYE, Inc.  Ithaca, NY

My Gateway keyboard, about 1 & 1/2 years old, has a space bar that is dying.
It pushes down and tends to stay down, and while in the down position other
keys tend to send an extra space here and there.  I talked with a Gateway rep
who said "try lubricating it" [I did, and that didn't work] and "I can sell
you a new keyboard for $65".  I'd rather not buy another keyboard from
Gateway, since I use the computer maybe 4 hours a week and their space bar
just didn't last.

So, what's a good, reliable keyboard?  I like function keys along the top,
having the keyboard set up pretty much the same as Gateway is a plus, and I
want something that'll last more than a year and a half.  It doesn't have to
be able to withstand a nuclear blast, just normal wear.  Low price and a good
warranty are plusses.

Please email me and I'll summarize.

Many thanks, I haven't a clue how to get this information in any good way (I
occasionally see recommendations in Byte by Pournelle on this topic, but _you_
try combing through past issues in search of specific information!).

Eric Haines  erich@eye.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: stevenh@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (steven.t.heinsius)
Subject: Re: Write protected HARD DRIVE???
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:03:27 GMT

If i recall you can use the "Attrib" command to prevent/change
writing to the autoexe on the "c" drive.
I had to remove some lines from my autoexec.bat file
so i had to change it "from read-only" ===> edit ===> "read only".

NOTE
There is some stuff in the files(either config.sys
or autoexec.bat) on c that if you
change your stacker drive "d" is gone/mush/dead.....
Steve
------------------------

From article <Bt3qBF.1HB@news.udel.edu>, by jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch):
> 
>  My father called me up yesterday and told me that his "stacked"
>  hard drive (c:) is *write protected*!  What is this?
>  How can he remedy this situation?  Apparently, d: is still OK.
> 
>  Any info appreciated.
> 
> 
>        X-------------------+--------------+-----------------------X
>        |  |   |\       |>jon@chopin.udel.edu<|  "For my 2 cents,  |
>        | \|on |/eutsch |>>-----------------<<|  I'd pay a dollar" |
>        X------+--------------------+--------------------+---------X
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
From: dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH)
Subject: Mouse Cursor
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 08:51:28 GMT

I would like some information regarding setting the mouse cursor in graphics mode on the pc.  I know you can use function 9h, or set up a user defined
mask in unser definable function 12.  I am not sure how to set up these 
masks.  I have some knowledge in Assembly.  As well, does anybody know
how to COPY_PUT graphic lines over the mouse cursor itself.  I am having
trouble with the computer drawing lines over the cursor.  I will draw a
line but when I move the cursor away, the line goes away.  

Please E-Mail me.  Thanks in advance.


-- 
 
.............................................
: Bikram Dhaliwal (dhaliwa@civ.toronto.edu) : 
: Oakville        (dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu) :
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From: xde@xtxde.UUCP (Dave Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Sony CPD 1302 Monitor Emits High Pitched Noise
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:59:51 CDT
Organization: Not

In article <63824@cup.portal.com> (Anthony Joseph Bruder) writes:
(Other deleted)
> 
> We're talking about 15 KHz or may be 15.5.  I remember as a boy when TV's
> usually came as floor furnature, I could tell that the TV was on in the 
> next room even with the sound off. Nobody else seemed to hear it.
> So now I don't know whether I'm deaf or flyback xformers have improved.
> Might be both! ;-)
> I don't think it necessarily means the monitor will go soon.
> 
> Tony Bruder - neon@cup.portal.com

I have had this on my 1084 for probably 3 years now. It probably happens 
once a week for maybe 5 or 10 minutes. I don't know if it the same type of
problem, but nothing has happened to the monitor or my hearing yet.(I hope
it won't)

-- 

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   - Dave Evans   ...!vpnet.chi.il.us!xtxde!xde - Insert something here -
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From: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SpeedSTAR 24X performance?
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:09:40 GMT
Reply-To: pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Originator: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com

david.e.wexelblat (dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com) writes:
>
>My advise to you is to trade in your SpeedStar 24 on an Orchid ProDesigner
>IIs.  I can't give any time tables on when X386 1.2E will support the
>24 and 24X, because we have not yet been able to obtain the information
>we need from Diamond.

The SpeedSTAR 24 and Orchid ProDesigner IIs both use the Tseng ET4000 chip.
Trading one in for the other is silly.
-- 
Paul Close	     pdc@sgi.com	   ...!{ames, decwrl, uunet}!sgi!pdc

			No fate but that we make
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: Re: Diamond SpeedStar Stealth 24
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 15:16:15 GMT


In a previous article, wity@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda) says:

>>I think the board we've been talking about is the Diamond Speedtar 24X,
>>which is out now and costs $180.  Diamond is claiming higher WinMarks
>>for it than for the Stealth.  Also, it has an 800x600x32K mode which
>>the Stealth 24 will lack, and fast DOS vga performance, which the
>>S3 boards lack.  The 24X uses the Western Digital 9031 GUI accelerator
>>chip unlike the plain 24 which uses the Tseng ET4000.
>>
>>------------
>>Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
>>Intergraph Corporation                                  
>>bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
>
>
>According to "High Color" magazine (July/August 92), the Stealth 24 is based on
>S3's fast 86C911 chip.  That's the reason why I thought Stealth 24 is different
>from the SpeedStar 24X.  Is the 86C911 chip the same as 9031?
>
>-Wity-


No.

The 86C911 is made by S3.  The 9031 is made by western digital, the people
who made the at one time popular paradise vga card.  The 9031 is holds its
own with the 86C911 but is much less expensive.  At least that is what I've 
gathered from reading this group.
From: amn@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Anthony Naggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Disgnostic the provides POST-type error codes???
Date: 20 Aug 92 00:20:06 GMT
Organization: Brighton Polytechnic, England
Bcc: bp112@Cleveland.Freenet.edu
Reply-Yo: amn@vms.brighton.ac.uk

> A friend of mine has a sick computer... I have a great book called Que's
> Upgrading and Repairing PCs [unsolicited plug!], that lists all of the
> IBM POST and Diagnostic Error Codes.  The problem is, the only way I can
> see these codes is by using IBM's Advanced Diagnostics diskette, which
> probably costs more than I want to pay.  My question is... Does anyone
> know of a freeware/shareware program that will display these codes??  If
> so, could they provide me with the ftp site that has it (or other means
> of getting it)?  Any help would be appreciated!
>
> BTW, the error is in the floppy drive/controller, so it is not a fatal
> error, that is why the BIOS won't disply it on bootup!

POST means Power On Self Test, so if your error is not reported at power up
it is a POST error!

Sorry this isn't very helpful, but I think you were suffering some confusion.
-- 
Anthony Naggs                    |  MAN I say what it occurs to me to say when
Janet:    amn@uk.ac.brighton.vms |      I think I hear people say things.
    or    xa329@uk.ac.city       |      More I cannot say.
Internet: amn@vms.brighton.ac.uk |
       or xa329@city.ac.uk)      |  (from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
From: ray@ole.cdac.com (Ray Berry)
Subject: Re: IBM Parallel port Bi_Directional
Organization: Cascade Design Automation
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 08:52:34 GMT

jlewis@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:

>I need information on the IBM PC,XT,AT,etc. parallel ports.  I know that
>they can be made bidirectional but can't find any information on this.
>Does anyone know (or have) any information?  I need pinouts, pin explanations
>, timing, software examples, software direction controls, etc....

    This has been discussed twice that I know of:

1.  "Magic in the Real World- Tools for Quick System Construction", Bruce
     Eckel, Micro Cornucopia, Nov/Dec '87, Issue # 38.

2.  "Adapting the Parallel Port for Bidirectional Communication", Ross M.
     Greenberg, Microsoft System Journal, September 1990 Vol 5 No 5.

-- 
Ray Berry  kb7ht  ray@ole.UUCP  73407.3152@compuserve.com  /* inquire within */
From: s870694@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Alfred Porziella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP : 486sx-25 cpu gets HOT, real HOT!
Date: 21 Aug 92 14:13:32 GMT


The 486sx-25 CPU in my system (Compumate - Opti chipset) gets so hot that
I can hardly touch it! (even after a few minutes!).

Now it is a genuine 25MHz chip as it has a -25 printed on the CPU, but
is it really supposed to get that hot? I seriously doubt the reliability
of the damn thing. I'd like to know how hot a 33 or 50MHz board gets!

Should I get one of those mini-fans or some kind of heatsink? It's impossible
to keep my finger on the cpu for more several seconds.
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From: sasjaa@morticia.unx.sas.com (James Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Mouse Cursor
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:01:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasjaa@morticia.unx.sas.com


In article <1992Aug21.012808.14991@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, dernis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
|> In article <Bt2J9u.2t4@ecf.toronto.edu>, dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.ed
|> u (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH) writes:
|> >I am having 
|> >trouble with the computer drawing lines over the cursor.  I will draw a
|> >line but when I move the cursor away, the line goes away.  
|> >
|> I am having a similar problem with the text cursor.  When I write
|> under the cursor, either with BIOS or directly, moving the mouse, reveals 
|> what was previously there.  Also scrolling with BIOS moves the mouse
|> cursor, actually makes a copy deleting the cursor which appears when
|> I move the mouse.
|> 
The usual method (or at least the one I use :-)) is to turn the cursor off
while you write or draw then turn it on again when you want to use it.


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|James Adams                          |  I am going as a Homicidal Maniac.  |
|  sasjaa@unx.sas.com                 |  They look like anybody else.       |
|                                     |        Wednesday Addams             |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.arch
From: willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore)
Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:25:50 GMT

exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor) writes:
>Actually , our friend from Intel can correct me if I'm wrong, but my 
>understanding is that the device you are describing is the OverDrive chip.

>The DX2 does not go in a "free slot", it is pin compatible with a regular 
>old DX chip.  I have manuals from Intel which flat out state this.  Document 
>numbers available on request.
>                                                       - D Adams
>  - Patrick Taylor

Ok, let me see if I have this right.  The 486DX has the cpu core with
an fpu and an 8K I/D cache on one chip.  The 486SX used to be 486DXs
which had fpu's which failed to pass test, but are now a die that is
specific only to them.  The 486DX and 486SX are not pin compatible.
The 486DX2 is an internally clock doubled processor which is otherwise
just like a 486DX of half the processor speed.

Next comes the RapidCad which (I guess) is a 486DX in a 386DX disguise.
My guess is that there is a modified 486DX in the 386DX's place and
some kind of dongle in the 387 socket.  I'm not sure on this one at all.

Finally there is the OverDrive chip, which, as I understand (read guess),
is a DX2 in a special socket that is supposed to be included on 486SX
motherboards?  Of this last part, I am least sure.  

Does anybody know for sure what all these chips are?  Someone from Intel?
Dennis, maybe?

--David Willmore
willmore@iastate.edu 
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From: eric@geoblue.gcn.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Are Seagate drives any good ?
Date: 18 Aug 92 22:19:58 GMT
Organization: Geosciences Computing Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

In article <1992Aug12.134817.27714@ariel.ec.usf.edu> fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)) writes:
>
>
>Recently I had a local computer dealer  try to convince me that Seagate
>drives are not worth the metal they're built with.
>
>Have any of you lived through personal experiences that substantiates
>this dealers claim ?

	No. I have had my Seagate hard sk for about 4 years.
    It works good as new.. No crashes, bad sectors, etc...

							eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: Diamond SpeedStar Stealth 24
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:31:15 GMT

wity@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda) writes:


>I've been reading lots of posting about the SpeedStar 24.
>I think it would be better to wait for the Stealth 24, which is supposed to
>be out this fall.  The list price is $445.

>-Wity-

I think the board we've been talking about is the Diamond Speedtar 24X,
which is out now and costs $180.  Diamond is claiming higher WinMarks
for it than for the Stealth.  Also, it has an 800x600x32K mode which
the Stealth 24 will lack, and fast DOS vga performance, which the
S3 boards lack.  The 24X uses the Western Digital 9031 GUI accelerator
chip unlike the plain 24 which uses the Tseng ET4000.

------------
Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rmartin@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Martin)
Subject: help
Summary: Help! I wanna do animation!
Keywords: ibm, graphics
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:51:37 GMT

okay. this is what i was planning to get (as a startup)...and I want
some advice (if you would be so kind).
486dx33 64k ramcache
105 meg ide hard drive
16 bit 1:1 floppy controller
4 megs ram
trident card ~16 bit with one meg
TTX 1450 svga .28 dpi (non interleave)
i want fast without a lot of cash . (im pretty much computer illiterate..)
I need help!! this system (with dos 5.0, logitech mouse and lots o ports  
is a steal.(up here in canada)
my point is i want to start up with Animator- then graduate to animator Pro
then (years later) to 3d studio. want kinda speed minimums shopuld i get
for the hard drive, simms, monitor, video card, etc.. i dont need 16.7
million colors yet. help me please. Im drowning in a world of multimedia
hype and speculation. thank you kindly...


Email my friend at rmartin@umanitoba.ca


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